| Term | Definition |
|---|
| humanism | intelectual movement that focused on education of classical culture |
| Printing Press | a machine for priting made by Guttenburg |
| Indulgences | something granted as a favor or sacrifice for the Roman Catholic Church pardon for sins comitted during a persons lifetime |
| Middle Passage | part of the triangular trade were the slaves were transported from Africa to America |
| Christianity | christian religion founded on life and teachings believing in one god |
| Spanish Ardmada | fleet sent ffrom Spain against England by Philip II in 1588 and later defeated by English Navy |
| Roundheads | supporters of the Parliament |
| Cavailers | mounted soliders;adrent of Charles I |
| Philosophes | writers and thinkers of the French Enlightment |
| First estate | clergy;religious leaders who were in charge of the Church; collected rent from peasants. |
| Second Estate | nobles;collecteed rent from peasants;lived on manors which they had inherited. |
| Third Estate | peasants;Members of this estate had few rights, and little political power;required to pay a 10% tithing to the Church, dues to their feudal lord, and a land tax to the king |
| Continential System | foreign policy of Napoleon in his struggle aganist Napoleonic Wars;conquered European Majors |
| Mercantalism | economic theory that holds the prosperity of a nation dependent upon supply of capital |
| Ottoman Empire | led by turkey and succeded by Republic of Turkey who navigated from Central Asia |
| Safavid Empire | turkish speaking Muslims dynasty of Shia Empire |
| Islam | a religious faith of Muslims found by the phropet Muhammad |
| Enclosure Movement | division or consilidation of communical lands in Western Europe into carefully delineated and indvidually owned from plots of modern times |
| Laissez-Faire | doctrine that on economic system functions best when there's no interference by government |
| Capitalism | a social system based on recognition of individual human rights including property rights in which is privately owned |
| Socialism | a system of socual oraganization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and central of the means production of capital, land, etc. |
| Communism | holding of all property in common actual ownership being ascribed to community |
| Hinduism | a religion of India based on the caste stem with reincarcination |
| Buddhism | a religion of India by Buddha holding that life is full of suffering caused by rebirth and desire |
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