World History- Toward a New World
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Manor | agricultural estate run by a lord and worked by peasants |
| Serfs | peasants bound to the land on which they were born/worked |
| Money Economy | an economic system based on money rather than barter |
| Commercial Capitalism | economic system in which people invest in trade or goods to make profits |
| Guilds | business associations |
| Heresy | the denial of basic church doctrines |
| Inquisition | holy office |
| Sacraments | Christian rites |
| Theology | the study of religion and god |
| Black Death | Bubonic plague |
| Great Schism | The final split between the eastern and western churches in the year 1054. |
| Avignon | a city in France |
| New Monarchies | reult of attempts made to reestablish centralized power |
| Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America |
| Toltec | invaded central Mexico from the north. |
| Chichen Itza | Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico |
| Aztec | an early civilization in the valley of mexico |
| Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital |
| Herman Cortes | Spanish soldier who conquered the Aztecs |
| Montezuma | Aztec Emperor |
| Inca | Founders of South America's greatest early civilization |
| Epidemic | a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease |
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