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colony |
a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control |
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conquistador |
a spanish conqueror of the Americas |
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mercantilism |
a set of priciples that dominated economic though in the seventeenth century, it held the the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver |
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predestination |
the belief that god has determined in advance who will be saved (the elect) and who will be damned (the reprobate) |
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middle passage |
the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route. |
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rebirth |
the recanation of an individual's soul in a different from after death |
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annul |
declaare invalid |
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mainland states |
part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands |
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balance of trade |
the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time |
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bureaucracy |
the diffrence in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time |
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fresco |
a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints |
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indulgence |
a release from all or parts of punishment for sin by the catholic church, reducion time in purgatory after death |
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salvation |
a state of being saved (that is going to heaven) through faith alone of through faith nd good works. |
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humanism |
an intelectual movement of the Renaissance based on the story of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history |
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plantation |
a large agricultural estate |
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moluccas |
spice islands known by the europeans |
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council of trent |
one of three chief pillars of the cathilic Reformation |
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prespective |
create the illusion of three dimension, instead of making something look flat |
