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Final for Global Education
Chapter 5 Sec 3 - Sec 5, 10, 12, 13, 17
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05/20/2007

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paterfamilias
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the head male
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insulae
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apartment blocks where poor people lived, which may be 6 stories high
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procurator
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a Roman officals who was in charge of a province
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New Testament
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the second part of the Chirstian Bible
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clergy
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the church leaders
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laity
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the regular church members
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plague
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an epidemic disease
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inflation
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a rapid increase in prices
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manor
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an argircultural estate run by a lord and worked by peasants
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serfs
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peasants legallly bound to the land
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money economy
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an economic system based on money not barter
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commericial capitalism
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an econmic system in which people invested in trade and goods in order to make profits
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masterpiece
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a finsished piece made by a journeymen in their craft
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lay investiture
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the practice by which secular rulers both close nominees to church offieces and gave them the symbols of their office
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interdict
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a decree by the pope that forbade priest to give the sacraments of the church to the people
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sacraments
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Christian rites
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heresy
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the denial of the basic Church doctrines
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inquisition
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Holy Office
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relics
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bones of siants or objects connected with saints that were considered worth of worship becuase they provided link between the earthly world and God
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Theology
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the study of the religion and God
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scholasticism
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philosophical and theological system that infulenced the study of theology in universities
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vernacular
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the language of everday speech in a particular region
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Black
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the most devastating nautral disaster in European history
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anti-semitism
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hostility toward Jews
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Great Schism
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a split in the Catholic chruch that lasted from 1378 to 1418 during which there was a rival between popes
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taille
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an annual direct tax
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new monarchies
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reestablished states
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urban society
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Renaissance Italy was largely an __________ _____________.
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secular
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worldly
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mercenaries
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soldiers who sold their services to the highest bidder
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dowry
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a sum of money given by the wife's family to the husband upon marriage
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humanism
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based on the study fo the classics,the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
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fresco
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a painting done on fresh, wet plaster iwht water-based paints
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Christiam humanism
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Northern Renaissance humanism
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salvation
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acceptance into Heaven
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indulgence
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release from all or part of the punishment for sin
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predestination
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the "eternal decree"
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annul
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declare invalid
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conquistadors
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individuals wose guns and determination broguth them incredible success
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colony
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a settlement of people living in a new territory
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mercantilism
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a set of principles that ted economic thought in the seventeenth century
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balance of trade
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the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time
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plantations
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large agricultural estates
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trianular trade
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a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, and the American continents
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Middle Passage
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the middle portion of th triangular trade route
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mainland states
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part of the continent, as distinguished from penninsular or offshore islands
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bureaucracy
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a body of nonelective government officials
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geocentric
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it places Earth at the center of the universe
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Ptolemaic system
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the universe is a series of concentril spheres
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heliocentric
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sun-centered
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universal law of graviation
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law explains why the planetary bodies do ont go off in straight lines
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rationalism
Definition
system of thogust is based on belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
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scientific method
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systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
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inductive reasoning
Definition
the doctrine that seientists should proceed from the particular to the general by making systematic observations and carefully organized ezperiments to test bypotheses or theories
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separation of powers
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in this separation, the executive, legislative, and judical pwers of the gov. limit and control each other ina system of checks and balances
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deism
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and 18th century relgious philosophy based on reason and natural law
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laissez-faire
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"to let (people) do (what they want)"
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social contract
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an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will
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salon
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the elegant drawing rooms of the weathly
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rococo
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a new artistic style
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enlightened absolutism
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a new type of monarchy that emerged in the alte 18th century
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mestizos
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the offspring of euopeans and native americans
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mulattoes
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the offspring of Africans and Europeans
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federal system
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a constitution proposed in which power would be shared between the national and state gov.
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