Whap key term 4 Flashcards
A device used for transferring text or graphics. Invented in Europe 1450 used to print German bible
Printing press
The belief a rulers authority comes from god
Divine right
The selling of gods forgiveness
Indulgences
Gave settlers the right to tax or force local Native American to do labor.
Encomienda system
Brought enslaved from Africa to Merica
Middle passage
The semi feudal Japanese government which was taken down by the Meiji reformation
Tokugawa shogunate
A company made up of shareholders that would contribute to the companies funds and in return received the profits and debt.
Joint stock company
Government charted joint stock company that controlled the spice trade.
Dutch East India company
A joint stock company that controlled the political, social and economic life in India
British East Indian company
Economic policy which nation sought to increase their wealth and power through obtaining large amount of sliver and gold and selling more then they bought.
Mercantilism
Representatives of Spanish monarchy in Spains colonial empire
Viceroys
Spanish born people who came to Latin America, were the highest class
Peninsulares
Japanese poem with 5-7-5
Haiku
A renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied text to figure out human potential and achievements
Humanism
17th-18th century movement which advocated the use of reason in reappraisal of accepted ideas and some institutions.
Enlightenment
The rule of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558-1603
Elizabethan era
Organization of priest that punished anyone practicing something different from Roman catholism
Spanish Inquisition
European war with resulted in catholic Holy Roman Empire imposing Catholicism on Protestant European countries
Thirty years’ war
An artist, scientist inventor and visionary during the renaissance era
Leonardo da Vinci
15th century printer who was the first to use a press
Johannes Gutenberg
Polition during the renaissance era who wrote the prince, a work on the ethics and government that argued positions should engage in evil when nessersery
Machiavelli
English poet and screenwriter
William Shakespeare
Leading figure in scientific revolution who defined the laws of physics
Sir Issac newton
Prince of Portugal who established a navigation school
Prince Henry the navigator
17th century English enlightenment philosopher who opposed the divine right of kings
John locke
French philosopher who believed the freedom of speech is the best weapon
Voltaire
Spanish explorer who accidentally found merica
Christopher Columbus
A Spanish conquistador who drafted the aztacs and conquered mexico
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca
Francisco Pizarro
African kingdoms that converted to christianity and participated in lucrative trans Atlantic slave trade
Kongo and Angola