Age of Exploration
Person who travels to known lands.
Explorer
Belief that God gave the king the right to rule.
Divine Right
This thinker believed people are born with Natural Rights.
John Locke
When machines replace hand-made goods.
Industrialization
Building up strong armies and weapons.
Militarism
Spanish conqueror of the Americas.
Conquistador
When one leader controls the whole government.
Centralized power.
These are the three natural rights according to Locke.
Life, liberty, and property.
Social classes in France (1st: clergy, 2nd: nobles, 3rd: everyone else).
Estate System
Information used to shape people’s beliefs, often seen on posters, pamphlets, and newspapers.
Propaganda
Movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
Columbian Exchange
King or queen with total power.
Absolute Monarch
When the government is divided into branches, the system is called ______.
Separation of Powers
People moving to the city for jobs led to ____________.
Urbanization
“Lightning war”; fast, surprise attacks used by Germany.
Blitzkrieg
Tools and skills for traveling across water (compass, sexton, maps).
Navigation
This king built the Palace of Versailles.
King Louis XIV
Agreement between people and government.
Social Contract
Crowded apartment where poor workers lived.
Tenements
A leader with complete power is called a ____________.
Hint: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini
Dictator
This group of people believed the white explorers were gods.
Aztec
This monarch had 6 wives.
King Henry VIII
Thomas Hobbes
Machine that powered factories and trains.
Steam Engine
Name the main countries that fought on behalf of the Axis Powers in WWII.
Germany, Italy, Japan