Terms I
Terms II
Terms III
Terms IV
Terms V
100
Intellectual movement of the Renaissance focusing on education and classical learning.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
A person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers.
Who was a creole?
100
Artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a three-dimensional effect.
What is perspective?
100
Payment for war damages
What are reparations?
100
Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s.
Who were conquistadors?
200
An agreement to stop fighting
What is an armistice?
200
Royal palace of Louis XIV
What is Versailles?
200
Recognition that people share a common language, culture, and history.
What is nationalism?
200
An economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available.
What is inflation?
200
Nationalist movement that worked for unification of Italy.
What was Risorgimento?
300
Division into pieces
What is partition?
300
A person who left France after the fall of Louis XVI and later returned.
Who was an emigre?
300
The middle-class
What is the bourgeoisie?
300
A French legal term that indicates a person's class based on property ownership and ancestral rights and customs.
What is an estate?
300
Money taken through taxes.
What is revenue?
400
An economic system that stresses increasing national wealth by selling more to other nations than buying from them.
What is mercantilism?
400
Governor of several countries or provinces who ruled as the representative of the monarch.
Who was a viceroy?
400
Final demand made with a threat to break off dealings or use force if not accepted.
What is an ultimatum?
400
Person who provides financial support for the arts.
Who is a patron?
400
Means self-rule
What is autonomy?
500
Device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading.
What is the guillotine?
500
Right the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans.
What is encomienda?
500
Giving in to demands of an aggressor in exchange for peace.
What is appeasement?
500
Hitler's policy of killing European Jews and other considered "unfit to live."
What is the Holocaust?
500
An agreement that allows citizens of one country who live in another country to be governed by the laws of their own land.
What is extraterritoriality?
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