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The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
What is Culture?
The state of being saved (that is, going to heaven) through faith alone or through faith and good works.
What is Salvation?
A release from all or part of punishment for sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory after death.
What is Indulgence?
a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver
What is Mercantilism?
a rapid increase in prices.
What is Inflation?
Believing in one God.
Christianity
Judaism
Jewish
What is Monotheism?
A leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
What is a Conquistador?
The independence of a state combined with the right and power of regulating itself without foreign interference.
What is National Sovereignty?
Isolationist: a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations.
What is Isolationist?
rights with which all humans are born, including the rights to life, liberty, and property.
What is Natural Rights?
A form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote.
What is a Republic?
The language of everyday speech in a particular region.
What is Vernacular?
Japan’s outcast class whose way of life was strictly regulated by the Tokugawa.
What is ETA?
Earth-centered; a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth
What is Geocentric?
the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people.
What is a Bourgeoisie?
Political disorder; lawlessness.
What is an Anarchy?
Indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration.
What is Secularization?
a political system in which a ruler holds total power.
What is Absolutism?
an administrative organization that relies on non-elective officials and regular procedures.
What is a Bureaucracy?
an annual direct tax, usually on land or property, that provided a regular source of income for the French monarchy.
What is a Taille?
A painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints.
What is Fresco?
Colony: a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.
What is a Colony?
“great names”; the head of noble families in Japan who controlled vast landed estates and relied on samurai for protection.
What is Daimyo?
a system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers.
What is Enlightened Absolutism?
the concept proposed by Rousseau that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will, and all individuals should be forced to abide by the general will since it represents what is best for the entire community.
What is a Social Contact?