5.1 The First Global Age

capitalism

a competitive economic system in which products and production means are owned by individuals or private groups

divination

the practice of trying to tell the future or gain knowledge through spiritual or magical means

economic

of or pertaining to the production and distribution of goods, wealth, and services

enslave

to force another person into slavery or to be in a condition of bondage

labor

the expenditure of physical and mental effort in the performance of work 

Columbian Exchange

The transfer of plants, animals, people, ideas, and diseases between the Americas and the rest of the world after 1492

missionary

a person desiring to convert others to a principle or set of beliefs

resistance

the act of refusing to comply with something, or the act of acting to prevent or counter something