early modern era part 1 vocab

Honors World History

Early Modern Era, Part I

Transformation in Europe and the Americas Vocabulary


Exploration and Colonization

Mercantilism

Vasco da Gama

Christopher Columbus

Hacienda

Viceroys

Columbian Exchange

Depopulation

Joint-stock company

Tariffs

“Gold, God, Glory”

Encomienda System

Hernan Cortes

Francisco Pizarro

Treaty of Tordesillas

Moctezuma

Atahualpa

Mestizos

Peninsulares

Quinto real (tax)

Potosi (colony)

Cash crops

Jamestown (colony)

Taino

Volta do mar

Reconquista

Indentured servants


Reading: Ch. 23 and 25 in Traditions and Encounters


Transformation in Europe

Council of Trent

Martin Luther

Protestant Reformation

John Calvin

Catholic Reformation

Jesuits

Absolutism

Peter the Great

Louis XIV of France

Constitutionalism

Henry VIII

Nation-state

Scientific Revolution

Nicolaus Copernicus

Isaac Newton

Galileo Galilei

Johannes Kepler

Putting out system

John Locke

Voltaire

Adam Smith

Natural Law

Capitalism

Deism

Enlightenment

Printing press

Renaissance

Humanism


Reading:  Ch. 24 in Traditions and Encounters