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serfs
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p. 424
During the Middle Ages, serfs were agricultural laborers who worked and lived on a plot of land granted to them by a lord to whom they owed a certain portion of their crops. They could not leave the land, but they had certain legal rights that were denied to slaves. |
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absolutism
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p. 427
A form of government in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in which the ruler possessed complete and unrivaled power. |
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St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
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p. 427
A surprise attack that the French monarchy launched (August 24, 1572) on Protestants who had gathered in Paris to celebrate the wedding of a daughter of queen regent Catherine de Medicis to Henry of Navarre, a Protestant leader. |
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Fronde
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p. 430
A series of popular uprisings against the French crown between 1649 and 1653. The clashes threatened the government of the new king, Louis XIV, but were ultimately unsuccessful. |
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Dutch East India Company
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p. 445
Chartered in 1602 and granted a monopoly over trade with Asia by the States-General of the Netherlands, this multinational organization generated strong revenues for its stockholders and acted as a quasi-governmental agency, waging war, negotiating treaties, and establishing overseas colonies. |
