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20 Cards in this Set
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Alexis de touqville |
was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America |
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Institutes of christian Religion |
John Calvins Book |
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Encomiendas |
a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area. |
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Heliocentric View |
Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System |
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Mestizos |
a person of combined European and Native American descent |
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John Locke |
was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism" |
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The Philosophes |
They strongly endorsed progress and tolerance, and distrusted organized religion (most were deists) and feudal institutions.[2] They faded away after the French Revolution reached a violent stage in 1793. |
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Mita System |
in colonial Spanish America, a system by which the crown allowed certaincolonists to recruit Indians for forced labour |
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Middle Passage |
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies |
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George Fox |
English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. |
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Wesley Brothers |
Charles Wesley and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism |
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Denis Diderot |
prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor and contributor to the Encyclopédie |
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Bourbon Dynasty |
a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily. |
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Wealth Nations |
is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith |
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Candide |
is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. |
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George III |
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries |
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Dec Of Independence |
The fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. |
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Continental Congress |
was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution |
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Thomas Jefferson |
American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States |
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Colmbian Exchange |
refers to the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres |
