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absolutism
[ab-suh-loo-tiz-uhm] |
system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
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armada
[ahr-mah-duh, -mey-] |
fleet of warships
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capitalism
[kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] |
economic system in which there is free enterprise, individual profit, and ownership of property
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colonize
[kol-uh-nahyz] |
distant land being settled but still under the control of its native country
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conquistador
[kon-kwis-tuh-dawr] |
name given to the Spanish explorers of the New World
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demarcation
[dee-mahr-key-shuhn] |
boundary or line of separation
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inflation
[in-fley-shuhn] |
general rise in the cost of goods, making a decline in purchasing power
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inquisition
[in-kwuh-zish-uhn, ing-] |
judicial institution established to find heretics and punish them
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mercantilism
[mur-kuhn-ti-liz-uhm, -tee-, -tahy-] |
economic theory in which the government closely regulates the control of businesses in colonies to increase their own wealth
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viceroy
[vahys-roi] |
someone who rules a colony on behalf of a monarch of another country
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