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31 Cards in this Set
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What existed when more wealth flowed into the nation than was paid out
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Positive balance of payments
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The religion of the Muslims
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Islam
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A revolt against the Catholic Church
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Reformation
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A conqueror
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Conquistador
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Those who revolted against the Catholic Church
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Protestants
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The time of the middle ages between 500-1500
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Medieval
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Spiritual community that embraced most of Europe
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Christendom
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A business arrangement that made it possible to accumulate large amounts of money for investment
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Joint- Stock Company
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Money for investment
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capital
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rebirth
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Renaissance
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double - rigged ship
It could sail into the wind and could sail with the wind at its back |
Caravel
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A movement to drive the Moors from Spain
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Reconquista
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Spanish policy where Spanish colonists promised to convert and protect the indians in return for their labor of tribute
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Encomienda System
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Spain's North American and Carribean territories
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New spain
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North African Muslims
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Moors
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The transfer of plants, animals, and disease from one hemisphere to another
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Columbian exchange
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Members of the lower order of the nobility
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Hidalgos
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A Govenor
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Viceroy
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An artificial community that made indians tenants and not slaves
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haciendas
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People of white and indian mixed ancestory in Mexico
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Mestizos
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Economic policy based on state monopoly of trade and an attempt to transfer wealth from colonies to parent country
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mercantilism
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A mutual agreement signed by the men aboard the MAyflower ship
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Mayflower Compact
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A land grant
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headright
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a colonial assembly that made laws for the Virginia Colony.
First representative assembly in the colonies |
House of Burgess
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Pilgrims unwilling to worship within the Church of England
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Seperatists
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The Carribbean sea with its Spanish ports and trade routes
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Spanish Main
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Armed merchant ships
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Privateers
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A written contract
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charter
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A fleet of war ships
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Armada
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To sail around the world
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circumnavigate
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French Protestants
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Hugernots
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