Chapter 6: SS-blue
Terms
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- Hernan Cortes
- the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
- Versailles
- the palace built for King Louis XIV of France
- Cape of Good Hope
- the southern tip of Africa
- Francisco Pizzarro
- the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
- conquistador
- a Spanish conqueror in the Americas
- Elizabethan Age
- a golden age of English history when Elizabeth 1 was queen; 1558-1603
- circumnavigate
- to sail or fly completed around something; such as Earth
- Northwest Passage
- a sea route through North America
- Renaissance
- the period of the rebirth of learning in Europe between 1300 and 1600
- Reformation
- the effort to change or reform the Roman Catholic Church which led to the beginning of Protestant churches
- Protestant
- referring to Christian religions that grew out of the Reformation
- Age of Exploration
- the period of European exploration overseas from about 1400 to 1600
- absolute monarch
- a king/queen with complete authority over the government and people in a kingdom
- encomienda
- a system in which the Spanish king gave Spanish settlers the right to the labor of the Native Americans who lived in a particular area
- tsar
- the Russian emperor
- Strait of Magellan
- a waterway near the southern tip of South America
- divine right of kings
- the belief that the authority of kings comes directly from God
- humanism
- a system of thought that focuses on the nature, ideals, and achievements of human beings, rather than on the divine