Chp. 5 vocab.
Chapter 5 vocabulary
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- Age of Exploration
- The period of European exploration overseas from about 1400 to 1600.
- Absolute monarch
- A king or queen with complete authority over the government and people in a kingdom.
- Reformation
- The effort to change or reform the Roman Catholic Church, which led to the establishment of Protestant churches.
- Northwest Passage
- A sea route through North America.
- Tsar
- The Russian emperor.
- Strait of Magellan
- A waterway near the southern tip of South America.
- 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.
- Cape of Good Hope
- The southern tip of Africa.
- Conquistador
- A Spanish conqueror in the Americas.
- Elizabethan Age
- A golden age of English history when Elizabeth I was queen, 1558-1603.
- Versailles
- The palace built for the French king Louis XIV.
- Hernan Cortes
- The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs.
- Circumnavigate
- To sail or fly completely around something, such as Earth.
- Francisco Pizarro
- The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas.
- Humanism
- A system of thought that focuses on the nature, ideals, and achievements of human beings, rather than on the divine.
- Renaissance
- The period of the rebirth of learning in Europe between about 1300 and 1600.
- Protestant
- Referring to Christian religions that grew out of the Reformation.
- Divine right of kings
- The belief that the authority of kings comes directly from God.