Chapter 6 vocab
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- Strait of Magellan
- A waterway near the southern tip of South America
- Conquistador
- A Spanish conqueror in the Americas
- Humanism
- A system of thought that focuses on the nature, ideals, and achievements of human beings, rather than on the divine
- Hernan Cortes
- The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
- Elizabethan Age
- A golden age of English history when Elizabeth I was queen
- Versailles
- The palace built for the French king Louis XIV
- Tsar
- The Russian emperor
- Circumnavigate
- To sail or fly completely around something
- 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
- Age of Exploration
- The period of European exploration overseas from about 1400 to 1600
- Divine right of kings
- the belief that the authority of kings comes directly from God
- Absolute monarch
- A king or queen with complete authority over the government and people in a kingdom
- Cape of Good Hope
- The southern tip of Africa
- Fransisco Pizarro
- The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
- Renaissance
- The period of the rebirth of learning in Europe between about 1300 and 1600
- Encomienda
- A system in which gave the Spanish settlers the right to the labor of the Native Americans who lived in a particular area
- Protestant
- referring to Christian religions that grew out of the Reformation