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| when a country wants to expand it's empire by developing colonies all over the world |
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| exploring unknown regions of the world |
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| moving streams of water that run through the oceans |
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| a group of nations or territories under a single ruler or government |
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| an imaginary line running down the atlantic from the north pole to the south pole |
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| the circling of the globe |
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| to set a ship's course over water |
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| a tool that uses a magnetized needle to determine direction |
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| a tool invented by the greeks and improved by the arabs that uses the sun and stars to help sailors determine latitude |
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| the distance in degrees north and south of the equator |
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| a flat moveable peice at the rear of the ship, makes it easier to steer |
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| a lghtweight ship that allowed sailors to come closer to shore |
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| a mixture of of chemicals that explode when lit |
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| outposts or settlements ruled by the homeland |
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| an outpost for the purpose of trade |
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| a large estate theat produces cash crops |
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| one or two products grown for profit |
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| territories governed by the homeland |
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| spain gave landowers the right to use the labor of the native americans that lived there |
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| a farmer that paid rent and worked a fixed number of days each year for landowners |
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| like parliment, here representatives spoke for people |
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| causing one to change their belifs to another religion of faith |
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| a policy of turning inward from the world |
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| the movement of goods, people, ideas, and even diseases across the atlantic |
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| a theory to explain how trading nations could earn wealth, by building up a stock of gold and silver |
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| to sell to other countries |
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| to buy from other contries |
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| the difference between how much a country imports and how much they export |
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| the buying and selling of goods in large quantities over long distances |
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| a person that risks money in hopes of earning a profit |
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| allowed individual entrepenuers to buy, stocks, or shares, in a company |
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| a group of people who share a similar position in society |
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| a system in which people, rather than governments, own property, make goods and buy and sell them freely |
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| the freedom of private business to compete for profits without government involvement |
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| a government led by one king or queen |
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| a system that puts absolute power in the hands of a ruler and his/her advisors |
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| the idea that rulers recive their power directly from God and are only responsible to God and not the people |
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| a monarchy with unlimited power |
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| a system in which power is restricted by the people |
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| a meeting of people to help make laws |
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| a monarchy ruled by an elected assembly and limited by law |
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| a government where the monarchs exercised absolute and total control |
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| the use of scientific and logical thinking to draw conclusions about society |
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| a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational concept |
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| rights belonging to all humans from birth |
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| an agreement between citizens and their ruler |
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| division of power among the branches of goverment |
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| a system that protects freedom by keeping any one person or group from gaining to much power |
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| an introduction to a constitution stating the purposes to be served by government |
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| a government in which power rests in the hands of a single ruler an his/her advisors |
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| any government in which a small group, such as a political party, holds power |
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| any system of government in which the people hold power, usually through the vote |
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| an extreme form of government in which the rulers claim total control over all the activities of the citizens |
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