Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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Renaissance

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Period of intellectual and artistic creativity

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Astrolabe

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Navigational instrument that measured the positions of stars

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Circumnavigate

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Sail around

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Immunity

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Resistance to diseases

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Capitalism

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Economic system in which people invest money in businesses to make profits

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Mercantilism

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Economic theory stating that a nation becomes powerful by building up its supply of gold and silver

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Columbian Exchange

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Global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases

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Reformation

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Movement that led to a new form of Christianity called Protestantism

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Rule of Law

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Idea that the law should apply to everyone equally and that all people should be treated the same

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Scientific Method

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an orderly way of collecting and analyzing evidence