World History Semester Test Vocab

an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which includes grammars, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history

• Humanism

• Vernacular

• Mercantilism

• Mestizo

the language of everyday speech in a particular region

• Conquistador

• Vernacular

• Cavaliers

• Heretic

 the religions doctrine that Martin Luther developed; it differed from Catholicism in the doctrine of salvation, which Luther believed could be achieved by faith alone, not by good works; Lutheranism was the first Protestant faith

• Creole

• Lutheranism

• Salvation

• Armada

the state of being saved  (that is, going to heaven) through faith alone or through faith alone or through faith and good works

• Coup d’etat

• Laissez-faire

• Salvation

• Daimyo

a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americans

• Lutheranism

• Conquistador

• Roundheads

• Czar

a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventh century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depends on a large supply of gold and silver

• Salvation

• Creole

• Humanism

• Mercantilism

a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently

• Creole

• Sultan

• Daimyo

• Rationalism

a person of mixed European and Native American descent 

• Salvation

• Mestizo

• Janissary

• Harem

one who does not conform to established doctrine 

• Heretic

• Mestizo

• Absolutism

• Queue

a fleet of warships

• Vernacular

• Absolutism

• Armada

• Geocentric