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Atlantic System
Web of trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the New Americas. TERM 2
Plantation
DEFINITION 2 Large tract of land that produces a stable crop such as sugar, coffee, or tabbaco. TERM 3
Mestizo
DEFINITION 3 A person of a Spanish mother and Indian father, and made up most of the population in Spanish colonies. TERM 4
Buccaneers
DEFINITION 4 The buccaneers were pirates who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the 17th century.English, French, and Dutch ship deserters who formed there own governments and pried on ships. TERM 5
Consumer Revolution
DEFINITION 5 As populations grew as well as economic expansion due to the decline of the death rate and uprising of the birth rate. Caused by Bountiful harvests, improved agriculture, and the plagues disappearance. The consumer revolution came along when ordinary people gained disposable incomes and demands for non- essential goods went up. People were employed which gave them purchasing power. Someone said people are consuming animals with boundless appetites.
Agricultural Revolution
Farmers increased the amount of land under cultivation by draining marshlands less small farms used better techniques to nourish the soil this lead to raising more livestock, selective breeding. New Techniques lead to lower food prices. There was more disposable income and an increasing population. Things included silverware, shoes, china, and tobacco. TERM 7
Rococo
DEFINITION 7 A popular form of art was less concerned with monumental art put small art you could purchase at a small price and take home. These art pieces usually encompassed personal portraits, or sensuality rather than monumental. Music was very similar in which it was performed for common people Handel wrote Hallelujah. TERM 8
Pietism
DEFINITION 8 A mystical religion, deeply emotional, they encouraged intense bible study and was most present in Lutheran- Prussia. There was also quietism which was intense Catholics under Jeanne Marie Guyon TERM 9
Robert Walpole
DEFINITION 9 Was Georges right hand man who helped hi figure out pretty much everything because George didnt speak English. He was the first prime minister and was lord of treasury. TERM 10
Peter the Great
DEFINITION 10 he dragged Russia kicking and screaming all the way to great power status.
