AP EUROPEAN HISTORY REVIEW.
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Humanism - Answer: The Scholarly interest in the study of the classical text, values, and
styles of Greece and Rome
Christian Humanism - Answer: A branch of humanism associated with northern Europe
Venacular - Answer: The everyday language of a region or country
New Monarchs - Answer: European monarchs who created professional armies and a more
centralized administrative bureaucracy.
Taille - Answer: A direct tax on the French peasantry.
What was the most important source of income for the French monarchs until the French
Revolution? - Answer: Taille
Reconquista - Answer: The centuries-long Christian "reconquest" of Spain from the
Muslims.
Indulgences - Answer: A certificate granted by the pope in return for the payment of a free
to the church. The certificate stated that the soul of the dead relative or friend of the
purchaser would have his time in purgatory reduced by many years or cancelled all
together.
Anabaptist - Answer: Protestants who insisted that only adult baptism conformed to
scripture.
Huguenots - Answer: French protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin
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, Politiques - Answer: Rulers who put political necessities above personal beliefs
Columbian Exchange - Answer: The interchange of plants, animals, diseases, and human
populations between the Old World and the New World
Mercantilism - Answer: Economic philosophy that called for close government regulation of
the economy. Mercantilism theory emphasized building a strong, self-sufficient economy
by maximizing exports and limiting imports.
Putting-Out System - Answer: A postindustrial manufacturing system in which an
entrepreneur would bring materials to rural people who worked on them in their own
homes.
Absolutism - Answer: A system of government in which the ruler claims sole and
incontestable power.
Divine Right of Kings - Answer: The idea that rulers receive their authority from God and are
answerable only to God.
Intendants - Answer: French royal officials who supervised provincial governments in the
name of the king.
Fronde - Answer: A series of rebellions against royal authority in France between 1649 and
1652.
Robot - Answer: System of forced labor used in Eastern Europe
Junkers - Answer: Prussia's landowning nobility.
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Humanism - Answer: The Scholarly interest in the study of the classical text, values, and
styles of Greece and Rome
Christian Humanism - Answer: A branch of humanism associated with northern Europe
Venacular - Answer: The everyday language of a region or country
New Monarchs - Answer: European monarchs who created professional armies and a more
centralized administrative bureaucracy.
Taille - Answer: A direct tax on the French peasantry.
What was the most important source of income for the French monarchs until the French
Revolution? - Answer: Taille
Reconquista - Answer: The centuries-long Christian "reconquest" of Spain from the
Muslims.
Indulgences - Answer: A certificate granted by the pope in return for the payment of a free
to the church. The certificate stated that the soul of the dead relative or friend of the
purchaser would have his time in purgatory reduced by many years or cancelled all
together.
Anabaptist - Answer: Protestants who insisted that only adult baptism conformed to
scripture.
Huguenots - Answer: French protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin
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, Politiques - Answer: Rulers who put political necessities above personal beliefs
Columbian Exchange - Answer: The interchange of plants, animals, diseases, and human
populations between the Old World and the New World
Mercantilism - Answer: Economic philosophy that called for close government regulation of
the economy. Mercantilism theory emphasized building a strong, self-sufficient economy
by maximizing exports and limiting imports.
Putting-Out System - Answer: A postindustrial manufacturing system in which an
entrepreneur would bring materials to rural people who worked on them in their own
homes.
Absolutism - Answer: A system of government in which the ruler claims sole and
incontestable power.
Divine Right of Kings - Answer: The idea that rulers receive their authority from God and are
answerable only to God.
Intendants - Answer: French royal officials who supervised provincial governments in the
name of the king.
Fronde - Answer: A series of rebellions against royal authority in France between 1649 and
1652.
Robot - Answer: System of forced labor used in Eastern Europe
Junkers - Answer: Prussia's landowning nobility.
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