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Chapter 15
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Astrolabe
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An istrumeent that allowed mariners to plot their latitude by determining the altitude of the sun and other celestial bodies.
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Baroque
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Term applied to a certain type of Catholic art during the reformation.
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Bourse
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European stock exchange, group of people organized to provide an auction market among themselves for the buying and selling of securities in good.
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Edict of Nantes
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Document issued by Henry IV of France granting liberty of conscience and of public worship to Calvinists in 150 towns.
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Escorial
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Spanish imperial palace built 1563-1584, combining a monastery, the tomb of Spanish Habsburgs, and a royal residence.
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General History of the Indies (1547)
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A book by Spanish chronicler Fernando de Oviedo, providing an informed and reliable account of plants, animals, and people.
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Golden Century of Spain
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Title given 16th century Spain, because of its enormous power and influence in Europe, a power that rested on Mexican and South American gold and silver.
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Hugenots
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Originally a pejorative term for French Calvinists, later the official title for members of the "Reformed religion", Calvinists.
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Magnetic Compass
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Chinese invention that allowed sailors to determine their position and direction at sea.
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Peace of Westphalia
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Name of a series of treaties that concluded the Thirty Years War; recognized the sovereign authority of 300 and more German princes, and made Calvinism a permissible creed within Germany.
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Politiques
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Moderates of both religious faiths who held that only a strong monarchy could save France from total collapse.
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Prince revolution
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Economic theory that the flood of South American bullion into Europe created widespread inflation or price rise; much disputed by scholars.
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Protstant Union
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Alliance of German Lutheran princes alarmed at religious and territorial spread of Calvinism and Catholicism.  Catholicism fought these Lutherans in the Thiry Years' War.
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Quinto
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One-fifth: amount the Spanish crown was to receive of all the precious metals mined in the Americas.
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Spanish Armada
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Fleet sent by Philip II of Spain against England, In his mind a religious crusade against Protestantism.  Weather and the English fleet defeated it.
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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
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The most violent series of confrontations between French Catholics and Protestants, each side trying to secure control over the weak French government.
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Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis
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Agreement that ended six decades of war between the French kings and the Spanish rulers.  France was denied power in Italy.
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Union of Utrecht
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Alliance of 7 northern provinces that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
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Viceroyalties
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Spanish possessions in America that were divided into four different units.
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Witch
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Person usually a woman, believed to possess evil powers acquired by contract or association with the devil.
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