Unit 3 - AP World History: Modern

4. connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
5. system of money
6. the results of some previous action
8. transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
9. an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
12. travel all the way around the earth (e.g. Magellan)
13. the property of a continuous and connected period of time
14. concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land
15. People who believe that no God exists. Came about in relatively large numbers during the Scientific Revolution.

1. physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land
2. ruler with complete control over the government and the lives of the people.
3. a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
7. a system of organizing nation-states around a democratic principle and independence; a system of organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
10. the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations
11. Influenced by the spirit of rationalism, Desists believed that God, like a celestial clock maker, had created a perfect universe and then had stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws, playing a passive role. Came about in relatively large numbers during the Scientific Revolution.
12. a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)