Chapter 2 Vocabulary terms

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The political theory of the ruler's absolute power.

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Absolutism

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Crops like cotton and tobacco are grown in large quantities for profit.

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Cash crops

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Laborers who work without pay for their journey to America

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Indentured servant

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A king's system of increasing national wealth by restricting colonies to trade only with the mother country.

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Mercantilism

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In the Spanish colonies, the authority to provide cheap labor and goods was granted, with the requirement to Christianize the indigenous people.

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Encomienda system

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People were forced to work without pay for the wealth of the landlords.

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Slave

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Charter

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Contract or Document

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Mercantilism

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For the benefit of the mother country

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Canon means...

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The accepted rule about how things should be done, often a religious law.

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Definition: "Global spread of homogeneous populations"

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Dispersion