ap euro study guide

the Russian noble class

• boyars

• viceroy

• middle passage

• salon

economic system in which the government controls the economy in order to increase the power and wealth of the nation.

• rococo

• natural laws

• mercantilism

• viceroy

Spanish men who served as chief executives in the New World and carried out the laws

• middle passage

• viceroy

• scientific method

• salon

Second leg of the three-part trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in which African slaves traveled across the Atlantic.

• middle passage

• huguenots

• viceroy

• natural laws

French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin

• salon

• natural laws

• bastille

• huguenots

research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.

• scientific method

• salon

• natural laws

• rococo

Universal law that could be understood by applying reason; letting people govern themselves.

• scientific method

• natural laws

• salon

• rococo

Informal gatherings, usually sponsored by middle-class or aristocratic women.

• mercantilism

• no correct answer

• salon

• bastille

a whimsical and elaborately decorative style of art

• scientific method

• mercantilism

• rococo

• viceroy

A royal armory/ fortress and prison. Symbol of despotism

• bastille

• natural laws

• huguenots

• boyars