HIST 2500 Lecture 11: Defintions summary 3
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Absolutist, absolutism: a system of government in which authority is vested in the monarch with no provision for any kind of institutional opposition. Anglican church: see church of england. aristocracy: a privileged social class whose power is usually derived from birth, heredity, and almost exclusive ownership of land, close connections with the clergy and government, and with the crown. As a form of government, a system in which a small and wealthy elite holds power to the exclusion of others. Black death: also called simply the plague, a highly contagious disease reckoned to have reduced the total human population by 25% and as much as half of europe"s population in the 14th century. In its aftermath there was social and religious upheaval from china to the british isles. chattel slavery: ownership of a human being as a piece of property.
