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World History Sem. 2
Prentis Hall World Connections to Today
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ideology | systems of thoughts and beliefs |
| assembly line | production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of small tasks |
| stock | shares in a company |
| Proletariat | working class |
| communism | form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx. It would lead to a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole. |
| Karl Marx | A German philosopher who started the idea of communism |
| Command Economy | system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions |
| Totalitarian State | A government in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizen lives. |
| genocide | an attempt to destroy an entire ethnic or religious group |
| Nationalization | a takeover of property or resources by the government |
| apartheid | a policy of strict racial separation in South Africa. It was abolished in 1989. |
| cultural nationalization | pride in one's own culture |
| civil disobedience | refusal to obey an unjust law |
| Mohandas Gandhi | A philosopher from India who preached nonviolence and reverence for all living things |
| indulgence | In the Roman Catholic Church, a pardon for sins committed during a lifetime. |
| Renaissance | |
| Martin Luther | |
| vernacular | every day language of ordinary people |
| utopian | an ideal society |
| predestination | an idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation |
| heliocentric | based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Machiavelli | |
| Reformation | |
| mercantilism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imports in order to build a supply of gold and silver |
| Atlantic Slave Trade | Europeans viewed slaves from Africa as a valuable commodity. |
| Columbian Exchange | an exchange of plants, animals, foods, etc. between Europe and the Americas |
| absolute monarchy | A ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of people he/she governs |
| limited (constitutional) monarchy | a government in which constitution or legislative body limits the power of the monarchs |
| divine right | belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God |
| natural laws | a rule or law that governs human nature |
| social contract | agreement by which people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos |
| natural right | the right that belongs to all humans from birth |
| Laissez-faire | a policy allowing businesses to operate with little or no government interference |
| Oligarchy | government in which ruling powers belong to a few people |
| popular sovereignty | |
| Bourgeoisie | middle class |
| faction | a small group |
| suffrage | a right to vote |
| nationalism | a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country |
| secular | having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters |
| legitimacy | principle by which monarchies that had been unseated by the French Revolution or Napoleon were restored |
| capital | money or wealth |
| urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| socialism | system in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses |
| women's suffrage | women's right to vote |
| abdicate | to give up a high office |
| cartel | association of large corporations formed to fix prices, set production quotas, or divide up markets |
| standard of living | measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society |
| realism | artistic movement whose aim was present the world as it is |
| romanticism | a 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason |
| impressionism | a school of painting in the late 1800s and early 1900s that tried to capture fleeting visual impressions |
| protectorate | countries with its own government but under the control of an outside power |
| causes of imperialism | manufacturers expanded to outside markets, nations wanted to gain more territory, people (missionaries/doctors) wanted to spread blessing, medicine |
| trade deficit | situation in which a country imports more than it exports |
| polygamy | custom that allows men to have more than one wife |
| mulatto | in Spain's colonies in the Americas, a person who was of African and European descent |
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