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Migliore Global 10R
Study for NYS Global Studies Regents Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Karl Marx | father of Communism who focused on industrial workers & thought they should overthrow capitalism |
| Kemal Ataturk | Turkish independence leader who wanted to modernize Turkey |
| Toussain L'Ouverture | worked to free Haiti from French control |
| Peter the Great | absolute monarch who wanted to modernize Russia |
| John Locke | Enlightenment thinker who believed that people have natural rights and government is by the people |
| Akbar the Great | Indian absolute ruler who accepted diversity and RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | absolute monarch who controlled the large Ottoman Empire and increased its centralized power |
| Ho Chi Min | worked to free Vietnam from French control |
| Nelson Mandela | helped end apartheid |
| Zheng He | expanded trade for China during the Ming Dynasty |
| Machiavelli | believed leaders should keep political power by any means necessary |
| Martin Luther | wrote the Ninty-Five Thesis against the sale of indulgences and started the Protestant Reformation |
| Newton | mathematician that developed the Theory of Gravity |
| Galileo | scientist who developed the Heliocentric Theory |
| Simon Bolivar | independence leader for South America and was slowed down by the Andes Mountains |
| Philip II | controlled large Spanish Empire |
| Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge | Cambodian dictator who committed mass genocide |
| Kwame Nurumah | worked to free Ghana from British control |
| Gandhi | used boycotts, marches (Salt March), civil disobedience and other nonviolent resistance |
| Imperialism | having colonies for raw materials |
| Feudalism | serfs work land in exchange for protection from centralized lord (stable workforce) |
| Colombian Exchange | MERCANTILISM and CULTURAL DIFFUSION |
| Encomienda Labor System | Spanish system of forced labor |
| European Union (EU) | free trade & interdependence between members |
| Econoimcs | study of scarcity --> how people get their wants & needs |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao's economic polity to modernize China with communes |
| OPEC | control's world oil prices |
| Mercantilism | based on the idea of more exports than imports will = wealth |
| Manorialism | economic system during the Middle Ages in Europe |
| Ukrainian Famine | caused by collectivization |
| Justinian Code | Byzantine code of laws |
| Cuba | Castro is communist leader who had support of peasants |
| Code of Hammurabi | first written code of laws |
| Magna Carta | limited the power of the king in England |
| Meji Restoration | attempt to modernize Japan |
| Twelve Tables | Roman code of laws |
| Berlin Conference | divided Africa into European colonies |
| NATO | treaty that said if one country is attacked by USSR, then all would go to war |
| Indian Independence | divided India into India & Pakistan |
| Deforestation | loss of forest in Central Africa, Amazon and South East Asia |
| India's Geography | monsoons, mountains for protection (low population in the mountains), Thar Desert, Ganges River & Deccan Plateau |
| Berlin Wall | separated East & West Berlin --> limits movement |
| Incas | lived in Andes mountains |
| Mayan & Aztecs | had cities & religions centers --> decline because of foreign invasion |
| Mali | built mosques, had great art & economy because of Mansa Musa and Gold/Salt Trade |
| Ghana & Songhai | Gold Salt Trading empires |
| Ottoman Empire | rose because they conquered Constantinople & located between Europe & Asia |
| Japanese imperialism | late 1890s-1940s |
| Gupta Empire | Golden Age = Ajanta caves, decimal, zero, trade with Persia & E. Africa |
| Rome | controlled all of the Mediterranean, fell because of corruption, size & foreign invaders |
| Golden Age of Islam | development of mosques, medicine, Algebra & science |
| Renaissance | stressed individualism |
| Industrial Revolution | improved technology & led to urbanization |
| Neolithic Revolution | start of farming and domestication of animals |
| French Revolution | causes are Enlightenment ideas and upset Third Estate |
| Commercial Revolution | development of financial institutions and capitalism |
| Russian/Bolshevik Revolution | caused by WWI, an incompetent government and Bloody Sunday |
| Black Death | disease that wiped out large population in Europe, caused shortages and followed trade routes |
| Nuclear Proliferation | spread of nuclear weapons - fear they are in Iran & North Korea |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | protects people's rights |
| Act of Supremacy | from the Protestant Reformation, King Henry VIII declared himself the head of the Church of England |
| Russian Cyrillic Alphabet & Orthodox Church | Influenced by Byzantine Empire |
| Russian victories | Russia wins because of a large army and harsh winters |
| Germany & Korea | were both divided after war & had uneven economic development |
| Irish Migration | result of famine |
| Bantu Migrations | caused cultural diffusion & impacted language |
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