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Stack #65693
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Caste | Unchangeable social group into which you were born |
| City-State | Unit made up of a city and the surrounding lands |
| Cultural Diffusion | Spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one person to another |
| Dynasty | Ruling family |
| Empire | Group of states controlled by one ruler |
| Mandate of Heaven | Right to rule |
| Mystic | People who devote their lives to seeking spirtual truth |
| New Stone Age | Neolithic Age |
| Old Stone Age | Paleolithic Age |
| Polytheistic | Believing in many gods |
| Vedas | Prayers, hymns, and other religious teachings |
| Cuneiform was used by? | Sumerians |
| 2 Rivers that influenced early India | Indus River and the Ganges River |
| Ziggurat | pyramid temple with steps |
| Alexander the Great | King Philip's son that took the crown at 20 years old |
| Anasazi | best known society of the desert |
| Augustus | Rome's 1st empire who helped recover from long period of unrest |
| Democracy | government ran by the people |
| Shii Huangdi | ruler of Zhou dynasty that unified China |
| Sidd Gautama | Founder of Buddhism |
| Who influenced the Roman greatly? | Greeks and Egyptians |
| Tribute | payment |
| Caliph | succeor to Muhammad |
| Common Law | law that is the same for everyone, regaurdless the rank |
| Crusade | holy wars |
| Daimye | great warrior lords |
| Fief | estate |
| Griot | profesional poets |
| Hajj | pilgramiage to Mecca |
| Justinian | famous Byzantine emporer, collected and organized the laws of anciet Rome |
| Knight | mounted warriors |
| Muhammad | prophet of Islam, was called in a vision to become the messenger to God |
| Shogun | supreme military commander |
| Purpose of the Magna Carta | 1) nobles had certain rights 2) Monarchs must obey the law |
| The Byzantine Empire preserved the cultural heritage of | The Greeks and Romans |
| Annul | to cancel |
| Copernicus | proposed that the universe was heliocentric |
| Durer | traveled to Italy to study techniques of Italian masters, especially engraving |
| Heliocentric | sun-centered |
| Henry VIII | stood firmly against the Protestant revolt |
| Humanism | focused on worldy subjects rather than religious |
| Indulgence | pardon for sins committed during a person's lifetime |
| John Calvin | most important follower of Luther |
| Martin Luther | man who triggered the revolt |
| Newton | perfected his theory of Gravity |
| Machiavelli | observed kings and princes in foreign courts |
| Petrarch | Renaissance humanist |
| Recant | give up on one's views |
| Theocracy | government run by religious leaders |
| Luther critized the Roman Catholic church because | they wanted him to give up on his views and ideas |
| The church refused the annul | Henry VIII marriage |
| Adam Smith | greatly admired the physiocrats |
| Montesquieu | separation of powers |
| Diderot | made a 28 volume dictionary |
| Rousseau | believed people were basically good |
| Bach | composed music for harsichord |
| Laissez faire | allowing buisness to operate with little or no government interference |
| Natural Law | governs human rights |
| Natural Rights | rights that belong to humans from birth |
| Oligarachy | government in which ruling power belongs to a few people |
| Physiocrat | searched for natural laws to explain economics |
| Social Contract | people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos |
| Paine | published a pamphlet that declared their independence from Britain |
| Voltaire | famous philosophe |
| Communism | form of socialism that wanted class structure to be equal |
| David Ricardo | believed that the "poor" had too many children |
| The role of women during the IR | to have kids and take care of the house |
| Tull | invented the seed drill |
| Malthus | writer on population shaped economic thinking for generations |
| Watt | improved on Newcomen's engine |
| Wesley | founder of the Methodist church |
| Karl Marx | condemned the ideas of the Utopians as unrealistic idealism |
| Proletariat | working class |
| Socailism | people were as a whole rather than individuals |
| Turnpike | privetly built roads that charged a fee to travelers who used them |
| Urbanization | movement of ppl to cities |
| Utiliatarianism | goal of society would be the great happiness to citizens |
| The main source of fuel was | Coal |
| Assembly Line | production method |
| Dickens | vivedly protrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers |
| Interchangeable Parts | identical components that can be used in place of each other |
| Pasteur | showed the link between microbes and disease |
| Racism | belief that one racial group i superior to another |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| Corporation | business owned by many investors who buy shares |
| Social Darwinism | darwin's theories believed by others |
| Romanticism | art movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason |
| Realism | art movement to represent the world as it is |
| Impressionism | tried to capture the fleeting visual impressions |
| Bimarck | built up the Prussion Army |
| Chancellor | prime minister |
| Realpolitik | based on the needs of the state |
| Kulturkampf | "battle for civilazation" |
| Taiping Rebellion | a peasant revolt |
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