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Global regents
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Africa | White mans burden; scramble for Africa; natural resources (Berlin Conference-cut up Africa for Colonial powers-like a cake- with no regard to ethnic/tribal boundaries) |
| Age of Exploration | Europeans looking for new trade routes |
| Akbar | Religious toleration; accept diversity |
| Ancient Greece | First democracy; Geography=islands, mountainous, irregular coastline=small city states |
| Appeasement | Britain & France's policy toward Hitler's Germany-give a lollipop to a misbehaving child to keep him happy |
| Kemal Ataturk | Modernization/westernization of Turkey; rights for women |
| Bantu Migration | Cultural Diffusion; spread languages |
| Black plague | Black death, bubonic plague; spread by trade; Middle ages |
| Boxer rebellion & Sepoy Mutiny | Keep out foreign influence |
| Buddhism | 8-fold path, nirvana, 4 noble truths |
| Byzantine Empire | Justinian code=law=legal system; Orthodox church; influence Russia |
| China | Huang He (Yellow) River; Yangtze River; Oracle Bones; Daoism; gunpowder |
| China | Opium War; Boxer Rebellion (Imperialism leads to bad stuff); spheres of influence |
| Code of Hammurabi | Code=law=legal system |
| Columbian exchange | Cultural diffusion; Europe (East) & Americans (West) |
| Commercial Revolution | Mercantilism (European mother country exploits raw materials produced by the colonies); established banking (financial) |
| Communism | Command economy run by government |
| Free Market | All private ownership |
| Mixed economy | Government+ private ownership |
| Traditional economy | Barter |
| Congress of Vienna | Balance of Power |
| Conquistador | Conquest of Mesoamerica by European; superior weapons/spread of disease; European defeated Aztecs and Incas |
| Crusades | Holy War; cultural diffusion |
| Cultural Diffusion | Through trade/war/exploration; spread of ideas and language; spread of disease |
| Cultural Diffusion examples | Phoenician Alphabet, Silk Roads, Muslim and Greco-Roman, Hellenistic Culture, Greco-Roman/western civilization, Cyrillic alphabet, Results of the Crusades, Columbian Exchange, Mestizo culture, Hanseatic league, Mansa musa, Westernization of Russia |
| Deforestation | Cutting down trees |
| Desertification | Expanding of desert |
| Divine Right Theory | Mandate of Heaven=Power from God |
| Egypt | Nile river, Papyrus, pyramids |
| English bill of rights & Magna Carta & Habeas Corpus | Limited monarchy=constitutional monarchy |
| Enlightment and Scientific Revolution | Period of questioning; Use of reason, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire=people who have a say in natural rights |
| Environmental pollution | Global warming, greenhouse effect, nuclear waste |
| Fall of Berlin Wall | Symbolic end of cold war |
| Feudalism | No central government |
| Europe | emphasis on religion |
| Feudal japan | middle ages=Manorialism |
| French Revolutions | Robespierre, Reign of Terror, Louis the 14th, 3 estates, enlightenment |
| Garibaldi | Nationalistic leader of Italy |
| Geographic features | Rivers=farming and trade, Mountain and islands=protect and isolate,, Irregular coastlines=safe harbors/good for trade |
| Ghandi | non-violence; boycotts; Salt March; India Independence |
| Glasnost & Perestroika GO PE | soviet union fall, Glasnost=glass=opening up soviet union, Perestroika=economic restructuring with some capitalism |
| Golden age Islam | mosques, medical books, and algebra |
| Green revolution | growing more food |
| Gupta | India; Concept of 0 and decimal system; monsoons |
| Han Dynasty | Civil service system, paper, wheel |
| Hinduism | Dharma, reincarnation, karma |
| Hitler+ Mussolini+ Franco | Fascist leaders; deny individual rights |
| Ho Chi Minh | Nationalist/independence leader of Vietnam; backed by the communist |
| Human Rights violations examples | Pogroms, Russia's Bloody Sunday, Armenian Massacres, Amritsar Massacre, Nanjing Massacre, Great purge, Final solution. Cultural revolution, Apartheid, Khmer Rough, Tiananmen square massacre, Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Rwandan genocide, Darfur genocide |
| Imperialism | Stronger nation takes over a weaker nation to exploit natural resources |
| India | Indus river valley, Ganges River, Monsoons. Sepoy Mutiny; keep foreigners out |
| Industrial Revolution | England; urbanization; farming to factory; establish labor unions to protect worker rights |
| Ireland | Northern Ireland-under British control; Republic of Ireland- Independent Country; IRA=terrorist group wants northern Ireland independence; Irish potato famine; Irish migration |
| Islam | Ramada, Koran, 5 pillars, Mecca |
| Islamic Fundamentalism | Strict interpretation of Koran |
| John Locke | Natural rights, rights to life, liberty, and property |
| Judaism, Islam, Christianity | All Monotheistic |
| Karl Marx | Class Struggle, proletariat, Communist Manifesto, exploitation of working class |
| Kenyatta; Kwame Nkrumah | Nationalist/independence leaders in africa |
| Louis the 14th | Sun king, Absolute ruler |
| Louis the 16th | French revolution, was beheaded |
| Machiavelli | The prince, rule by power, fear over love |
| Mali+Ghana | Mansa Musa+ Muslim+ Gold and Salt Trade |
| Mandate of heaven/Dynastic cycle & Divine right | ruler chosen by gods |
| Mao Zedong | Great Leap Forward; Cultural revolution; communism |
| Marco Polo+ Ibn Battuto | Cultural diffusion; recording travels |
| Meiji- Japan | Meiji=Modernization; Matthew Perry ends policy of isolations; Japan begins policy of imperialism for natural resources |
| Mercantilism | Colonial wealth, raw materials |
| Mesopotamia | Tigris and Euphrates; fertile crescent |
| Mongols | Great Wall was built to keep them out of China; Mongol Empire=Asia; use of Silk road |
| Monotheism | One God=Christianity, Judaism, Islam |
| NAFTA, EU, Hanseatic League | Trade agreements; trading rights |
| Napoleon & Hitler | Invasion of Russia in winter=bad idea |
| Natural disasters | tsunami; monsoon |
| Neolithic Revolution | Stop/drop/crop (stop nomads, drop belongings, grow crops, domesticate animals) |
| Otto von Bismarck | Nationalist/Unification leader of Germany; blood and iron |
| Ottoman Empire | Bridge Europe & Asia; central location; cultural diversity |
| Partition of India | India was divided following independence=India(Hindus) Pakistan(Muslims) |
| Pax Romana | Pax=good times; peace & prosperity |
| Peter the Great; Catherine the Great; Meiji | Westernization+modernization |
| Pol Pot + Armenian Genocide+Holocaust | Genocide; human rights Pol Pot=Cambodia, Khmer Rouge |
| Primary source | Diary, letter, speech, map, photo |
| Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther; 95 thesis; indulgences Gutenberg=printing press=spread of ideas |
| Renaissance | Rebirth; humanism; cultural achievements; secularism; Individualism |
| Roman Empire | First Empire; 12 tables= law= legal system |
| Russian Revolution | Bolshevik (communist), Lenin, "Peace, Land and Bread" |
| Science & Technology | Interdependence; global economy |
| Secondary source | Newspaper account, textbook, encyclopedia |
| Shintoism, Daoism, Animism | Nature |
| South Africa | Apartheid, Mandela |
| Stalin | Totalitarian rule; collective farm; 5 year plan |
| Terrorism | PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization); IRA (Irish Republican Army) |
| Tiananmen Square | China; Goddess of democracy; student protests; fight for democracy |
| Toussaint L 'Ouverture & Simon Bolivar & San Martin | Nationalist leaders; Latin American Revolutions influenced by American and French Revolutions |
| Treaty of Versailles | Ends WW1; Contributes to outbreak of WW2 |
| World Health Problems | AIDS (S. African nations); infant death rate |
| WW1 | Archduke Ferdinand= powder keg= Baltic |
| WW2 | Starts with German aggression; ends with US dropping Atomic Bomb |
| Zionism | Israeli homeland |
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