Important Terms

Question 0

African National Congress ( ANC )

Answer 0

Group formed in 1912 to work for blacks right in South Africa.

Question 1

Absolute Monarchy

Answer 1

System in which a ruler ( king or queen ) has complete authority over the government without limits on his/her powers.

Question 2

Agrarian Economy

Answer 2

Economic system that centers on agriculture as the chief source if wealth.

Question 3

Animism

Answer 3

Traditional African religion.

Question 4

Anti-Semitism

Answer 4

Prejudice against Jewish.

Question 5

Apartheid

Answer 5

Official policy of strict segregation of the races

*AFRIKAANS WORD -Apartness *

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Appeasement

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Policy of giving in to the demands of the aggressor to avoid war.

Question 7

Aristocracy

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Government ruled by nobles or the upper class.

Question 8

Armistice

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Temporary agreement to stop fighting.

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Balance of power

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Distribution of military and economic powers among rival so that one nations doesn’t have more power than its neighbors or other nations.

Question 10

Black Death

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Bubonic plague or contagious disease during the 14th century whose death toll is estimated to have exceeded 100 millions in EUROPE ASIA AFRICA.

Question 11

Bolshevik

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Left-wing majority group of the Russian Socialist Democratic Party under the leader of Nikolai Lein

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Bourgeois

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Middle class between aristocrats and workers.

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Buddhism

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Major religion of eastern and Central Asia founded in 6 century b.c.

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Bushido

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Traditional code of Japanese Warrior class ( the samurai ) during the feudal period.

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Caliph

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Title for the successor to Mohammed as the political and religious leader of Islam.

Question 16

Byzantine empire

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Eastern part of the Roman Empire

Question 17

Capitalism

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Economic system in which the means of productions and the distribution of goods and wealth are controlled by individuals and operated for profit.

Question 18

Caste system

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Division of society into four major groups based on occupations or birth.

Question 19

Civil disobedience

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Nonviolent or passive resistance ; refusal to obey unjust laws that are morally wrong.

Question 20

Classical period

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Name for the periodic history that pertains to the artistic style of Ancient Greece & Rome.

Question 21

Class system

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Social division of society based on wealth, birth, education,occupation, or race.

Question 22

Cold War

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Period of tension & hostility between the united stated and the Soviet Union after 1945 because of their different political and economic system

Ended 1991 collapse of Soviet Union.

Question 23

Collectivization

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System under communism in which many small farms were combined into larger farms owned and oersted by the government and worked by peasant.

Started by Stalin 1920

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Command economy

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Economic system in which the cereal authority makes all the productions decisions on what and how to produce goods.

Question 25

Commercial revolution

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Changes in economies of Europe in the Middle Ages with growth of towns, banking system, and trade among nations.

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Confucianism

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Belief system based on the teaching of the Chinese philosopher Confucius , aka Kung fu zi

Traditional values such as obedience Respect education elders leaders.

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Conquistador

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Spanish explores who conquered land in the Americas for Spain during 1500 1600

Question 28

Constitutional monarchy

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System of government in which the power of the kind or queen is limited or defined by the legislature or parliamentary body.

Question 29

Containment

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Policy of the United States towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism in the world.

Question 30

Coup d’état

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(FRENCH )

Swift overthrow of the government by force or by small group of people.

Question 31

Crusades

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Religious wars between Christian and Europe and the Muslim for control of the holy lands lasting from 1096 ad 1246 ad

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Cultural diffusion

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Spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one group or region to another culture.

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Cultural revolution

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Program organized by Mao-Zedong in china on the 1960s against those who opposed the communist government.

Uses Res Guard ( Chinese youth ) to purge china of anyone who disagreed

Question 34

Czar

Answer 34

The Russian emperor

tzar

Question 35

Decolonization we

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Pro Saa by which the European colonies in Africa and Asia became independent countries after world war 2 ended.