9734928913 | Abacus | An ancient Chinese counting device that used rods on which were mounted movable counters. | ![]() | 0 |
9734937972 | Absolute monarchy | Rule by a king or queen whose power is not limited by a constitution | ![]() | 1 |
9734946265 | Afrikaners | South Africans descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa and the 17th century. | 2 | |
9734948792 | Age grade | An age group into which children were placed in Bantu societies of early sub-Saharan Africa; children within the age grade were given responsibilities and privileges suitable for their age and in this manner will prepare for adult responsibilities. | 3 | |
9734966063 | Agricultural Revolution | The transition from foraging to the cultural food occurring 8000 to 2000 BCE; also known as the Neolithic Revolution. | ![]() | 4 |
9734975724 | Allah | The god of the Muslims. Arabic word for "god". | 5 | |
9734985774 | Alliance for Progress | A program for economic aid for the Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions; part of President Kennedy's international program. | 6 | |
9735016097 | Allied Powers | In World War Ithe nations of Great Britain France Russia and the United States and others that fought against the Central Powers; in War World II a group of Nations including England France the Soviet Union and the United States that fought against the Axis powers. | ![]() | 7 |
9735037825 | Al-Qaeda | An international radical Sunni Muslim organization that uses terrorist tactics to oppose Western culture values. | ![]() | 8 |
9735045434 | Animism | The belief that spirits inhabit the features of nature. | 9 | |
9735055609 | Anschluss | The German annexation of Austria prior to WWII. | 10 | |
9735062192 | Apartheid | The South African policy of separation of the races. | ![]() | 11 |
9735068325 | Appeasement | Policy of England and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s. | ![]() | 12 |
9735077791 | Aristocracy | Rule by a privileged hereditary class or nobility. | ![]() | 13 |
9735087261 | Artifact | An object made by human hands. | ![]() | 14 |
9735090068 | Artisan | A craftsman. | ![]() | 15 |
9735101276 | Astraolabe | Navigational instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars. | 16 | |
9735108447 | Austronesian | A branch of languages originating in Oceania. | ![]() | 17 |
9735117203 | Ayatollah | A traditional Muslim religious ruler. | ![]() | 18 |
9735121102 | Ayllus | In Incan Society, a clan or community that work together on projects required by the ruler. | ![]() | 19 |
9735129700 | Bakufu | A military government established in Japan after the Gempei Wars; the emperor became a figurehead while real power was concentrated on the military including the samurai. | 20 | |
9735140900 | Bantu-speaking people | Name given to a group of sub-Saharan African peoples who migrations alter the Society of the sub-Saharan Africa. | ![]() | 21 |
9735144304 | Battle of Tours | In 732 CE, battle that halted the advance of Muslim armies into Europe at a point in northern France. | ![]() | 22 |
9735154397 | Benefice | In medieval Europe a grant of land or other privilege to a vassal. | 23 | |
9735166012 | Berlin Conference (1884- 1885) | Meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them. | ![]() | 24 |
9735168908 | Black Death | The European name for the 14th century outbreak of the Bubonic plague that spread from Asia across Europe and North Africa falling Land and Sea commercial trade routes. | ![]() | 25 |
9735177962 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy man who acclimated spiritual merits during their lifetimes; Buddhists prayed to them in order to receive some of their holiness | ![]() | 26 |
9735208322 | Boer War (1899-1902) | War between the British and the Dutch over Dutch Independence in South Africa which resulted in British victory. | ![]() | 27 |
9735211905 | Boer | South Africans of Dutch descent. | ![]() | 28 |
9735222904 | Bourgeoisie | In France, the class of merchants and Artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of thr French Revolution; in Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners. | ![]() | 29 |
9735250928 | Boxer Rebellion(1898) | Revolt against foreign residents of China. | ![]() | 30 |
9735258384 | Boyars | Russian nobility. | ![]() | 31 |
9738539443 | Brahmin | A member of the social class of priests in Aryan society. | ![]() | 32 |
9738561080 | Brinkmanship | The Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the US of threatening to go to war at a sign of aggression on part of either power. | ![]() | 33 |
9738584866 | Bristish Commonwealth | A political community consisting of England, its dependencies, and former colonies of England that are now sovereign nations; currently called the Commonwealth of Nations. | 34 | |
9738612941 | Bushi | Regional military leaders in Japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortresses. | 35 | |
9738630189 | Bushido | The code of honor of the samurai of Japan. | ![]() | 36 |
9738636244 | Caliph | The chief Muslim political and religious leader. | ![]() | 37 |
9738655113 | Calpulli | Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders. | ![]() | 38 |
9738661271 | Capital | The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization. | ![]() | 39 |
9738669818 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership and opportunity for profit-making. | ![]() | 40 |
9742656818 | Caravel | a small easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations. | ![]() | 41 |
9742669533 | Catholic Reformation (Counter- Reformation) | The religious Reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church that occurred in response to the Protestant Reformation. It reaffirmed Catholic beliefs and promoted education. | 42 | |
9742684068 | Central Powers | In War World 1 Germany Austria-Hungary Bulgaria the Ottoman Empire and other nations who fought with them against the Allies | ![]() | 43 |
9743033848 | Chinampas | platforms of twisted vines and mud that serve the Aztecs is floating gardens and extended the edge of cultural land. | ![]() | 44 |
9743038363 | Chivalry | A knight's code of honor in medieval Europe. | ![]() | 45 |
9743046663 | Civilization | a cultural group of advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and system of record-keeping. | ![]() | 46 |
9743052147 | Climate | The pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time. | ![]() | 47 |
9743054406 | Coalition | A government based on temporary alliances of several political parties. | ![]() | 48 |
9743060054 | Code Napoleon | collection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. | ![]() | 49 |
9743062304 | Cold War | The tense diplomatic relationship between the US and the USSR after World War II. | ![]() | 50 |
9743070161 | Collectivization | The combination of several small farms into large government-controlled land. | 51 | |
9743072604 | Columbian Exchange | the exchange of food crops, livestock, and disease between the Eastern and Western hemispheres after the Voyages of Columbus | ![]() | 52 |
9743081300 | Commercial revolution | the expansion of trade and commerce in Europe in the 16th and 7th centuries. | ![]() | 53 |
9743083050 | Communism | An economic system in which property is publicly owned; each member of a classless society works and is paid according to his or her needs and abilities. | ![]() | 54 |
9743092637 | Conscription | Military draft | ![]() | 55 |
9743095906 | Conservatism | in the 19th century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state stablished churches. | 56 | |
9743104669 | Containment | Cold War policy of the US whose purpose was to prevent the spread of Communism | ![]() | 57 |
9743111493 | Cossacks | Russians who conquered and settled Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | ![]() | 58 |
9743119268 | Covenant | Agreement; in Judeo-Christian heritage an agreement between God and humankind. | 59 | |
9743130725 | Criollos (Creoles) | a term used in colonial Spanish America describe a person born in the Americas of European parents. | ![]() | 60 |
9743135735 | Cubism | a School of Art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms. | ![]() | 61 |
9743141657 | Cultural diffusion | The transmission of ideas and products of from one culture to another. | ![]() | 62 |
9743147970 | Cultural Revolution | Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers. | ![]() | 63 |
9744647835 | Cuneiform | a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay. | ![]() | 64 |
9744650055 | Daimyo | a Japanese feudal Lord in charge of an army of Samurai | ![]() | 65 |
9744653984 | Dar al-Islam | The House of Islam; a term representing the political and religious unity of various Islamic groups. | ![]() | 66 |
9744657042 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | a statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution. | ![]() | 67 |
9744662150 | Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen | a statement of the rights of Women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man. | ![]() | 68 |
9744668361 | Deism | the concept of God common to the Scientific Revolution; did he was believed to have set the world in motion and then allowed it to operate by natural laws. | ![]() | 69 |
9744672275 | Democracy | A political system in which the people rule. | ![]() | 70 |
9744677407 | Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) | The blueprint of heredity. | ![]() | 71 |
9744679766 | Devshrime | A practice in the Ottoman Empire to take Christian boys from their home communities to service Janissaries. | 72 | |
9744683254 | Dharma | In the Hindu tradition, duty or obligation. | ![]() | 73 |
9744696529 | Diaspora | the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland. | ![]() | 74 |
9744699118 | Divine right | The belief of absolute rulers that their right to govern is granted by God. | ![]() | 75 |
9744701750 | Domestic system | Manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting. | ![]() | 76 |
9744703639 | Duma | The Russian parliament. | 77 | |
9744707891 | Dutch learning | Western learning embraced by some Japanese in the 18th century. | 78 | |
9744710870 | Dynasty | Series of rulers from the same family. | 79 | |
9744712911 | Economic imperialism | control of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation. | 80 | |
9744717360 | Ecomonic Liberalism | The economic philosophy that government intervention in and regulation of the economy should be minimal. | 81 | |
9744719429 | Edict of Milan | a document that made Christianity one of the religions allowed in the Roman Empire. | ![]() | 82 |
9744722541 | Empirical research | research based on the collection of data. | ![]() | 83 |
9744723640 | Enclosure movement | the fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution. | ![]() | 84 |
9744727583 | Ecomienda | A practice in the Spanish colonies that granted land in the labor of Native Americans on that land to European colonists. | 85 | |
9744732051 | Enlightenment | Philosophical movement in the 18th century in Europe that was based on reason and the concept that Education and Training could improve humankind and society. | ![]() | 86 |
9744737954 | Entrepreneurship | the ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production. | ![]() | 87 |
9744740750 | Estates | the divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France. | ![]() | 88 |
9744743261 | Estates-General | The traditional legislative body of France. | ![]() | 89 |
9744744408 | Euro | The standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002 | ![]() | 90 |
9744749117 | European Union | an organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community. | ![]() | 91 |
9744751214 | Evangelical | Pertaining to preaching the Gospel(the good news) or pertaining to theologically conservative Christians. | ![]() | 92 |
9744759337 | Excommunication | The practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in sacraments to those who do not comply with the church teachings or practices. | ![]() | 93 |
9744768407 | Extraterritoriality | the right of foreigners to live on to the laws of their home country rather than those of their host country. | ![]() | 94 |
9744770533 | Factor | an agent with trade privileges in early Russia. | 95 | |
9744771861 | Fascism | a political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights. | ![]() | 96 |
9744775610 | Feminism | The movement to achieve women's rights. | ![]() | 97 |
9744777525 | Feudalism | A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between Lord and vassal in order to provide protection. | ![]() | 98 |
9744781364 | Fief | in medieval Europe, a grant of land given in exchange for military or other services. | ![]() | 99 |
9744786009 | Filial piety | In China, respect for one's parents and other elders. | ![]() | 100 |
9744794710 | Five Pillars | 5 practices required of Muslims: faith, prayer, alms-giving, fasting, and pilgrimage. | ![]() | 101 |
9744800675 | Five-Year Plans | plans for industrial production first introduced into the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; this is succeeded by making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end the 1930s. | ![]() | 102 |
9744811154 | Footbinding | In China a method of breaking and binding women's feet; seen as a sign of beauty and social position, foot binding also confined women to the household. | ![]() | 103 |
9744827876 | Foraging | A term for hunting and gathering. | ![]() | 104 |
9746419999 | Fundamental | A return to traditional religious beliefs and practices. | 105 | |
9746422183 | Geneva Conference | A 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the 17th Parallel. | ![]() | 106 |
9746425380 | Genocide | The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group. | ![]() | 107 |
9746428315 | Geocentric Theory | The belief held by many before the Scientific Revolution that the Earth is at the center of the universe. | ![]() | 108 |
9746431500 | Glasnost | The 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union. | ![]() | 109 |
9746436073 | Glorious Revolution | The bloodless overthrow of English King James I and the placement of William and Mary on the English throne. | ![]() | 110 |
9746440204 | Gold standard | a monetary system in which currency is backed up by a specific amount of gold. | ![]() | 111 |
9747371797 | Gothic Architecture | Architecture of 12th century Europe, featuring stained-glass windows, flying buttresses, tall spires, and pointed arches. | ![]() | 112 |
9747543315 | Gran Colombia | the temporary union of the northern portion of south America after the independence movements led by Simón Bolívar. | ![]() | 113 |
9747555795 | Great Depression | the severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and continued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world. | ![]() | 114 |
9747569646 | Great Leap Forward | the disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes. | ![]() | 115 |
9747578527 | Green Revolution | a program of improved irrigation methods an the introduction of high-yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production; the Green Revolution was especially successful in Asia nut also was used in Latin America. | ![]() | 116 |
9747594413 | griots | storytellers of sub-Saharan Africa who carried on oral traditions and histories. | ![]() | 117 |
9751913959 | Guano | bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late 19th century. | 118 | |
9751918421 | Guest workers | workers from North Africa and Asia who migrated to Europe during the late 20th century in search of employment; some guest workers settled in Europe permanently | 119 | |
9751927152 | Guomindang | China's national political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and based on deomcratic principles; in 1925 the party was taken over by Jaing Jieshi who made it into a more authoritarian party. | 120 | |
9751941690 | Hadith | A collection of the sayings and deeds of Muhammad. | 121 | |
9751944817 | Hajj | The pilgrimage to the Ka'aba in Mecca required once of every Muslim was not limited by health or financial restrictions. | 122 | |
9751956763 | Harem | a household of wives and concubines in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia. | 123 | |
9751961417 | Heliocentric theory | the concept that the center of the universe is the Sun. | 124 | |
9751967387 | Hellenistic Age | The era (c. 323 to 30 BC) in which Greek culture blended with Persian and other Eastern influences spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great. | 125 | |
9751987653 | Helsinki Accords | A 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by the Western European countries and the Soviet Union. | 126 | |
9758810152 | Hieroglyphics | A system of picture writing used in Egypt. | 127 | |
9758864897 | Hijirah | the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina; the first year in the Muslim calendar | 128 | |
9758883917 | Holocaust | the Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable. | 129 | |
9758896824 | Imperialism | The establishment of colonial empires | 130 | |
9758902610 | Import substitution industrialization | when a country's that attempts to strengten industrial power by restricting Foreign imports. | 131 | |
9758913476 | Inca | The ruler of the Quechua people of the west coast of South America; the term is also appiled to the Quechua people as a whole. | 132 | |
9759357374 | Indenture servitude | The practice of contrasting with a master to provide labor for a specified period of years in exchange for passage and living expenses. | 133 | |
9801865314 | Indian National Congess | Polictical party that became the leader of the Indian Nationalist movement. | 134 | |
9801885068 | Indo- Europeans | A group of seminomadic people who, around 2000 BCE, began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East. | 135 | |
9802147666 | Indulgence | A document whose purchases was said to grant the bearer the forgiveness of sins. | 136 | |
9802169980 | Industrial Revolution | The transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and the mechanization of produxtion in a factory setting. | 137 | |
9816995697 | International Monetary Fund | An international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade. | 138 | |
9817028226 | International Space Station | A vehicle sponsered by sixteen nations that circles the earth while carrying out experiments. | 139 | |
9817043885 | Investiture | The authority claimed by monarchs to appoint church officals. | 140 | |
9817054360 | Jacobins | Extreme radicals during the French Revolution. | 141 | |
9817065517 | Janissaries | Members of the Ottoman army,often slaves, who were taken from Chrisrian lands. | 142 | |
9817080555 | Jati | One of the many subcastes in the Hindu caste system. | 143 | |
9817121009 | Jesuits | Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic missionary and educational order founded by Ingatius of Loyola in 1534. | 144 | |
9817141291 | Jihad | Islamic holy war. | 145 | |
9817151479 | Junks | Large Chinese sailing ships especially designed for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song dynasties. | 146 | |
9817173100 | Ka'aba | A black stone or meteorite that became the most revered shrine in Arabia before the introduction of Islam; situated in Mecca, it later was incorporated in the Islamic faith. | 147 | |
9831084227 | Kabuki theater | A form of Japanese developed in the 17th century that features colorful scenery and coustumes and an exaggerated style of acting. | 148 | |
9831104325 | Kamikaze | The "divine wind" credited by the Japanese with preventing the Mongol invasion of Japan in the Mongol. | 149 | |
9831117376 | Karma | In Hindu tradition, the good and evil deeds done by a person that determine reincarnation or reaching nirvana. | 150 | |
9831136342 | Khan | A Mongol ruler. | 151 | |
9831140796 | Kowtow | A ritualistic bow that practiced in the Chinese court. | 152 | |
9831164215 | Kulaks | Russian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy. | 153 | |
9831186597 | Laissez-faire economics | An economic concept that holds that the government should not interfere with or regulate business and industries. | 154 | |
9831197831 | Lateen sail | A triangular sail attached to a short mast. | 155 | |
9831206809 | Latifundia | Large landholdings in the Roman Empire and in Latin America. | 156 | |
9831398609 | Legaue of Nations | International organization found after WWI to promote peace and cooperation among nations. | 157 | |
9831410342 | Liberalism | An Enlightment philosophy that favored civil rights, the protection of private property, and representative gov. | 158 | |
9835570923 | Liberation theology | A religious belief that emphasizes social justice for victims of poverty and oppression. | 159 | |
9835586685 | Limited liability Corporation (LLC) | business organization in which the owners have limited personal legal responsibility for debts and actions of the business. | 160 | |
9835590681 | Magna Carta | a document written in England in 1215 that granted certain rights to Nobles later these rights came to be extended to all classes. | 161 | |
9835607627 | Malay soldiers | Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 CE, they colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana. | 162 | |
9835628784 | Mamluks | Turkish military slaves who form part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries; they founded their own state in Egypt and Syria from the 13th to the early 16th centuries. | 163 | |
9835640580 | Manchus | Peoples from northeastern Asia who founded China's Quing dynasty. | 164 | |
9835645550 | Mandate | a type of colony in which the government is overseen by another Nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War 1. | 165 | |
9835662699 | Mandate of Heaven | the concept developed by the Zhou dynasty that a deity granted a dynasty the right to rule and took away that right if the dynasty do not rule wisely | 166 | |
9835675916 | Manorialism | The system of self-suffient estates rhat arose in medieval Europe. | 167 | |
9835680497 | Maori | A member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 CE. | 168 | |
9835693478 | Marron societies | Runaway slaves in the Caribbean who established their own communities to resist slabery and colonial authorities | 169 | |
9835704690 | Marshall Plan | A US plan to support the recovery and reconstruction of Western Europe after WWII. | 170 | |
9835711657 | Mass Consumerism | Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market. | 171 | |
9835720862 | Matrilineal | Recering to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother. | 172 | |
9837014062 | May Fourth Movement | A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence. | 173 | |
9837019590 | Medieval | Pettaining to the middle ages of European history. | 174 | |
9837024306 | Meiji Restoration | The restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shougunate. | 175 | |
9837031187 | Mercantilism | A European economic policy of the 16th-18th centuries that hels that there was a limited amount of wealth available, and that each country must adout policies to obtain as much wealth as possible for itself; key to the attainment of wealth was the acquisition of colonies. | 176 | |
9837047824 | Mestizos | In the Apanish colonies, persons of mixed European and Indian descent. | 177 | |
9837052638 | Metropolitan | The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. | 178 | |
9837054051 | Mexica | The name given to themselves by the Aztec people. | 179 | |
9837060984 | Middle Ages | The period in European history traditionally given to 500 - 1500. | 180 | |
9837118188 | Middle Kingdom | Term applied to the rich agricultural lands of the Yangtze River valley under the Zhou dynasty. | 181 | |
9837409311 | Middle Passage | The portion of trans-Atlantic trade that involved the passage of Africans from Africa to the Americas. | 182 | |
9837418278 | Minaret | A tower atrached to a mosque from qhich Muslims are called to worship. | 183 | |
9837423210 | Mita | A labor system used by the Andean societies in which communities memebers shared work owed to rulers and the religious community. | 184 | |
9837428885 | Mosksha | In Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation. | 185 | |
9837434842 | Mongol Peace | The period from about 1250 to 1350 in which the Mongols ensured thesafety of Eurasian trade and travel. | 186 | |
9837440471 | Monotheism | The belief in one god. | 187 | |
9837444042 | Monroe Doctrine (1823) | Policy issued by the US in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers. | 188 | |
9837448547 | Monsoon | A seasonal wind that can bring dry or wet weather. | 189 | |
9837452386 | Mosque | The hosue of worship of followers of Islam. | 190 | |
9837458122 | Mughal dynasty | Rulers who controlled most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries. | 191 | |
9837464961 | Mulato (Mulatto) | In the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, a person if mixed African and European descent. | 192 | |
9837471079 | Muslim | "One who submits"; a follwer of Islam. | 193 | |
9837477361 | Mystery Religion | During the Hellenistic Age, religions that promised their faithful follwers eternity in a state of bliss. | 194 | |
9837485940 | National Organization for Women (NOW) | US organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights. | 195 | |
9837491131 | Nation-state | A sovereign state whose people share a common culture and national identity. | 196 | |
9837498696 | Natural laws | Principles that govern nature. | 197 | |
9837501198 | Natural rights | Rights that belong to every person and that no gov may take that away. | 198 | |
9837506765 | Neo-Confucianism | A philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism thought. | 199 | |
9839320512 | New Economic Policy (NEP) | Lenin's policy that allowed aome peivatw ownership and limited foreign investment to revitalize the Soviet economy. | 200 | |
9839326564 | New Testament | The portion of the Bible that contains the Gospels that relate to the story of Jesus; letters from the followers of Jesus to early Christian churches and the Book of Revelation, a prophetic text. | 201 | |
9839341500 | Nirvana | in Buddhism the state of perfect peace that is the goal of reincarnation. | 202 | |
9839343558 | No theater | The classical Japanese drama with music and dances performed on a simple stage by elaborately dressed actors | 203 | |
9839346062 | Nonalignment | the policy of some developing nations to refrain from aligning themselves with either the U.S. or the Soviet Union during the Cold War. | 204 | |
9839349738 | North America Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico and the US and Canada. | 205 | |
9839354410 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | A defense allaincr between alliance between nations of Weatern Europe ans North America formed in 1949. | 206 | |
9839467345 | Northern Renaissance | An extension of the Italian Renassiance to the nations of northern Europe; the Northern Renaissance took on a more religious nature than the Italian Renaissance. | 207 | |
9844795988 | Northwest Passage | A passage thought the North American continent that was sought by early explorers to North America as a route to trade with the East. | 208 | |
9844804963 | Opium War (1839 to 1842) | War between England and China began w/ the Qing dynasty refusal to allow continued opium importation into China; British victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking. | 209 | |
9844822321 | Oracle Bones | Animal bones or shells used by Chinese priests to recieve messges from the gods. | 210 | |
9844840062 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counrties (OPEC) | Organization formed in 1960 by oil producing countries fo regulate oil supplies and prices. | 211 | |
9844850814 | Ozone depletion | The thining of the layer of the gas ozone high in the earth's atmosphere; ozone serves as a protection against the sun's ultraviolet rays. | 212 | |
9844860270 | Pan-Slavic movement | A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia. | 213 | |
9844867810 | Parallel descent | In Incan society, descent through both the father and the mother. | 214 | |
9844873749 | Parliament | A representative assembly. | 215 | |
9844878602 | Parliamentary Monarchy | A gov w/ a king or queen whose power is limited by the power of a parliament. | 216 | |
9844883529 | Pastorialism | The practice of healing. | 217 | |
9844886722 | Patriarchial | Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family. | 218 | |
9844891070 | Pax Romana | The Roman Peace; the period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire in the first 2 centuries CE. | 219 | |
9844898779 | Peninsulares | In the Spanish colonies, those who were born in Europe. | 220 | |
9844901898 | People of the Book | A term appiled by Islamic govs to the Muslims, Christains, and Jews in reference to thr fact that all 3 religions had a holy book. | 221 | |
9844912061 | Peretroika | A restructuring of the Soviet economy to allow some local decision making. | 222 | |
9844917037 | Persian Gulf War | The 1991 war between Iraq and the US-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion. | 223 | |
9844925343 | Perspective | An artistic technique commonly used in the Renaissance painting that gave a 3-dimensional appearance to the works of art. | 224 | |
9844932782 | Pharaoh | An Egyptian monarch. | 225 | |
9844937288 | Philosophes | French Enlightenment social philosophers. | 226 | |
9844940305 | Pogrom | Violence against the Jews in tsarist Russia. | 227 | |
9844944712 | Polis | A Greek city-state. | 228 | |
9844946673 | Polytheism | The beief in many gods. | 229 | |
9844959042 | Pope | The head of the Roman Catholic Church. | 230 | |
9844961962 | Potsdam Conference | A 1945 meeting of the leaders of England, the USA, and the USSR in which it was agreed that the USSR would be given control of eastern Europe and that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation. | 231 | |
9844981550 | Prague Spring | A 1968 program of reform to soften socialism in Czechoslovakia; it resulted in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. | 232 | |
9844993149 | Predestination | 233 |
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