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2239801779CivilizationAn ambiguous term used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits.0
2239804885CultureSocially transmitted patterns of action and expression. Material culture refers to physical objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. It also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology.1
2239808020Mesopotamia...2
2239808971Stone Age...3
2239808972Paleolithic...4
2239810192Neolithic...5
2239810215Homo sapiens...6
2239811980Gorager...7
2239811981Jericho...8
2239814327Catak Huyuk...9
2239818630Agricultural Revolution...10
2239818631Epic of Gilgamesh...11
2239819670Sumerians...12
2239822564Babylon...13
2239822591Semitic...14
2239826748City-State...15
2239826749Hammurabi...16
2239826779Scribe...17
2239828743Ziggurat...18
2239830897Anthropomorphic...19
2239830898Cuneiform...20
2239832688Pharaoh...21
2239832689Memphis...22
2239832690Thebes...23
2239839712Hieroglyphics...24
2239839713Papyrus...25
2239839753Mummification...26
2239841940Harappa...27
2239841962Mohenjo-Daro...28
2239844340Huang He...29
2239844341Yangzi...30
2239984971Loess...31
2239984972Shang...32
2239986531Anyang...33
2239986572Mandarin...34
2239988165Divination...35
2239988166Zhou...36
2239991324Mandate of Heaven...37
2239991325Legalism...38
2239991326Confucius...39
2239991327Analects...40
2239991328Laozi...41
2239992608Dao...42
2239992609Qin...43
2239992610Nubia...44
2239995221Cataract...45
2239995222Kush...46
2239995223Meroe...47
2239997096Mesoamerica...48
2239997097Olmec...49
2239997098Chavin...50
2239999877Iron Age...51
2240001078Hittites...52
2240002484Hatshepsut...53
2240005097Akhenaten...54
2240006975Ramesses II...55
2240006976Minoan...56
2240007999Mycenae...57
2240008000Shaft grave...58
2240012444Linear B...59
2240013515Neo-Assyrian Empire...60
2240013516Mass deportation...61
2240015055Library of Ashurbanipa...62
2240015056Israel...63
2240016385Hebrew Bible...64
2240016386First Temple...65
2240020151Monotheism...66
2240020152Diaspora...67
2240020229Phoenicians...68
2240021745Carthage...69
2240023199Neo-Babylonian kingdom...70
2239989236Mandate of Heaven...71
2239989237Legalism...72
2238504504Simon Bolivar...73
2238505893Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla...74
2238505894Jose Maria Morelos...75
2238507909Confederation of 1867...76
2238507910Personalist leaders...77
2238509099Caudillo...78
2238509100Andrew Jackson...79
2238510231Jose Antonio Paez...80
2238510232Benito Juarez...81
2238511639Tecumseh...82
2238511640Caste War...83
2238512543Abolitionists...84
2238512544Nativists...85
2238513776Acculturation...86
2238513777Women's Rights Convention...87
2238515449Zulu...88
2238515450Sokoto Caliphate...89
2238515451Modernization...90
2238517317"Legitimate Trade"...91
2238517318Recaptives...92
2238518430Nawab...93
2239679877Sepoy...94
2239679878British Raj...95
2239680665Durbar...96
2239682085Indian Civil Service...97
2239682086Clipper ship...98
2239683234Contract of Indenture...99
2239687517Muhammad Ali...100
2239693067Janissaries...101
2239693068Tanzimat...102
2239693069Crimean War...103
2239720087Young Ottomans...104
2239720088Decembrist Uprising...105
2239720089Taiping Rebellion...106
2239720090Extraterritoriality...107
2239720091Opium War...108
2239720092Bannermen...109
2239720093Treaty of Nanking...110
2239720094Treaty ports...111
2239720095Railroad/Steamships (impact)...112
2239726012Telegraph (impact)...113
2239748511Steel (impact)...114
2239748512Victorian Age...115
2239748513Separate Spheres...116
2239748514Labor Unions...117
2239748515Communist Manifesto...118
2239748516Bourgeoisie...119
2239748517Proletariat...120
2239751038Anarchist...121
2239751039Nationalism...122
2239753323Liberalism...123
2239754804King Wilhelm I...124
2239754805Otto von Bismarck...125
2239758219Napoleon III...126
2239759158Alfred Dreyfus...127
2239759159Pogroms...128
2239768989Empress Dowager Cixi...129
2239768990Matthew Perry...130
2239768991Meiji Restoration...131
2239768992New Imperialism...132
2239768993Battle of Omdurman...133
2239768994Colonialism...134
2239770855Suez Canal...135
2239771081Henry Morton Stanley...136
2239772773King Leopold II...137
2239772774Berlin Conference...138
2239777318Afrikaners...139
2239777319Zulu...140
2239778973Xhosa...141
2239781407Cecil Rhodes...142
2239782880Asante...143
2239782881Menelik...144
2239790258Emilio Aguinaldo...145
2239790276Free-trade imperialism...146
2239801782Panama Canal...147
2239792071Spanish American War...148
2395984321Cold WarThe ideological struggle between Communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another. It came to an end when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.149
2395987782Iron CurtainWinston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the United States dominated West.150
2395990033NATOOrganization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies.151
2395991215United NationsInternational organization founded in 1945 to promoted word peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.152
2395992059International Monetary FundIt is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, foster international trade, promote high employment and sustain economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.153
2395996317World BankA specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.154
2396000099Marshall PlanU.S. program to support the reconstruction of western Europe after World War 2. By 1961 more than $20 billion in economic aid had been dispersed.155
2396413512Proxy WarDuring the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants.156
2401648157Allende, SalvadorSocialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack.157
2401648158Pinochet, AugustoA military leader with support of the United States, overthrew Chile's president, Salvador Allende. During the revolution many Chileans died and others were illegally seized, tortured, and imprisoned without trial. Once in power he rolled back Allende's social reforms158
2401648159Dirty WarWar waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military.159
2401648160SandinistasMembers of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somozoa in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.160
2401648161Contras...161
2401648162Reagan, Ronald...162
2401648163Bush, George H.W....163
2401648164Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza...164
2401648165Khomeini, AyatollahShi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic.165
2401648166Husain, SaddamPresident of Iraq from 1979 until overthrown by an American-led invasion in 2003. Waged war on Iran from 1980 to 1988. His invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was repulsed in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.166
2401648167KeiretsuAlliance of corporations and banks that dominate the Japanese economy.167
2401648168Asian TigerCollective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore- nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.168
2401648169NIEsRapidly growing, newly industrial nations of the late twentieth century, including the Asian Tigers.169
2401659194Xiaoping, Deng...170
2401673067Tiananmen Square...171
2401676937Solzhenitsyn, Alexander...172
2401683592Glasnot...173
2401685297Perestroikapolicy of "openness" that was the centerpiece of Mikhail Gorbachev efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union.174
2402516949SolidarityPolish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall communism in eastern Europe.175
2402670839Wojtyla, Karol...176
2402670840Walsea, Lech...177
2402670841Ceausescu, Nicolae...178
2402670842Havel, Vaclav...179
2402670843Persian Gulf War...180
2402670844Demographic TransitionA change in the rate of population growth. Before the transition, both the birthrates and death rates are high, resulting in a slowly growing population; then the death rate drops but the181
2406915057Wojtyla, Karol...182
2406915058Walsea, Lech...183
2406915059Ceausescu, Nicolae...184
2406915060Havel, Vaclav...185
2406915061Persian Gulf War...186
2406915062Demographic TransitionA change in the rate of population growth. Before the transition, both the birthrates and death rates are high, resulting in a slowly growing population; then the death rate drops but the birthrates remains high, causing a population explosion; finally the birthrate drops and the population growth slows down. This took place in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in North America and East Asia in the middle twentieth, and, most recently, in Latin America and South Asia.187
2420854715Wojtyla, Karol...188
2420854716Walsea, Lech...189
2420854717Ceausescu, Nicolae...190
2420854718Havel, Vaclav...191
2420854719Persian Gulf War...192
2420854720Demographic TransitionA change in the rate of population growth. Before the transition, both the birthrates and death rates are high, resulting in a slowly growing population; then the death rate drops but the birthrates remains high, causing a population explosion; finally the birthrate drops and the population growth slows down. This took place in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in North America and East Asia in the middle twentieth, and, most recently, in Latin America and South Asia.193
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