vocab from glossary of review book
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| 297292984 | absolutism | political system in which autocratic rulers have complete authority over the government and the lives of people in their nations | 0 | |
| 297292985 | agrarian revolution | change in farming methods in the 1600s that improved the quality and quantity of farm products | 1 | |
| 297292986 | allied powers | world war 1 alliance of great britain, france, and russia, later joined by italy, the united states, and others | 2 | |
| 297292987 | aristocracy | a government ruled by an upper class | 3 | |
| 297292988 | armistice | agreement to end fighting | 4 | |
| 297292989 | autocrat | a single ruler with complete authority | 5 | |
| 297292990 | balance of power | distribution of political and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong | 6 | |
| 297292991 | bolshevik | member of 1917 russian revolutionary group. *communism, marxism, socialism | 7 | |
| 297292992 | bourgeoisie | middle class in marxism; it refers to capitalists | 8 | |
| 297292993 | boxer rebellion | event in 1900 in which a group known as boxers assaulted foreign communities across china | 9 | |
| 297292994 | bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials | 10 | |
| 297292995 | capitalism | economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit | 11 | |
| 297292996 | caudillo | military dictator in latin america | 12 | |
| 297292997 | central powers | world war 1 alliance of germany, austria-hungry, and the ottoman empire (later joined by bulgaria) | 13 | |
| 297292998 | congress of vienna | conference held in 1815 among european diplomats that had the purpose of restoring order and stability to europe | 14 | |
| 297292999 | constitutional monarchy | a government in which the power of the king is limited by law | 15 | |
| 297293000 | coup d'etat | a revolt by a small group intended to overthrow a government | 16 | |
| 297293001 | czar | term for autocratic ruler of russia | 17 | |
| 297293002 | despot | absolute ruler | 18 | |
| 297293003 | divine right | belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god | 19 | |
| 297293004 | empire | group of states or territories governed by one ruler | 20 | |
| 297293005 | enlightened despot | absolute ruler who used royal power to reform society; example= catherine the great | 21 | |
| 297293006 | enlightenment | the period in the 1700s in which people rejected traditional ideas and supported a belief in human reason | 22 | |
| 297293007 | estates general | a french legislative body made up of clergy, nobles, and common people, such as businesspeople and peasants | 23 | |
| 297293008 | ethnocentrism | the belief in the superiority of ones own race, culture, or nation | 24 | |
| 297293009 | factory | place in which workers and machines are brought together to produce large quantities of goods | 25 | |
| 297293010 | genocide | attempt to destroy an entire ethnic of religious group | 26 | |
| 297293011 | pan-slavism | nationalistic movement that sought to unite slavic peoples | 27 | |
| 297293012 | parliament | representative assembly of england | 28 | |
| 297293013 | philosophe | thinkers of the enlightenment | 29 | |
| 297293014 | pogrom | violent attack on a jewish community | 30 | |
| 297293015 | propaganda | the spreading of ideas to promote a certian cause or to damage an opposing cause | 31 | |
| 297293016 | reparations | payment for war damages | 32 | |
| 297293017 | russification | attempt by russian rulers to make all groups under russian rule think, act, and believe as russians | 33 | |
| 297293018 | russo-japanese war | war occuring from 1904 to 1905 between japan and russia; won by japan | 34 | |
| 297293019 | scientific method | a method of discovering truth based on experimentation and observation rather that on past authorities | 35 | |
| 297293020 | scientific revolution | period in the 1500s and 1600s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation | 36 | |
| 297293021 | secular | having to do with worldly rather than religious matters | 37 | |
| 297293022 | sepoy | indian soldier serving in the army set up by the british of french east india companies | 38 | |
| 297293023 | sepoy mutiny | rebellion fought by hindu and muslim sepoys against british rule in india in the mid 1800s | 39 | |
| 297293024 | sino-japanese war | war that lasted from 1894 to 1895 between japan and china | 40 | |
| 297293025 | socialism | system in which the people as a whole rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses | 41 | |
| 297293026 | sphere of influence | area in which an outside power claims exclusive trade privleges | 42 | |
| 297293027 | suffrage | the right to vote | 43 | |
| 297293028 | taiping rebellion | peasant rebellion in china occurring between 1850 and 1864 | 44 | |
| 297293029 | technology | tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs | 45 | |
| 297293030 | total war | the channeling of all of a nation's resources into a war effort | 46 | |
| 297293031 | trench warfare | type of warfare in which troops dig trenches and fight from them | 47 | |
| 297293032 | westernization | process of adopting western ways | 48 | |
| 297293033 | young turks | movement established by turks in the late 1800s to reform the ottoman empire | 49 | |
| 297293034 | zaibatsu | japanese families that became powerful in banking and industry | 50 | |
| 297293035 | heliocentric | sun-centered | 51 | |
| 297293036 | imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region | 52 | |
| 297293037 | industrial revolution | period in which production of goods shifted from using hand tools to using power driven machines and from human and animal power to steam power | 53 | |
| 297293038 | laissez faire | policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference | 54 | |
| 297293039 | league of nations | group of more than 40 countries formed after ww1 with the goal of settling problems through negotiation, not war | 55 | |
| 297293040 | liberalism | way of thinking that supports personal freedom, democracy, and reform | 56 | |
| 297293041 | limited monarchy | government in which a legislative body limits the monarchs power | 57 | |
| 297293042 | meiji restoration | period from 1868 to 1912 in japan in which japan industrialized and modernized | 58 | |
| 297293043 | mercantilism | economic policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to bulid its national wealth | 59 | |
| 297293044 | militarism | the glorification of military power | 60 | |
| 297293045 | napoleonic code | legal code of napoleon that included many enlightenment ideas | 61 | |
| 297293046 | national assembly | group formed mostly by the third estate in france in 1789 with the intention of writing a new constitution | 62 | |
| 297293047 | nationalism | a feeling of pride in and devotion to ones country | 63 | |
| 297293048 | natural laws | according to some philosophers, rules that govern human nature | 64 | |
| 297293049 | opium war | conflict between great britian anf china in 1839 over the opium trade | 65 | |
| 297293050 | balance of trade | difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports | 66 |
