383050316 | caliph | the chief muslim political and religious leader | 0 | |
383050317 | calpulli | Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders | 1 | |
383050318 | capital | the money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization | 2 | |
383050319 | capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and opportunity for profit-making | 3 | |
383050320 | caravel | a small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations | 4 | |
383050321 | cartels | unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods | 5 | |
383050322 | Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation) | the religious reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church that occurred in response to the Protestant Reformation. | 6 | |
383050323 | Central Powers | In WW1, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies | 7 | |
383050324 | chinampas | platforms of twisted vines and mud that served the Aztecs as floating gardens and extended their agricultural land | 8 | |
383050325 | chivalry | a knight's code of honor in medieval Europe | 9 | |
383050326 | civilization | a cultural group with advanced cities, complex insitutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and a system of recordkeeping | 10 | |
383050327 | climate | the pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time | 11 | |
383050328 | coalition | a government based on temporary alliances of several political parties | 12 | |
383050329 | Code Napoleon | collection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon bonaparte | 13 | |
383050330 | Cold War | the tense diplomatic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after WW2 | 14 | |
383050331 | collectivization | the combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm | 15 | |
383050332 | Columbian Exchange | the exchange of food crops, livestock, and disease between the Eastern and Western hemispheres after the voyages of Columbus | 16 | |
383050333 | commercial revolution | the expansion of trade and commerce in Europe in the 16th and 17th century | 17 | |
383050334 | communism | an economic system in which the state controls the means of production | 18 | |
383050335 | conscription | military draft | 19 | |
383050336 | conservatism | in 19th century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches | 20 | |
383050337 | containment | cold war policy of the US whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism | 21 | |
383050338 | Cossacks | Russians who conquered and settled Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries | 22 | |
383050339 | covenant | agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind | 23 | |
383050340 | criollos (creoles) | a term used in colonial Spanish America to describe a person born in the Americas of European parents | 24 | |
383050341 | cubism | a school of art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms | 25 | |
383050342 | cultural diffusion | the transmission of ideas and products from one culture to another | 26 | |
383050343 | Cultural Revolution | a Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers | 27 | |
383050344 | cunieform | a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay | 28 |
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