389154265 | Geneva Conference | a 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel | 1 | |
389154266 | genocide | the systematic killing of an entire ethnic group | 2 | |
389154267 | geocentric theory | the belief held by many before the Scientific Revolution that the earth is the center of the universe | 3 | |
389154268 | glasnost | the 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union | 4 | |
389154269 | Glorious Revolution | the bloodless overthrow of English King James 1 and the placement of William and Mary on the English throne | 5 | |
389154270 | gold standard | a monetary system in which currency is backed up by a specific amount of gold | 6 | |
389154271 | Gothic architecture | architecture of twelfth-century Europe, featuring stained-glass windows, flying buttresses, tall spires, and pointed arches | 7 | |
389154272 | Grand Colombia | the temprary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar; ended in 1830 | 8 | |
389154273 | Great Depression | the severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and continued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world | 9 | |
389154274 | Great Leap Forward | the disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes | 10 | |
389154275 | Green Revolution | a program of improved irrigation methods and the introduction of high-yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production; the Green Revolution was especially successful in Asia but also was used in Latin America | 11 | |
389154276 | griots | storytellers of sub-Saharan Africa who carried on oral traditions and histories | 12 | |
389154277 | guano | bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century | 13 | |
389154278 | guest workers | workers from North Africa and Asia who migrated to Europe during the late twentieth century in search of employment; some guest workers settled in Europe permanently | 14 | |
389154279 | Guomindang | China's Nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and based on democractic principles; in 1925, the party was taken over by Jiang Jieshi, who made it into the more authoritarian party | 15 |
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