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| 4170286990 | Civilization | A cultural group that displays advanced cities, advanced technology, skilled workers, complex institutions ( government, religion), and a system of writing or record keeping. | 0 | |
| 4170286991 | Abacus | An ancient Chinese counting device that used rods on which were mounted movable counters. | 1 | |
| 4170288610 | Absolute Monarchy | Rule by a king or queen whose power is not limited by a constitution | 2 | |
| 4170289852 | Afrikaners | South Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africanin the seventeenth century. | 3 | |
| 4170289853 | 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 prepared for adult responsibilities | 4 | |
| 4170292007 | Agricultural Revolution | The Transition form foraging to the cultivation of food occurring about 8000-2000 BCE; also known as the Neolitic Revolution | 5 | |
| 4170347276 | Allah | The God of the Muslims; Arabic word for God | 6 | |
| 4170350845 | Alliance of Progress | A program of economic aid for Latin American in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions; pert of U.S. President Kennedy's international program. | 7 | |
| 4170624110 | Allied Powers | In World War 1, the nations of Great Britian, France, Russia, the United States, and others that fought against the Central Powers; in World War 2 , the group of nations that included the Great Britian, Hrance, the Soviet Union, and the United States that fought against the Axis Powers | 8 | |
| 4172423633 | al-Qaeda | A terrorist group based in Afganistan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. | 9 | |
| 4261360711 | Animism | The belief that Spirits inhabit the features of nature. | 10 | |
| 4261364654 | Anschluss | The German annexation of Austria prior to WW2 | 11 | |
| 4261369048 | Apartheid | The South African policy of separation of the races. | 12 | |
| 4261371052 | appeasement | Policy of Great Britian and France making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s | 13 | |
| 4261374646 | Aristocracy | Rule by the privileged hereditary class or nobility | 14 | |
| 4261378706 | Artifact | An object made by human hands | 15 | |
| 4261380073 | Artisan | A craftsmen | 16 | |
| 4261382309 | Astrolabe | A navigational instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars | 17 | |
| 4261388517 | Austronesian | A branch of languages originating in Oceania | 18 | |
| 4261392720 | Ayatollah | A traditional Muslim religious ruler | 19 | |
| 4261398138 | Ayllus | In Inca society, a clan or community that worked together on projects required by the ruler | 20 | |
| 4261401875 | Bakufu | A military government established in Japan after the Gempei Wars; the emperor became a figure head while real power was concentrated on the military including the samurai | 21 | |
| 4261412828 | Bantu-speaking people | Name given to a group of sub-Saharan African peoples whose migrations altered the society of sub-Saharan Africa | 22 | |
| 4261420694 | Benefice | In medieval Europe, a grant of land or other privilege to a vassal | 23 | |
| 4261425265 | Berlin Conference (1884-1885) | Meeting of European Imperialist powers to divide Africa among them | 24 | |
| 4261427282 | Black Death | The European name for the outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, Europe, and North Africe in the fourteenth century. | 25 | |
| 4261436118 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men who accumulated spiritual merits during their lifetimes; Buddist played to them to receive some of their holiness | 26 | |
| 4261442638 | Boer War (1899-1902) | War between the Britist and The Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa; resulted in British victory | 27 | |
| 4261448764 | Boers | South Africans of Dutch descent | 28 | |
| 4261451415 | Bourgeoisie | In France, the class of merchants and artisans who were the members of the Third Estate and the initiators of the French Revolution. In Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners | 29 | |
| 4261461687 | Boxer Rebellion (1898) | Revolt against foreign residents of China | 30 | |
| 4261464680 | Boyars | Russian nobility | 31 | |
| 4261465689 | Brahmin | A member of the social class of priests in Aryan society | 32 | |
| 4261470451 | Brinkmanship | The Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war at a sign of aggression on the part of either power | 33 | |
| 4261477101 | British Commonwealth | A political community consisting of the United Kingdom, it's dependencies, and the former colonies of Great Britian that are now sovereign nations; currently called the Commonwealth of Nations | 34 | |
| 4261487720 | Bushi | Regional military leaders in Japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortresses | 35 | |
| 4261491350 | Bushido | The code of honour of the samurai of Japan | 36 | |
| 4261494155 | Caliph | The chief Muslim political and religious leader | 37 | |
| 4261498107 | Calpulli | Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders | 38 | |
| 4261500888 | Capital | The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization | 39 | |
| 4261504272 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership and opportunity for profit-making | 40 | |
| 4261508838 | Caravel | A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and the Spanish during their explorations | 41 | |
| 4261512514 | Cartels | Unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods | 42 | |
| 4261519451 | 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 | 43 | |
| 4261528401 | Central Powers | In WW1, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies | 44 | |
| 4261536104 | Chinampas | Platforms of titis tend vnes and mud that served the Aztects as floating gardens and extended their agricultural land | 45 | |
| 4261541914 | Chivalry | A knight's code of honor in medieval Europe | 46 | |
| 4261545315 | Civilization | A cultural group with advanced cities, complex institutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and a system of recordkeeping | 47 | |
| 4261553897 | Climate | The pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time | 48 | |
| 4261555667 | Coalition | A government based on temporary alliances of several political parties | 49 | |
| 4261721372 | Code Napoleon | Collection of laws that standardised the Freanch law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. | 50 | |
| 4261726553 | Cold War | The tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and Soviet Union after World War 2 | 51 | |
| 4261734687 | Collectivization | The combination of several small farms into large government-controlled farm | 52 | |
| 4261738481 | Colombian Exchange | The exchange of food crops, livestock, and disease between the Eastren and Westren hemispheres after the voyages of Columbus | 53 | |
| 4261745384 | Commercial revolution | Th expansion of trade and commode in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | 54 | |
| 4261749126 | Communism | An economic system in which the state controls the means of production | 55 | |
| 4261752210 | Conscription | Military draft | 56 | |
| 4261753457 | Conservatism | In nineteenth-century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, ans state-established churches. | 57 | |
| 4261759749 | Containment | Cold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism | 58 | |
| 4261763504 | Cossacks | Russians who conquered and settled Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 59 | |
| 4261767527 | Covenant | Agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind | 60 | |
| 4261774765 | Criollos (Creoles ) | A term used in the colonial Spanish America to describe a person born in the Americas of Europen parents | 61 | |
| 4261778758 | Cubism | A school of art in which persons and object are represented by geometric forms | 62 | |
| 4261782425 | Cultural Diffusion | The transmission of ideas and products from one culture to another | 63 | |
| 4261785294 | Cultural Revolution | A Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish a egalitarian society of peasants and workers. | 64 | |
| 4261790509 | Cuneiform | A system of writing origination in Mesopotamia in which wedge-shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay. | 65 | |
| 4261795493 | Daimyo | A Japanese feudal lord in charge of an army of samurai | 66 | |
| 4261799080 | Dar al-Islam | The House of Islam; a term representing the political and religious unity of the various Islamic groups. | 67 | |
| 4261809030 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | A statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution. | 68 | |
| 4261818064 | 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 | 69 | |
| 4261822836 | Deism | The concept of God common to the Scientific Revolution; the deity was believed to have set the world in motion and them allowed it to operate by natural laws | 70 | |
| 4261830872 | Democracy | A political system in which the people rule. | 71 | |
| 4261837742 | Deoxyriboncleic acid (DNA) | The blueprint of heredity | 72 | |
| 4261838979 | Devshrime | A practice of the Ottoman Empire to take Christian boys form their home communities to serve as Jainissaries | 73 | |
| 4261848401 | Dharma | The position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth | 74 | |
| 4261850761 | Diaspora | The exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland | 75 | |
| 4261854573 | Divine right | The belief of absolute rulers that their right to govern is granted by God. | 76 | |
| 4261858147 | Domestic system | A manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting | 77 | |
| 4261873081 | Duma | The Russian Parliament | 78 | |
| 4261880101 | Dutch learning | Western learning embraced by some Japanese in the eighteenth century | 79 | |
| 4261930008 | Dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family | 80 | |
| 4261933107 | Economic Imperialism | Control of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation | 81 | |
| 4261936622 | Economic liberalism | The economic philosophy that government intervention in and regulation of the economy should be minimal | 82 | |
| 4261942444 | Edict of Milan | A document that made Christiamity one of the religions allowed in the Roman Empire | 83 | |
| 4261946521 | Empirical research | Research based on the collection of data | 84 | |
| 4261949266 | Enclosure movement | The fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution | 85 | |
| 4261955579 | Encomienda | A practice in the Spanish colonies that granted land and the labor of Native Americans on that land to European colonists | 86 | |
| 4261978725 | Enlightenment | A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that was based on reason and the concept that education and training could improve humankind and society. | 87 | |
| 4261993563 | Entrepreneurship | The ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production. | 88 | |
| 4261997375 | Estates | The division of society in prerevolutionary France. | 89 | |
| 4262003910 | Estates-General | The traditional legislative body of France | 90 | |
| 4262005690 | Euro | The standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002 | 91 | |
| 4262012905 | European Union | An organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promotors economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community | 92 | |
| 4262020098 | Evangelical | Pertaining to the preaching the Gospel (the good news) or pertaining to theologically conservative Christians | 93 | |
| 4262027469 | Excommunication | The practice of the Roman Catholic And other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with church teaching or practices | 94 | |
| 4262050161 | Extraterritoriality | The right of foreigners to live under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country | 95 | |
| 4262075855 | Factor | An agent with trade privileges in early Russia | 96 | |
| 4262078949 | Fascism | A political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights | 97 | |
| 4262084061 | Feminism | The movement to achieve women's rights | 98 | |
| 4262086481 | Feudalism | A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between Lord and vassal in order to provide protection | 99 | |
| 4262093040 | Fief | In medieval Europe, a grant of lan given in exchange for military or other services. | 100 | |
| 4262096222 | Filial piety | In China, respect for one's parents and other elders | 101 | |
| 4262098529 | Five Pillars | Five practices required of Muslims: faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage | 102 | |
| 4262107629 | Five-Year Plans | Plans for industrial production first introduced to the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930s | 103 | |
| 4262116269 | Footbinding | In China, a method of breaking and binding women's feet; seen as a sigh of beauty and social position, footbinding also confined women to the household | 104 | |
| 4262125200 | Foraging | A term for hunting and gathering | 105 | |
| 4262130655 | Fundamentalism | A return to traditional religious beliefs and practices | 106 | |
| 4262133387 | Geneva Conference | A 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel | 107 | |
| 4262137147 | Genocide | The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group | 108 | |
| 4262139266 | Geocentric theory | The belief held by many by many before the Scientific Revolution that the Earth is the centre of the universe | 109 | |
| 4262145084 | Glasnost | The 1985 policy of Mikhail Garbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union | 110 | |
| 4262150426 | Glorious Revolution | The bloodless overthrow of English King James 1 and the placement of Wiliam and Mary on the English throne | 111 | |
| 4262154850 | Gold standard | A monetary system in which currency is backed up by a specific amount of gold | 112 | |
| 4262159442 | Gothic architecture | Architecture of twelfth-century Europe, featuring stained-glass Windows, flying buttresses, tall spires, and pointed arches | 113 | |
| 4262169772 | Gran Colombia | The temporary Union of the northern position of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar; ended in 1830 | 114 | |
| 4262176131 | Great Depression | The severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and continued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world | 115 | |
| 4262186362 | Great Leap Forward | The disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes | 116 | |
| 4262194797 | Green Revolution | A program of improved irrigation methods and the induction of high-yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production; the Green Revolution was especially successful in Asia but was also used in Latin America | 117 | |
| 4262205128 | Griots | Storytellers of sub-Saharan Africa who carried on oral traditions and histories | 118 | |
| 4262210250 | Guano | Bird droppings used as fertilizers; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century | 119 | |
| 4262215998 | Guest workers | Workers from North Africa and Asia who migrated to Europe during the late twentieth century in search of employment; some of them settled in Europe permanently | 120 | |
| 4262227201 | Guomindang | China's Nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-Sen in 1912 and based on democratic principles; in 1925, the party was taken over by Jiang Jieshi, who made it into a more authoritarian party | 121 | |
| 4262510196 | Hadith | A collection of saying and deeds of Muhammad. | 122 | |
| 4262512334 | Hajj | The pilgrimage to the Ka'aba in Mecca required once of every Muslim who is not limited by health or financial restrictions | 123 | |
| 4262518459 | Harem | A household of wives and concubines in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia | 124 | |
| 4262523107 | Heliocentric theory | The concept that the sun is the centre of the universe | 125 | |
| 4262526072 | Hellenistic Age | The era ( c. 323 to 30 BCE) in which Greeks culture blended with other Eastren influences spread throughout the former empire of Alexander the Great | 126 | |
| 4262536018 | Helsinki Accords | A 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland by Westren European countries and the Soviet Union | 127 | |
| 4262543261 | Hieroglyphics | A system of picture writing used in Egypt | 128 | |
| 4262550430 | Hijrah | The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina ; the first year of the Muslim calendar | 129 | |
| 4262554641 | Holocaust | The Nazi program during the World War 2 that killed six million Jews and other groups considered undesirable | 130 | |
| 4262559517 | Imperialism | The establishment of colonial empires | 131 | |
| 4262562532 | Import substitution industrialization | An economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports | 132 | |
| 4262566958 | Inca | The ruler of the Quechua people of the west coast of South America; the term is also applied to the Quechua people as a whole | 133 | |
| 4262576310 | Indentured servitude | The practice of contracting with a master to provide labor for a specified period of years in exchange for passage and living expenses | 134 | |
| 4262582445 | Indian National Congress | Political party that became the leader of the Indian Nationalist Movement | 135 | |
| 4262587354 | Indo-Europeans | A group of semi nomadic peoples who, around 2000 BCE, began to migrate from Central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East | 136 | |
| 4262597564 | Indulgence | A document whose purchase was said to grant the bearer the forgiveness of sins | 137 | |
| 4262601881 | Industrial Revolution | The transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and the mechanization of production in a factory setting | 138 | |
| 4262607514 | International Monetary Fund | An international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade. | 139 | |
| 4262612619 | International Space Station | A vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that curls Earth while carrying out experiments | 140 | |
| 4262617781 | Investiture | The authority claimed by monarchs to appoint church officials | 141 | |
| 4262620587 | Jacobins | Extreme radicals during the French Revolution | 142 | |
| 4262624555 | Janissaries | Members of the Ottoman army, often slaves, who were taken from Christian lands | 143 | |
| 4262628062 | Jati | One of the many subcastes in the Hindu caste system | 144 | |
| 4262631399 | Jesuits | Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic missionary and educational order founded by Ignatius of Loyala in 1534 | 145 | |
| 4262638826 | Jihad | Islamic holy war | 146 | |
| 4262640250 | Junks | Larger Chinese sailing ships especially designated for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song dynasties | 147 | |
| 4262644734 | 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 | 148 | |
| 4262653577 | Kabuki theatre | A form of Japanese theater developed in the seventeenth century that features colourful scenery and costumes and an exaggerated style of acting | 149 | |
| 4262659123 | Kamikaze | The "divine wind" credited by the Japanese with preventing the Mongol invasion during the thirteenth century | 150 | |
| 4262663608 | Karma | In Hindu tradition, the good or evil deeds done by a person | 151 | |
| 4262666160 | Khan | A Mongol ruler | 152 | |
| 4262667117 | Kowtow | A ritualistic bow practiced in the Chinese court | 153 | |
| 4262671783 | Kulaks | Russian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy | 154 |
