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| 385563869 | Expressionism | emphasizes the life of the mind and feelings rather than the realistic external details of everyday life | 0 | |
| 385563870 | Feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 1 | |
| 385563871 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 2 | |
| 385563872 | Filial piety | in Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors | 3 | |
| 385563873 | Foot binding | practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 4 | |
| 385563874 | Forbidden City | a walled section of Beijing that encloses the palace that was formerly the residence of the emperor of China | 5 | |
| 385563875 | Gao | an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States | 6 | |
| 385563876 | Ghana Empire | Traded with caravans and camels across Sahara. Controlled gold: enforcing law that only kings could own gold nuggets and kept location of gold mines secret. Also made gold scarce thus maintaining high prices fell due to expansion northward into Almoravids territory. | 7 | |
| 385563877 | Golda Meir | (1898-1978) Israeli politician; she was the prime minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War and sought assistance and supplies from the United States. | 8 | |
| 385563878 | Good Neighbor Policy | Franklin D. Roosevelt policy in which the U.S. pledged that the U.S. would no longer intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries. This reversed Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy. | 9 | |
| 385563879 | Great Leap Forward | Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years | 10 | |
| 385563880 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. (p. 385) | 11 | |
| 385563881 | Gulag | System of Siberian prison camps and penal colonies set up during Stalin's dictatorship | 12 | |
| 385563882 | Hagia Sofia | The cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian | 13 | |
| 385563883 | Hajj | the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah | 14 | |
| 385563884 | Hammurabi | King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law. | 15 | |
| 385563885 | Han Dynasty | imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy | 16 | |
| 385563886 | Harappan | a civilization that based itself on the Indus River | 17 | |
| 385563887 | Helots | Slaves to the Spartans that revolted and nearly destroyed Sparta in 650 B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 385563888 | Heirogliphics | the ancient egyption system of writing about 800 picture signs | 19 | |
| 385563889 | Hindu Beliefs | Hinduism had no single founder and no central holy figure. Their gods takes on many different forms. Moksha: Hindu belief of attaining the release from reincarnation. | 20 | |
| 385563890 | Hinduism | a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme beingof many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a | 21 | |
| 385563891 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria (p.64) | 22 | |
| 385563892 | Holy Roman Empire | Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962 to 1806. (pp. 260, 449) | 23 | |
| 385563893 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. | 24 | |
| 385563894 | IMF | a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies | 25 | |
| 385563895 | Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. | 26 | |
| 385563896 | Impressionism | a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light | 27 | |
| 385563897 | Imre Nagy | Hungarian Communist Party leader who attempted to end association with the USSR which lead to the 1956 Hungarian revolt. | 28 | |
| 385563898 | Inca | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 29 | |
| 385563899 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. (p. 663) | 30 | |
| 385563900 | Iranian Revolution | Mullahs (religious leaders) overthrow the US backed Shah and establish a theocracy (religious government) that hated the US | 31 | |
| 385563901 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth | 32 | |
| 385563902 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | 33 | |
| 385563903 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud | 34 | |
| 385563904 | Karl Marx | German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary. With the help and support of Friedrich Engels he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894). These works explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form the basis of all communist theory, and have had a profound influence on the social sciences. | 35 | |
| 385563905 | Kenyatta | Leaders of nonviolent independence, imprisoned (Mau Mau were violent); 1st prime minister of Kenya (1963); first president of Kenya | 36 | |
| 385563906 | King Leopold | King of Belgium who began imperialistic trade inside of Africa which resulted in the Scramble for Africa. | 37 | |
| 385563907 | Knight | originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry | 38 | |
| 385563908 | Laozi | the "Old Master" who encouraged people to give up worldly desires in favor of nature; he founded Taoism (Daoism) | 39 | |
| 385563909 | Lateen Sail | triangular sail that made it possible to sail against the wind; used in the Indian Ocean trade | 40 | |
| 385563910 | League of Nations | An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace. | 41 | |
| 385563911 | Legalism | In China, a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime. (p.52) | 42 | |
| 385563912 | Lenin | founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924. | 43 | |
| 385563913 | Louis XIV | king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715) | 44 | |
| 385563914 | Mahatma Gandhi | Great revolutionary who led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience based upon Henry David Thoreau's doctrines. | 45 | |
| 385563915 | Mali Empire | Formed in 1240 when Sundiata took control of Ghana Empire. It controlled trade across Sahara, the South and the Niger River. | 46 | |
| 385563916 | Manchuria | Region of Northeast Asia bounded by the Yalu River on the south and the Amur River on the east and north. (p. 354) | 47 | |
| 385563917 | Mandate | a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves | 48 | |
| 385563918 | Manioc | cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems | 49 |
