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391353619	Magna Carta	a document written in England in 1215 that granted certain rights to nobles; later these rights came to be extended to all classes	0
391353620	Malay sailors	Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 CE, they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana	1
391353621	Mamluks	Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries	2
391353622	Manchus	peoples from northeastern Asia who founded China's Qing dynasty	3
391353623	mandate	a type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation	4
391353624	mandate of heaven	the concept developed by the Zhou dynasty that the diety granted a dynasty the right to rule and took away that right if the dynasty did not rule wisely	5
391353625	manorialism	the system of self-sufficient estates that arose in medieval Europe	6
391353626	Maori	a member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 CE	7
391353627	maroon societies	runaway slaves in the Caribbean who established their own communities to resist slavery and colonial authorities	8
391353628	Marshall Plan	a US plan to support the recovery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War 2	9
391353629	mass consumerism	trade in products designed to appeal to a global market	10
391353630	matrilineal	referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother	11
391353631	May Fourth Movement	a 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence	12
391353632	medieval	pertaining to the middle ages of European history	13
391353633	Meiji Restoration	the restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate	14
391353634	mercantilism	A European economic policy of the 16th-18th centuries that held that there was a limited amount of wealth available, and that each country must adopt policies to obtain as much wealth as possible for itself	15
391353635	mestizos	in the Spanish colonies, persons of mixed European and Indian descent	16
391353636	metropolitan	the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church	17
391353637	Mexica	the name given to themselves by the Aztec people	18
391353638	Middle Ages	the period of European history traditionally given as 500-1500	19
391353639	Middle Kingdom	term applied to the rich agricultural lands of the Yangtze River valley under the Zhou dynasty	20
391353640	Middle Passage	the portion of trans-Atlantic trade that involved the passage of Africans from Africa to the Americas	21
391353641	minaret	a tower attached to a mosque from which Muslims are called to worship	22
391353642	mita	a labor system used by Andean societies in which community members shared work owed to rulers and the religious community	23
391353643	moksha	in Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation	24
391353644	Mongol Peace	the period from about 1250 to 1350 in which the Mongols ensured the safety of Eurasian trade and travel	25
391353645	monotheism	the belief in one god	26
391353646	Monroe Doctrine (1823)	policy issued by the US in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers	27
391353647	monsoon	a seasonal wind	28
391353648	mosque	the house of worship of followers of Islam	29
391353649	Mughal dynasty	rulers who controlled most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries	30
391353650	mulato (mulatto)	in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, a person of mixed African and European descent	31
391353651	Muslim	"One who submits"; a follower of Islam	32
391353652	mystery religion	during the Hellenistic Age, religons that promised their faithful followers eternity in a state of bliss	33