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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