Terms D Flashcards

387689183	daimyo	a Japanese feudal lord in charge of an army of samurai	0
387689184	Dar al-Islam	the house of islam; a term representing the political and religious unity of the various Islamic groups	1
387689185	Declaration of the Rights of Man	a statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution	2
387689186	Declaration of the Rights of Women	a statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man	3
387689187	Deism	The concept of God common to the scientific revolution; the deity was believed to have set the world in motion and then allowed it to operate by natural laws	4
387689188	democracy	a political system in which the people rule	5
387689189	DNA	the blueprint of heredity	6
387689190	devshirme	a practice of the Ottoman Empire to take Christian boys from their home communities to serve as Janissaries	7
387689191	dharma	the position in the Hindu caste system that was determined by one's birth	8
387689192	diaspora	the exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland	9
387689193	divine right	the belief of absolute rulers that their right to govern is granted by God	10
387689194	domestic system	a manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting	11
387689195	Duma	the russian parliament	12
387689196	Dutch learning	Western learning embraced by some Japanese in the eighteenth century	13
387689197	dynasty	a series of rulers from the same family	14