Terms C Flashcards

383050316	caliph	the chief muslim political and religious leader	0
383050317	calpulli	Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders	1
383050318	capital	the money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization	2
383050319	capitalism	an economic system based on private ownership and opportunity for profit-making	3
383050320	caravel	a small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations	4
383050321	cartels	unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods	5
383050322	Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation)	the religious reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church that occurred in response to the Protestant Reformation.	6
383050323	Central Powers	In WW1, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies	7
383050324	chinampas	platforms of twisted vines and mud that served the Aztecs as floating gardens and extended their agricultural land	8
383050325	chivalry	a knight's code of honor in medieval Europe	9
383050326	civilization	a cultural group with advanced cities, complex insitutions, skilled workers, advanced technology, and a system of recordkeeping	10
383050327	climate	the pattern of temperature and precipitation over a period of time	11
383050328	coalition	a government based on temporary alliances of several political parties	12
383050329	Code Napoleon	collection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon bonaparte	13
383050330	Cold War	the tense diplomatic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after WW2	14
383050331	collectivization	the combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm	15
383050332	Columbian Exchange	the exchange of food crops, livestock, and disease between the Eastern and Western hemispheres after the voyages of Columbus	16
383050333	commercial revolution	the expansion of trade and commerce in Europe in the 16th and 17th century	17
383050334	communism	an economic system in which the state controls the means of production	18
383050335	conscription	military draft	19
383050336	conservatism	in 19th century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches	20
383050337	containment	cold war policy of the US whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism	21
383050338	Cossacks	Russians who conquered and settled Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries	22
383050339	covenant	agreement; in the Judeo-Christian heritage, an agreement between God and humankind	23
383050340	criollos (creoles)	a term used in colonial Spanish America to describe a person born in the Americas of European parents	24
383050341	cubism	a school of art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms	25
383050342	cultural diffusion	the transmission of ideas and products from one culture to another	26
383050343	Cultural Revolution	a Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers	27
383050344	cunieform	a system of writing originating in Mesopotamia in which a wedge-shaped stylus was used to press symbols into clay	28