Ap world history Vocabulary Flashcards

5826138348	Tokugawa Shogunate	shogun held all the power.	0
5826139048	Silver drain	china taxes	1
5826140280	Soft gold	Nickname for animal furs which were highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status.	2
5826140986	Wahhabi islam	islamic movement led by muslim teologian abd al wahhab that advocated an austeve lifestyle and strict adherence to sharia (islamic law) PURIFICATION.	3
5826143449	Newton	English scientist; drew together astronomical and physical observations of natural laws: principles of motion/ defined forces of gravity.	4
5826145267	Voltaire	French philosopher who wrote against religious intolerance.	5
5826146328	Galileo	astronomer and mathmetician who invented an improved telescope.	6
5826147315	Napoleon Bonaparte	Overthrew french directory in 1799. Became emperor of french in 1804. Died in exile.	7
5826150440	Nationalism	The loyalty of people to their common culture, traditions, ethnicity, geographic territory, and the idea of self-rule.	8
5826151640	Trading post empire	Empire established by portuguese. Portuguese sought to control the commerce in the area, not control large areas of land.	9
5826153678	Daimyo	Individuals controlling an area and samurai worked for them.	10
5826155096	Samurai	A japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy. (leaders of the military emperor) <---- Signifigance	11
5826158362	Shogun	A hereditary military dictator of Japan. (established in place of an emperor; fractioned imperial rule.) <---- Signifigance	12
5826160837	Middle Passage	The part of the Atlantic circut involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the atlantic to the americas	13
5826162012	Kaozheng	A notion of "researched based evidence" that occurred in china as a foil to Neo-Confucian orthodoxy.	14
5826163612	Descartes	Established importance of skeptical review of all recieved wisdom; argued human reson could develop laws to explain the workings of nature.	15
5826168306	Kant	German philosopher who argued that enlightenment was the ability to know something without another's guidance. (believed in freedom of the press as a means to exercise reason publicly). METAPHYSICAL!	16
5826169795	Hobbes	Believed people by nature were greedy and prone to violent welfare. Believed in absolute monarch rule. wrote leviathan.	17
5826170844	Locke	English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract". (people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.)	18
5826173960	Rousseau	French man who believed human beings are naturally good, free and can rely on their instincts. Believed government should protect common good and be democracy.	19
5826175104	Darwin	Biologist that developed theory of evolution of species. argued that all living species evolved into their present form to survive.	20
5826175908	Marx	German philosopher who wrote the communist manifesto and Das Kapital	21
5826176654	Popular sovereignty	People hold the final authority in all matters of government.	22
5826178096	Bolivar	Leader of revolt of south american colonies against spanish rule.	23
5826178589	Estates General	French Represenative assembly caled into session to address pressing provlems caused by the french revolution. 3 estates: Clergy, nobility and the commoners.	24
5826180329	Feminist movement	Sought legal and democratic gains for women such as equal access to education, right to vote, and professions in workplace.	25
5826182232	Gens de couleur Libres	"free people of color" term used to describe freed slaves and people of mixed racial background in saint domingue. (Haitian Revolution)	26
5826187289	Maroons	Slaves who ran away from their masters.	27
5826187290	Abolition	The legal prohibition and ending of slavery.	28
5826187883	Russian Decembrist revolt	Political revolt in Russia in 1825; led by middle-level army officers who advocated reforms; put own by Tsar Nicholas.	29
5826189247	Zionist Movement	Jews allowed in palistine	30