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Mestizos

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The offspring of Europeans and Native American Indians.

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Polytheism

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Belief In Many Gods

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Chinampas

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"floating gardens"

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Conquistadors

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Sixteenth Century Spanish Conquerors motivated by glory, greed, and religious zeal.

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Encomienda

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The right given to settlers of the New World by Queen Isabella, to use natives as laborers.

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Mercantilism

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A set of principals that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century, in wich the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.

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Oligarchy

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Rule by the few.

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Monoculture

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the use of land for growing only one type of crop.

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Bourgeois

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The middle Class

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Bushido

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"the way of the warrior," the strict warrior code of Japanese samurai.

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caliph

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the secular leader of the Islamic community.

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Confucianism

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Main concepts were the "work ethic" (duty) and a sense of compassion and empathy for others.

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Creole elites

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locally born decsendants of

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Dharma

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divine law (the concept of karma is ruled by Dharma)

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Dynasty

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a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family

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Elite

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A small group of powerful people.

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Favorable balance of trade

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Nations exported goods are of greater values then those they import.

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Four modernizations
(Set up by ______)

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modernization in regard to industry agriculture, technology, and national defense--Set up by Deng Xiaoping in wich people were encouraged to work hard to benefit both themselves and Chinese society.

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FOUR OLDS

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OLD IDEAS
OLD CUSTOMS
OLD HABITS
wich red gaurds set out to eliminate by violent means during China's Cultural Revoltuion

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Great Leap Foward
(Began in ____)

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A program led by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 in the hopes of speeding up economic growth and obtaining a classeless society; existing collective farms, normally the size of a tradtional village, were combined into vast peoples communes.

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Hajj

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a pilgramge to Mecca, belived to be one of the "five pillars," or part of the ethical code of Islam.

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Islam began by ________

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Muhammed

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Jihad

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"struggle in the way of God," the custom of making raids against Islams enemies in order to expand the Islamic movement.

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Mulattoes

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The offspring of the Africans and Europeans

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Samurai

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"thoose who serve," a class of military retainers in Japan whose purpose was to protect the security and prosperity of thier patrons.

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Shogun

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"general," a poweful Japanese military leader who ruled the centralized government;

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shah

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king

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spheres of influence

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areas in China where foreign nations were granted exlusive trading rights or railroad and minign privledges

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Taoism

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a system of teachings based on the ideas of Lao Tzu; the main belief was that the true way to follow the will of Heaven is inaction--letting nature take its course and not interfreing with it.

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Berlin Confernce

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regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period,

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Monoculture

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The use of land for only growing one type of crop.

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Cash Crop Economy

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An economic system based on the exportation of certain crops such as sugar, cotton, and coffee.

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Kwame Nkruhmah

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African political leader, prime minister (1957–60) and president (1960–66) of Ghana.

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Pan Africanism

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A movement, founded around 1900, to secure equal rights, self-government, independence, and unity for African peoples.

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Balfour Declaration

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1917, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.

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Coup

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Leftist

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Rightist.

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Assimilation

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Put Tax

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Sinai Peninsula

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Cevenant

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Ho Chi Min

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Creoles

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Fidel Castro

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