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45 Cards in this Set
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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
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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
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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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