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49 Cards in this Set
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to absorb or adopt to a different culture |
assimilate/acculturate
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right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their countries while in a different country |
Extraterritorial Rights
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Right given to Spanish colonists to get tribute from the natives |
Encomienda
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A person born in a Spanish colony, of European descent. |
Creole
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Head of the cabinet in a parliamentary government. |
Prime Minister
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Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean |
Monsoons
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A Member of the Enlightenment, French term for philosopher |
Philisophe
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Isolation of women in separate quarters in India |
Purdah
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A type of literature that mocks something, The Divine Comedy is an example |
Satire
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The belief in EUROPE that rulers were given authority by God |
Divine Right
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Economic theory focusing on maintaining a favorable trade balance |
Mercantilism
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Cold War Peace Conference in 1964 |
Geneva Convention
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Modern day Beijing, capital of the Ming and Qing Empires |
the Forbidden City
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document that aimed to limit European interference in the Western Hemisphere, 1823 |
Monroe Doctrine
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Person responsible for the establishment of the first Fascist state |
Mussolini
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Leader of the Indian Independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance, led nonviolent demonstrations against British colonial rule |
Gandhi
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a system where people would promise work in exchange for passage to the new world |
Indentured Servitude
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his peace negotiations led to the end of the Cold War and political supremacy of the Communist Party |
Gorbachev
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Roman law was recorded on these |
Twelve Tables
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Three Presidents that increased military involvement in Vietnam |
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Roosevelt
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A device that determined a boat's latitude by the position of the stars |
Astrolabe
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The study of the origin and development of people and society |
Anthropology
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the practice that allowed men to have more than one wife |
Polygamy
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A person, in a Spanish colony, of African and European descent |
Mulatto
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Hindu custom of a women joining her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral fire |
Sati
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Disease caused by the lack of Vitamin C |
Scurvey
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term for a wondering poet during the Middle Ages |
Troubadour
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The Samurai code of conduct |
Bushido
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Policy of strict racial segregation in South Africa |
Apartheid
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title for a successor of Muhammad as a political and religious leader of Muslims |
Caliphs
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After this event, the US promised to remove missiles from Turkey and not to invade Cuba |
Cuban Missile Crisis
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"Window to the West" |
St. Petersburg
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U.S.S.R. Expanded |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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People of Greece who were bound to the land and outnumbered Spartans 10:1 |
Hellots
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famous pan-Hellenic festivals |
Olympics
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In the 900s, a large land empire, present day Germany |
Holy Roman Empire
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a project started by Shi Huangdi, completed under the Ming Dynasty |
Great Wall of China
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this person established punishment standard for violators in Babylon, "an eye for an eye" |
Hammurabi
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FDR called this day a "date which will live in infamy" |
Pearl Harbor, December 7 1941
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indo-European nomads, migrated through the Hindu Kush mountains in 1500 BCE |
Aryans
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Chronology:
Joan of Arc, The Black Death, Peloponnesian War, Zhou dynasty, Alexander II frees serfs |
1st: Zhou dynasty (1000BCE)
2nd: Peloponnesian War (490 BCE) 3rd: The Black Death (1347) 4th: Joan of Arc (1431) 5th: Alexander II frees serfs (1861) |
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Revolutions of 1848, Russo-Japanese War, Hitler rise to power, US withdraws from Vietnam, fall of the Soviet Union |
1st: Revolutions of 1848 (Italy, France, Germany & Austria)
2nd: Russo-Japanese War (1905) 3rd: Hitler rise to power (1933) 4th: US witdraws from Vitnam (1973) 5th: fall of the Soviet Union (1991) |
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American Revolution, French Revolution, Treaty of Versallies, WW2, WW1 |
1st: American Revolution (1776)
2nd: French Revolution (1789) 3rd: WW1 (1914-1918) 4th: Treaty of Versallies (1919) 5th: WW2 (1939) |
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Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister, Cuban Missile Crisis, League of Nations, Crimean War, Haiti gains independence |
1st: Haiti (1804)
2nd: Crimean War (1853) 3rd: League of Nations (1919) 4th: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 5th: Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister (1979) |
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Wealth of Nations published, Epic of Gilgamesh, Memoirs of Prince Metternich, Mein Kempf, Christopher Columbus' journals |
1st: Epic of Gilgamesh (BCE)
2nd: Christopher Columbus (1492ish) 3rd: Wealth of Nations (1776ish) 4th: Memoirs of Prince Metternich (1814) 5th: Mein Kempf (1920s) |
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Phoenicians make alphabet, Ashoka converts, Rome attacked by Visogoths, Pizzaro conquers, Bay of Pigs |
1st: Phoenicians (1150s BCE)
2nd: Ashoka (270 BCE) 3rd: Rome sacked (410) 4th: Pizaro (1532) 5th: Bay of Pigs (1961) |
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United Nations Created, Pearl Harbor, Tet Offensive, Chernobyl accident in USSR, sinking Lusitania, World Trade Center BOOM |
1st: Sinking of Lusitania (1915)
2nd: Pearl Harbor (1941) 3rd: United Nations (1945) 4th: Tet Offensive (1968) 5th: Chernobyl (1986) 6th: WTC (2001) |
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Matthew Perry open trade in Japan, 7 years war, Simon Bolivar fights for independence, slaver ends in US, Germany unified |
1st: 7 years war (1763)
2nd: Simon Bolivar (1811) 3rd: Matt Perry (1850s) 4th: Slavery ends in US (1865) 5th: Germany unified (1881) |
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Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, Julius Caesar killed, D-day, Zimmerman Note |
1st: Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
2nd: Magna Carta (1215) 3rd: Dec. of Ind. (1776) 4th: Zimmerman (1917) 5th: D-day (1944) |