World History Vocab Review

whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements of theChinese economy?

What is the most important effect of the expansion of Islam on Medieval Europe? 

Japan’s warrior class, developed as political power became increasingly decentralized

tax paid by dhimmis in Muslim-ruledterritory in return for freedom to practice their religion

British economist who argued that governmentactions and programs could moderated recessions

What is similar between the Muhgal and Ottoman Empire

France lost its colonial holdings in India and North America as a result of what?

Region south of the Sahara Desert in Africa

the most famous existing literary work from ancient Mesopotamia

During the French Revolution, declared they were the sole authority to make laws for thecountry

leader of India’s AllIndia Muslim League and first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan

Mongol dynasty that ruled China from 1271-1368

The Mongol Empire contributed to all of the following EXCEPT

professional merchants in the Aztec Empire whose wealth often elevated them to elite status

boys of slave origins, the elite infantryforce of the Ottoman Empire

act of an Indian widow following her husband to death bythrowing herself on his funeral pyre

org. est. by Western-educated elite Indians in an effort to win avoice in governance of India

Chinese initiative led by Mao Zedong that was intended to promoteindustrialization and tech.

ruler of the Carolingian Empire(ruled 768-814), who staged an imperial revival in WesternEurope

military alliance among Germany, Italy, andJapan

What can we tell about Babylonian society from the Code Of Hammurabi?

an Italian Renaissance writer and politician (1469-1527) whose famous work was The Prince

A civilization in the area of present-day Lebanon, creators of the first alphabetic writing

The Industrial Revolution in England was first based around what industry?

is the force generated by one’s behavior in a previous life that decides the caste level

a significant syncretic religion that evolved in India, blending elements of Islam and Hinudism

meaning non-religious or separated from religion

Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city

ideological foundation of China, belief that a ruler held authority by command of divine force 

The economic, political, or cultural domination of one country by another

political-religious system which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment

An application of the concept of “survival ofthe fittest” to human history

One of the main goals of the 1910 Mexican Revolution was

the first great Greek philosopher to turn rationalism towardquestions of human existence

Name given to Russia by the Mongols after they conquered it

the Egyptian variety of Christianity

military and political alliance, anti-communist countires

What contributed to the growth of nationalism from 1750-1900?

principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of ppl

Term that Marx used to describe the owners of industrial capital (factories, machines etc.)

South African political party est by elite Africans who wanted acceptance in colonial society

wedged-shape writing in the form of symbolsincised into clay tablets

The first Prime Minister of India

nomadic cattle-keeping people of what is now Kenya and Tanzania

emerged in Song China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding Buddhist and Daoist elements

The representative legislative body in countries normally associated with a Prime Minister

the name given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves

colored knotted cords that served as an accounting device for the Inca

Who did the Japanese and Ottomans use as a model for their military?

elected representative assemble grudgingly created in Russia by Tsar Nicholas II

Process which hand-made products are replaced by ones made by machines

What coercive labor system did Russia practice up until the 1860s?

Term that Karl Marx used to describe the industrial working class

who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917?

former slave and leader of the HaitianRevolution

Islamic religious scholars

moveable type was re-invented by this man in the15^th century

Who absorbed a large amount of the world's silver?

Which describes the Maya political structure?

South African whites limited African social and political integration in every possible way.

the taming and the changing of nature for thebenefit of humankind

Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai

Islamic law, dealing with all matters of bothsecular and religious life

What product linked Great Britain, India and China?

important Shiaayatollah who became the leaderof Iran’s Islamic revolution

Period when military rulers of Japan who established a “closed door” policy toward Europeans 

a term typically used to denote the stabilityand prosperity of the early Roman Empire

the system of social organization in India that has evolved over a thousand years

The social, economic and political system of Medieval Europe and Tokugawa Japan

peasant revolt in China in 184 C.E. that helped to lead tothe fall of the Han Dynasty

Han emperor who began theChinese civil service system est. an academy to train bureaucrats

internationalbody representing 149 nations that negotiates the rules for global commerce

Meeting which Otto Van Bismark called to regulate partitioning Africa

Sui dynasty emperor that unified China.  He used Buddhism to justify his military campaigns

focusing peoples’ loyalty on the notion that they are part of a unique “nation”

Major effect of Bantu migrations?

Extreme nationalism, glorification of the military, loyalty to the state are elements of

What contributed to the fall of the Roman and Abbasid Empires?

farmingin which peasant families produced crops largely for their own needs

The development and spread of Buddhism and Christianity were similar in the following EXCEPT

the Chinesenationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek

the earliest religious texts of India, acollection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals

highly successful general in the French army who seized power in 1799.

Mikhail Gorbachev’spolicy of “openness” which allowed greater freedom and ended most censorship