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- polytheism
- belief in many Gods
- samurai
- one of the professional warriors who served Japanese feudal lords.
- Reign of Terror
- 1793-1794;Robspierre was chief of Reign of Terror, anyone who opposed French Revolution was executed.
- Renaissance
- the period of the rebirth of learning, art & culture in Europe between about 1300 and 1600
- perestroika
- Gorbachev's policy to revitalize the Soviet economy by opening it up to free enterprise & local desicion making
- Reformation
- religious movement of the 16th century, began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
- Scientific Revolution
- mid 1500s- a new emphasis on observation and reason in science, rather than a reliance on traditional knowledge
- partition
- divide into parts
- parliament
- a lawmaking body
- refugee
- a person who flees his nation to find safety
- PLO
- One time terrorist organization, now a legitimate political body - goal- to create a nation-state for Palestinians, was led by Yasir Arafat
- Quran
- the holy book of Islam
- patriarchal
- Relating to a social system in which the father is head of the family.
- Persian Gulf War
- (1991) War in which the UN forces drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
- self-dertermination
- the freedom of a people to choose their own government, and have basic human rights
- Qing Dynasty
- the last imperial dynasty of China from 1644 to 1912
- reincarnation
- in Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding
- Red Guards
- Militia units formed by young chinese people in 1966 in response to mao zedongs call for social and cultural revolution
- Pax Romana
- time of peace & prosperity for the Roman Empire that began in about 27 B.C. and lasted about 200 years
- Sepoy Mutiny
- an 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India