World history pt 1
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- Depression
- period of low economic activity
- Trade embago
- a policy prohibiting trade with a particular country
- Regime
- the goverment in power
- Cottage industry
- a method of production at which task are done by individuals in their rural homes
- schism
- the seperation between the two great branches of chrisitany
- aparthed
- the system of racial segregation in South africa form the 1950 until 1991
- Judaism
- monothestic religon developed among the Israelites
- Islam
- monotheistic religon that emerged in teh Arabian peninsula during the seventh century
- humanism
- an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on teh study of the humanities, grammer, retoric, poetry, history
- green house effect
- global warming caused by the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
- budget defict
- the state that exist when a goverment spends more that it collect in revenues
- monsoon
- a seasonal wind pattern in southern Asio that blows warm, moist air from the south west during the summer, brining heavy rains, and cold, dry air from the north east during the winter
- fascism
- a political philophosy that glorifies the state aboce the individual by emphaszing the need for a strong central goverment led by a dictatrial ruler
- cold war
- the period of political tension following WWII and ending communism in the soviet Union at the end of 1981
- total war
- a war thta involves the complete mobilization of resources and people
- entrepeneur
- a person interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make profit
- polis
- the early greek city state, consisting of a city or town
- imperialism
- the extension of a nations power over other lands
- Abolitionism
- a movement to end slavery
- monotheistic
- having one god
- colody
- a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct goverment control
- nirvana
- in Buddhism, ultimate reclity, the end of self and a reunion iwth the Great World Soul
- duma
- the russian legislative assembly
- sanskirt
- the first writing system of the Arans, developed around 1000 bc
- Fresco
- a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints
- Rocaco
- an artistic style that replaced baroaue in the 1730
- magna carter
- the "Great Charter" or rights, which kings John was forced to sign by the English nobles of Rannym code in 1215
- mecenary
- a solider qho sells his services to the highest bidder
- socialism
- a system in which society usually in the form of the goverment, own and controls the means of production
- confucionism
- the system of political and ethical ideas for mulated by the chinease philosopher confucius toward the end of the zhou dynasty
- australopitecine
- "southern apes" the eariliest humal like crectures that flourshed in eastern and southern Africa three to four million years ago
- slik road
- a route between the Roman Empire and China so called, so called besauce silk was chinas most valuable product
- Great schism
- a split in teh Catholic Church that lasted from 1318 to 1418
- direct demacroacy
- a system of goverment in which the people participate directly in goverment decison making through mass meatings
- Pope
- the bishop of Rome an head of Roman Catholic Church
- Mahayna
- a school of Buddhism that developed in northwest Indad
- conservation
- a political philosphy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political autohrity and religon
- ozone layer
- a thin layer of gas in the upper atmosphere that shields fourth from the sun's ultraviolet rays
- reiehstang
- the german pariliament
- helot
- in ancient Sparta, captive proples who were fored to work for thier conquers
- aristocarcy
- an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another
- realism
- mid-ninetenth centyr movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portay lower and middle class life as it acually was