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- filial piety
- the duty and respect that children owe to their parents
- Gorbachev
- Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)
- Akbar
- the Greatest Mogul leader
- 2 Major Deserts of China:
- Takla Makan/ Gobi
- jati
- sub-caste
- sudras
- lowest caste, not untouchables
- Thar Desert
- India's longest desert that runs along India/Pakistan border
- vaisyas
- caste level 3, merchants
- Boris Yeltsin
- first elected leader of Russia, horrible economy
- Ivan IV
- set up secret police, the most powerful of the early czars. Learned, religious, and cruel. Saw treason everywhere and arrested, exiled, or excecuted many advisors, reduced boyars power, increased Russia's trade with western Europe and worked to expand borders, conquered Mongul lands to the east and south of Moscow
- mauryan empire
- first empire of India
- Valentina Tereshkova
- world's first woman cosmonaut
- Calcutta
- a city in India
- Mao Zedong
- first communist leader/ brought in communism/established red guard/ established People's republic of china/ got rid of binding feet
- Who was responsible for China's Cultural Revolution
- Mao Zedong
- Huang He
- (Yellow River) China was first developed here
- congress party
- major political party
- bureacucracy
- Gorbachev reform: huge system of officials to manage the economy; corruption
- Mir
- village organizationthat structured peasent life in Russia
- civil disobedience
- one of gandhi's methods of defiance
- Friedrich Engels
- socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895)
- Mao Zedong died in...
- 1976
- kshatriyas
- caste level 2 warriors and such
- Kulaks
- Prosperous Russian Peasents that - under Stalin - were sent to Labor Camps as punishment for being succesful
- Ghats
- mountains in Southern India
- Harappa
- indus river valley civilization
- kashmir
- northern place of conflict pakistan v. india
- Confucianism
- Beliefs putting the family and society ahead of the individual, includes the five relationships
- Northeast China:
- Machuria
- Amritsar
- where the muslim massacre in India occuered
- Buddhism
- religious system founded on the ideas of proper behavior and respect for family and ancestors
- Brezhnev
- Forced Krushchev out of office; became new communist leader of russia; got rid of dissidents
- dharma
- hindu, moral duties
- Siddartha Gautauma
- now known as the Buddha, this man started Buddhism
- ideographs
- symbols to express ideas such as beauty, joy, and justice
- Indus River
- home to acient river valley civillization
- Treaty of Nanjing
- "unequal treaty" to end Opium War in which China had to accept British terms for peace
- Checka
- Secret Police set up by Lenin to help the Bolshevik revolution
- Jinnah
- an Indian Muslim politician and leader of the All India Muslim League who founded Pakistan and served as its first Governor-General
- karma
- past lives actions
- Trotsky
- Rival of Stalin; was exiled by Stalin and later murdered by his agents
- Brahmins
- highest caste, priests and such
- madras
- a city
- Ivan III
- "The Great" first czar
- Mohandas Gandhi
- A lawyer in India who used nonviolence, and especially Civil Disobedience to end British rule in India. He was one of the many philosophers who influenced Martin Luther King Jr.; he is known as Mahatma, "Great Soul"
- Chiang Kai-shek
- (1887-1975), Chinese statesman and general; president of China 1928-31 and 1943-49 and of Taiwan 1950-75. He tried to unite China by military means in the 1930s but was defeated by the Communists. Forced to abandon mainland China in 1949, he set up a separate Nationalist Chinese State in Taiwan.
- Indira Gandhi
- Nehru's daughter and Prime Minister of India, she was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards
- Guru Nanak
- this man founded Sikhism
- Aryans
- early invaders of India
- nirvana
- buddist "heaven"
- Rajiv Ghandi
- son of Indira, and grandson of Nehru, he was assassinated
- Kublai Khan
- Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan; In 1271, he founded the Yuan Dynasty, and became the first Yuan emperor.,
- jainism
- non-violent religion, founded as a revolt against Hinduism
- cottage industry
- american made town
- Yuri Gagarin
- first man to survive a trip to space (Russia)
- Mumtaz Mahal
- had the most famous mughal tomb in Agra built for him
- herijans
- untouchables
- satyagraha
- gandhi's way of doing basically everything
- ganges
- Sacred river in india
- Sakarov
- father of Soviet Hydrogen bomb; noble peace prize for work on peace
- Lenin
- Lead the revolution, encouraged communism
- kyber pass
- where aryans invaded from
- sepoy revolt
- indian v. british, started from suspected beef on guns
- Empress Wu
- She led the Tang Dynasty (625-705 AD); Only women emperor of China; powerful and cruel, along with talented and intelligent
- Country that attacked China in WWII
- Japan
- Russian Leader that pushed for Space Technology
- Krushchev
- Dmitri Medvedev
- A dissisdent (spoke out against government)
- Daoism
- belief system emphasizing the link between people and nature rather that the importance of proper behavior
- Nicholas II
- finished the trans- siberian railroad; bloody sunday; october manifesto; the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution
- Mencius
- Confucius's greatest disciple; he has been called the second sage; wrote Analects.
- Confucius
- Chinese philosopher. His social and moral teachings, collected in the Analects , tried to replace former religious observances
- Revolution of 1911
- the revolution that resulted in China being turned into a republic soon after the death of Ci Xi
- Alexander II
- abolished serfdrom
- dowry
- extreme wedding gift to husband
- Shah Jahan
- the fifth Mogul emperor of India. During his reign, from 1628 to 1658, the Mogul Empire reached its zenith in prosperity and luxury. He built the Taj Mahal to honor the death of his beloved wife.
- Tibeten Buddhists
- Non-violent group of people from a remote region
- extraterritoriality
- Under this authority, westerners accused of a crime in China could be tried in their own courts instead of in Chinese courts
- Vladimir Putin
- succesor of Yeltsin, strong-arm methods, economy improved, however still some problems
- glasnost
- Gorbachev reform: freedom of speech; openness
- Who was responsible for the "Great Leap Foward"
- Mao Zedong
- Alexander II
- the son of Nicholas I and czar of Russia, Freed the Serfs
- Nehru
- first Prime Minister of India
- Yangtze
- Longest river in china
- Benazir Bhutto
- female leader of Pakistan; recently assassinated
- Empress Dowager Cixi
- Empress of China during early 1800's; mother of Emperor Guang, she put her son under house arrest; supported anti-foreign movements, and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
- Open Door Policy
- under this policy, all nations were supposed to have equal access to trade with China
- Legalism
- belief that government must instill fear in people through harsh laws and punishment
- Deng Xiaoping's reforms after Mao
- allowance of household algriculture, small business, one child policy, forgein investment allowed
- Kerensky
- head of 1917 provisional gov't in RUS,
- Marco Polo
- born in 1254 - Venice, Italy, set off for china in 1271, reached china in 1274, worked for Kublai Kahn, went to war with Kahn's relatives, stayed in China until age 40, died in 1324
- Kerensky
- transformed Russia from a authoritarian monarchy to the most liberal nation in the world.
- suttee
- wife suicide after husbands death
- dynastic cycle
- the rise and fall of ruling families
- hindi
- language of Hindus
- Ashoka
- leader during the Mauryan Dynasty; after witnessing the results of a gruesome battle he converts to Buddhism
- green revolution
- when India was able to food wise support themsalves in the 70's
- sphere of influence
- an area in which a foreign nation has special economic privileges, such as the right to build railroads and factories
- Mahatma
- "Great Soul"
- NEP - "New Economic Policy"
- The organization Lenin created in order to stop the government from taking crops from the peasents
- Deng Xiaoping
- Mao's successor; created the 4 modernizations, was leader when Gorbachev of the U.S.S.R came, was leader during Tiananmen Square
- Jiang Zemin
- person who assumed leadership of China after Deng Xiaoping's death
- purdah
- seclusion of women
- Pu Yi
- Last emperor of China
- rupee
- Indian currency
- Catherine the Great
- most famous woman leader, Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
- Reincarnation
- rebirth of the soul in various forms
- Tchaikovsky
- most famous composer of Russia
- The Romanovs
- They were imprisoned & exiled to Siberia & were all shot to death in 1918; the sczars of Russia
- Places in Asia w/ Serious Ethnic Conflict...
- Kashmir, Sikh nationalism, Sir Lanka
- Gupta Empire
- golden age
- Vladimir
- adopted Greek Orthodox Christianity
- Peter the Great
- created a Navy and westernized Russia
- Chandragupta Maurya
- this man established the Mauryan Empire
- Laozi
- the "Old Master" who encouraged people to give up worldly desires in favor of nature; he founded Taoism (Daoism)
- Mahavira
- He established Jainism in the 500s; He emphasized meditation, self-denial and non-violence to all living things.
- perestroika
- Gorbachev reform: made local managers; private enterprise; capitalism
- Opium War
- battle between China and Britain over the huge opium shipments being made to China that destroyed their economy
- Mao Zedong came to power in...
- 1949
- sanskrit
- aryan language
- Khrushchev
- Soviet statesman and premier who denounced stalin; reduced censorship; supported communsim