World Themes
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- Samsara
- cycle of birth and rebirth
- Shinto
- veneration of nature spirits
- Catherine the Great
- enlightened despot; expanded Russia
- White man's burden
- poem about imperialism
- Jati
- refers to arising of new living entity
- Buddhism
- teachings of Buddha... Nirvana... enlightenment
- Byzantine Empire
- Capitol=Constantinople... many Greeks
- shogun
- military leader
- boyares
- member of the highest rank of feudal Russia
- imperialism
- extending a nation by territorial conquest
- dharma
- right way of living... order of nature and life.
- feudal system
- strong social pyramids... lords, fiefs, vassals etc
- Archipelago
- chain or cluster of islands
- Kami
- spirits or objects in Shintoism
- Plekhanov
- Russian Revolutionary; first Marxist
- Meiji Restoration
- overthrew Tokugawa shogunate and restoration of military rule
- Varna
- caste system
- Eightfold path
- fourth part of Four Noble Truths; meditative discipline
- Ronin
- master-less Samurai
- Ivan IV
- Aka Ivan the terrible. First tsar of Russia
- Nicholas II
- last Tsar of Russia. Ruled during WWI
- cultural diffusion
- spread of ideas and items between cultures
- Ali Jinnah
- Muslim leader and creator of Pakistan
- Father Gapon
- Russian orthodox priest. Popular working class leader
- Sepoy Mutinity
- Rebellion 1857; India; East India Company; British expansion
- Brahmins
- priestly class in India
- Crimean War
- Imperial Russia vs. France and UK over holy land
- caste system
- Indian class system
- Mahatma Ghandi
- political and spiritual leader of India and Indian independence movement.
- Confucius
- Chinese teacher; Confucianism= based on social relationships and behavior
- Peter the Great
- ruled Russia. Westernization and expansion...
- colonialism
- extension of a nation's territory by settling colonies
- ethnocentrism
- look at the world in on your perspective
- Bushido
- code of the Samurai
- Siddhartha Gautama
- founder of Buddhism. Spiritual teacher from ancient India. AKA Buddha
- Daimyo
- most powerful Japanese feudal rulers
- peninsula
- piece of land bordered by three sides of water
- Tokagawa Japan
- feudal Japan. Ruled by shoguns of Tokugawa family
- Seppuku
- Japanese ritual suicide
- Alexander II
- tsar.... emancipated serfs
- Samurai
- warrior
- enlightenment
- Nirvana->liberation. Freedom from the cycle of life
- Four Noble Truths
- Buddhism teachings to reach enlightenment
- Commodore Perry
- opened trade between US and Japan
- Yatoi
- hired foreigners to assist westernizing Japan