final Terms
The Vocabulary you need to know for the final
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- democracy
- government in which the people hold ruling power
- cultural diffusion
- spread of ideas, customs and techniques from one people to another
- ayatollah
- title given to Shiite Muslim legal expert
- capital
- money or wealth
- Treaty of Portsmith
- a treaty that gave Japan control of Korea and parts of Manchuria in 1905
- enclosure
- the process of taking over and fencing off public lands
- filial piety
- respect for parents
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- a document that ended papal authority over the French church and idssolved convents and monestaries
- boyars
- landowning nobles in Russia under the czars
- mercantilism
- policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver
- Green Revolution
- new methods to increase crop output to help the food supply in India
- Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen
- a French document that stated all men were born free and equal in rights
- reincarnation
- in hinduism, the belief in the rebirth of the soul in another bodily form
- nationalism
- a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
- Napoleonic Code
- a code that embodied Enlightenment principles such as the equality of all citizens before the law, religiouis toleration, and advancement based on merit
- zaibatsu
- powerful banking and industrial families in Japan
- trade surplus
- situation in which a country exports more than it imports
- Utilitarianism
- idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
- mercenary
- soldier serving in a foreign army for pay
- theorcracy
- government run by church leaders
- Diet
- assembly or legislature
- tariff
- a tax on imported goods
- viceroy
- one who governed India in the name of the British
- sepoy
- an indian soldier
- divine right
- the belief that authority to rule comes directly from God
- dissenters
- protestants whose views and opinions differed with those of the Catholic Church
- shogun
- in japanese feudal society, supreme military commander who held more power than the emperor
- May Fourth Movement
- student protests that erupted in Beijing and spread across China in response to Chines lands being given to Japan
- Code of Hammurabi
- the first major collection of laws
- urbanization
- movement of people from rural areas to cities
- habeas corpus
- principle stating that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a crime
- annul
- to cancel
- Sans-Culottes
- radical working-class men and women