World History Final 2008
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- Napoleon
- Created Lycees, expanded French Empire, then fell at the Battle of Waterloo
- Father
- _____ is to Son
- Himalayas
- A mountain range to the southwest of China
- Pompeii
- city destroyed by volcanic eruption
- Older Brother
- _____ is to Younger Brother
- Mehmet II
- Renames Constantinople Istanbul
- Loess
- A yellow silt deposited by the Huang He
- Osman
- A famous warlord in the Muslim Empire
- Bronze
- A technology used for agriculture (not war) in the Shang Dynasty
- Mercantilism
- Country's power based on wealth
- Siddhartha Gautama
- Founder of Buddhism; later called "The Buddha"
- Homo Habilis
- Hominids, having stone tools
- Henry VIII
- King of England who broke away from the Church because of a wanted divorce
- Divine Right
- The belief that God picked the kings
- Shi'ites
- believed the caliph should be a descendant of Muhammad
- Printing Press
- An invention of the Renaissance that increased book production
- Neanderthals
- First hominids to show signs of rituals
- Australopithecines
- First Hominids, having opposable thumbs
- Silk
- A product of China that was kept secret within
- Haiti
- First Latin-American territory to free itself from European rule
- Hammurabi's Code
- 282 laws posted around the empire
- Copernicus
- developed the belief in the heliocentric theory
- Adam Smith
- created Capitalism
- Hinduism
- A belief system with beliefs in karma and reincarnation
- Renaissance
- An age of art and humanism in Italy
- Nationalism
- A loyalty to a nation and its culture rather than to its leader
- Nok
- First known African civilization
- Confucius
- believed in the 5 basic relationships
- Empire of Rome
- fell in 376 AD
- Aksum
- Main trade port in Adulis
- Oracle Bones
- A method of speaking to ancestors; the beginning of ideographic writing
- Middle Passage
- The voyage between Africa and the Americas that slave ships took
- Archipilago
- The geographical layout of Japan
- Fiefs
- Land given to vassals in Feudalism
- Pax Romana
- An age of peace and advancement in Rome
- Capitalism
- An economic system based on private ownership and investment of wealth for profit
- Huang He
- A river in Northern China
- Trojan War
- War between Greece and Troy over the Aegean Sea
- Feudalism
- A system of agreements: land for loyalty
- Mesopotamia
- "Land between two rivers"
- Congress of Vienna
- Restored balance of the main powers of Europe
- City of Rome
- Located between 7 hills
- Hajj
- Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca
- England
- Ended up controlling most of the Americas
- Wu Zhao
- Empress who ruled when China conquered Korea
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- The agreement to follow the new Line of Demarcation
- Battle of Talas
- A war that signified the end of the Mandate of Heaven
- Absolutism
- An age of monarchs believing they should have complete rule
- Cultural Diffusion
- Mixing Cultures
- Chivalry
- A code of law followed by knights
- Crusades
- Holy Wars between Muslims and Christians
- Mecca
- The religious center of Islam
- Edo
- The new capital of Japan, later to be named "Tokyo"
- Liu Bang
- An emperor (the first) of the Han who removed Legalism
- Daoism
- A belief system founded by Laozi
- Atlantic Slave Trade
- The buying and selling of Slaves in the Americas
- Filial Piety
- The respect for parents and elders
- Cro Magnum
- First hominids with communication and art
- Effects of the Crusades
- Pope's power decreases, increase in trade, increase in king's power
- Pax Mongolica
- Period of peace in the 13th and 14th centuries
- Charlemagne
- Leader of the Franks; called the "Roman Emperor"
- Montesquieu
- Believed powers should be separated
- Devshirme
- A system of using Janissaries as beurocrats
- Allah
- The Muslim name for God
- Peninsulares
- Men born in Spain, living in Latin America
- Homo Erectus
- Hominids, created fire
- Voltaire
- Believed in the freedom of speech
- Almavorids
- Spread Islam in Africa
- Bubonic Plague
- A disease spread after the Crusades throughout almost all of Europe
- Djenne-Djenno
- First African City
- Triangular Trade
- A network of trades touching the Americas, Africa, and Europe
- Friend
- _____ is to Friend
- Ghana
- African empire where Islam spread through
- Sunni
- believed in following Muhammad's example
- Diseases in the Americas
- Smallpox, flu, malaria, ...
- Muslim
- One who follows Islam
- Yonglo
- Emperor when Zheng He was sent out to explore
- Wang Mang
- Overthrew the Han
- Mali
- An empire in Africa associated with the Sundiata
- Ruler
- _____ is to Subject
- Caste System
- A system with the Untouchables at the bottom
- Mandate of Heaven
- The basis of the Dynastic Cycle
- Muhammad
- The founder of Islam
- Song and Tang Inventions
- Porcelain, Mechanical Clocks, Gunpowder, Paper Money,...
- Chasquis-System
- A system of running messages throughout the kingdom
- Industrialization
- Caused by crop rotation, Enclosure Movement, ...
- Taklamakan
- A desert to the west of China
- Great Canal
- connected the Huang He and the Yangtze
- Ka'ba
- An important Muslim building in Mecca
- Julius Caesar
- Killed by Senator on March 15
- Tarquin the Proud
- Last king of Rome
- The Analects
- A collection of Confucius' writings
- Thomas Hobbes
- Believed that we all have a social contract
- Reformation
- A division of the Church, creating divisions such as Lutherism and Calvanism
- Quar'an
- The Muslim bible
- Hundreds Years' War
- A war between the French and the English
- Legalism
- A belief system based off of harsh punishment for law breakers
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- A highly respected ruler during the time of the Golden Age of the Ottomans
- Middle Ages
- The age following the fall of Rome
- Taj Mahal
- A building built by Shah Jahan for his dead wife Mumtaz Mahal
- Umayyad Dynasty
- Ruled after Ali was killed and continued conquest
- Shinto
- a Japanese form of Animism; the original belief system of Japan
- Gupta Empire
- An empire run by Rapjuts
- Kamikazi
- A Japanese military force that kept Kublai Khan out of Japan
- Hijrah
- Muhammad's forced fleet to Yathrib
- Kublai Khan
- Unified China, opened up international trade, and respected Chinese customs
- Anglican Church
- The Church of England, created by King Henry VIII
- Husband
- _____ is to Wife
- Magna Carta
- A law that increased the common law and the court system
- Marxism
- A belief that all people should be given equal goods...
- Bushido
- "The Way of the Warrior"
- Yangtze
- A river in Southern China
- Anyang
- The capital of the Shang Dynasty
- Haiku
- A form of poetry with three lines
- Marx
- creator of Marxism
- John Locke
- Believed that we all have natural rights
- Joint-Stock Company
- A group of people combining wealth for a common purpose
- Line of Demarcation
- A boundary drawn by the pope, giving Spain the Americas and Portugal Asia
- Hammurabi
- A ruler during the Babylonian Empire
- Han
- The empire that most Chinese people say they are descendants of