Final Flashcards
Anarchy
A state of disorder due to absence of nonrecognition of authority or other controlling systems
Oligarchy
A small group of people having control of country, organization, or institusion
Republic
A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives and which has elected nominated president rather than a monarch
Monarchy
A form of government with a Monarch at the head
Democracy
A system of government by which the whole population or all the eligible members of a state typically through elected representatives.
Socialism
A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
Theocracy
Government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Dictatorship
Government by a dictator or one single person with all the power.
serf
An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord’s estate
knight
A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor
Lord
Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler
King
The male ruler of an independent state especially one who inherits the position by right of birth
Pope
The Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church
Feudalism
A social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return.
Feudalism Hierarchy
At the top of the hierarchy in the feudal system was a king, traditionally owned all land and granted it directly to noblemen known as lords who held heredity rights to it.
Hinduism
A major religious and cultural tradition of south Asia, which developed from Vedic religion
Buddhism
A widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century BC
Judaism
The monotheistic religion of the Jewish people
Christianity
The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices
Islam
The religion of the Muslim, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammed as the prophet of Allah
Bubonic Plague
The most common form of plague in humans. characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of buboes.
Hump of Africa
The massive shoulder of Africa that protrudes into the Atlantic Ocean.
Lineage Group
The decent group reckoned through only one parent either the father or the mother.
Nazca Lines
A group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru.
The Long Count
an astronomical calendar with each universal cycle lasting 2,880,000 days.
Maya
A modern-day group of people who live across the globe and their ancestors who built an ancient civilization that stretched across much of Central America
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist.
Martin Luther
Fractionalizing the Catholic Church and sparking the protestant reformation
Catholic Church Influence in Latin America
The lingering effects of Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the region and the Roman Catholic missions that accompanied those endeavours
Ottoman Empire
An empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern
The Hermit Kingdom
Any country organization or society that willfully walls itself off either metaphorically or physically from the rest of the world.
John Locke’s and Rousseau’s ideals
the individual should never be forced the give up his or her natural rights to a king
what 3 issues caused French peasants to rebel
the estate system, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution
Social changes brought on by the Industrial Rev
rapid urbanization or the movement of people to the cities
Second industrial rev
Encompassing most of the second half of the nineteenth century
Social Darwinism
the theory that individuals groups and people are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals
John Hay- Open Door Policy
establishing equal access to commerce would benefit American traders and the U.S. economy and hoped that the Open Door would also prevent disputes between the powers operating in China.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche.
Sun Yat-sen
Sun was a Chinese statesman physician and political philosopher who served as the first provisional president of the republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang
reason for European nations to search for colonies overseas
felt that colonies were crucial to military power national security and nationalism
Industrialization’s Impact on the Military
New military machinery could be produced ar much larger scale and at a much faster rate than before
Serbia and Austria Hungary
Killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Women’s new role in the work force
employment for women went from 8% to 47%
Russia’s provisional Government mistake
To carry on the war
Total War
mobilization refusal to compromise the blurring of roles between soldiers and civilians and total control of society.
No-Mans-Land
inhabitable and unknown land between or in the middle of the battlefield.
Self-determination
Nation a group of people with similar political ambitions can seek to create its own independent government state
Conscription
compulsory enlistment for state service typically into the armed forces
Mobilization
the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.
Planned Economies
Another term for a command economy
War of Attrition
A prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other through a series of small-scale actions
Woodrow Wilson
after a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of world war I Wilson led America into the war in order to make the world safe for democracy
Treaty of Versailles
was a peace treaty signed on June 28 1919 at the most important treaty of the world, it ended the state of war between Germany and the rest of the world
Bolshevik Rev
The Russian Revolution was a series of uprisings from 1905 to 1917 led by peasants, laborers, and Bolsheviks against the failed rule of the czarist Romanovs.
triple Alliance
Germany Austria and ottoman empire
Triple Entente
Great Britain France and Russia
Schlieffen Plan
in case of the outbreak of war, Germany would attack France first and then Russia.
