Final: Midterm Flashcards
Sever trade restrictions with another country
Embargo
Nation’s basic support facilities. Roads, sewers, schools etc.
Infrastructure
Tactic to rebuke another by withdrawing from commercial or social relations. (Refuse to buy a good or service)
Boycott
Belief that one is returned to life with the same body and soul
Resurrection
Belief that someone return back to life with the same soul but a different body
Reincarnation
Taxes on foreign goods used to “equalize” international competition with domestic goods
Tariff
Use of military power to defend political interest
Militarization
The act of a political body extending its influence to outside groups either through diplomacy or force
Imperialism
Ruled by majority
Democracy
Ruled by the law
Republican
Social condition where large number of people organize for the purpose of mutual protection and advancement
Civilization
A declaration or principle which has binding force or effect
Law
Nation free of outside control
Sovereign state
Region of a nation which has been granted a degree of sovereignty
Semi-Autonomous state
One proposal that has been discussed to prevent further conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors has been to…
Merge Jewish and Palestinian land population under a unified Israeli government
How did the Israelis overcome the challenge of limited farmland?
Treated citizens and slaves equally before the law
To win battles, the Assyrians relied on what?
Terror by intimidation based on overwhelming numbers and lack of mercy
After the fail of the median coup against Cambyses, Darius and other Persian Nobles debated a new government for the empire; what form of government did they decide upon?
Autocracy
What was the goal of the Spartan army at Thermopylae?
To buy time for the rest of the Greek semis to organize
India is currently fighting with Pakistan over what region?
Kashmir
T/F: Gandhi trained as a lawyer in England
True
T/F: Italy has controlled territory in SE Asia
False
Why have southeastern Asians had a hard time establishing a unified culture?
Isolation by islands and jungles
After WWII Japan adopted a constitution which prohibits its government from declaring war. Why?
Allied powers demanded it
How did the communist gov respond to the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989?
By using military force to drive protesters from the square
T/F: Confucianism involves respect for divinity of nature and spiritual beings
False
Right of people to decide their own political future
Self-Determination
