Global vocab Flashcards
Colonization
WHEN A COUNTRY TAKES
OVER ANOTHER AREA
AND SETS UP A
GOVERNMENT THERE
Marxism
Synonym for communism
Dynasty
A FAMILY OF
HEREDITARY RULERS
*FAMILY RULE IS PASSED
FROM GENERATION TO
GENERATION
Anthropologist
A PERSON WHO
STUDIES THE WAY
PEOPLE LIVE
Ethnocentrism
THE BELIEF THAT
ONE’S ETHNIC GROUP
IS BETTER THAN
OTHERS
Caste System
A SOCIAL CLASS
SYSTEM IN INDIA
WITH NO SOCIAL
MOBILITY
Mercantilism
A POLICY OF
EXPORTING MORE THAN
IMPORTING AND
BUILDING STORES OF
GOLD AND SILVER
Urbanization
PEOPLE MOVING FROM
RURAL AREAS (COUNTRY
SIDE) TO URBAN AREAS
(CITIES) TO FIND JOBS
* DEVELOPING NATIONS
Assimilation
WHEN A GROUP IS
ABSORBED INTO A
NEW CULTURE
Genocide
SYSTEMATIC
ELIMINATION OF A
PARTICULAR GROUP
OF PEOPLE