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World Studies Flashcards

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A clear appearance of something

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Manifestation (n)

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Done in a dramatic, serious, intense manner

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Drastically (adv)

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Tariff (n)

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The tax or duty to be paid for exports and imports

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Decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something

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Crucial (adj)

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The respect and admiration felt for someone’s achievements or success

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Prestige (n)

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A set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true

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Doctrine (n)

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A place or group that is different in character from what is surrounding it

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Enclave (n)

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Producing money or wealth

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Lucrative (adj)

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Produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment

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Indigenous (adj)

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The process of losing strength or being broken into small pieces

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Disintegration (n)

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To end or stop something, usually by using force

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Quell (v)

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The remaining part of something

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Remnant (n)

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Property that you received from the father when he dies

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Patrimony (n)

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Belonging or relating to a group or people who travel seasonally and farm during periods of settlement

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Seminomadic (adj)

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The total amount of money paid for loss, compensation

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Indemnity (n)

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16
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To take ownership of something

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Annex

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17
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A project or activity that involves many people, and that is often difficult”

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Enterprise (n)

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Respect and admiration for being successful or important

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Prestige (n)

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To become involved in something (such as a conflict) in order to have an influence on what happens

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Intervention (n)

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Planting or tilling

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Cultivation (n)

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To slow the movement, progress, or action of (someone or something)

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Impede (v)

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Not developed or civlized

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Primitive (adj)

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The middle class, which usually has traditional values

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Bourgeois (n)

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To record a series of events in an accurate and detailed way

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Chronicle (v)

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Doing something with consideration and focus on every detail

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Meticulously (adv)

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the curved path along which something moves

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Trajectory (n)

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An argument that involves many people who strongly disagree about something

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Controversy (n)

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28
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A drug that is made from tree bark, used to treat malaria

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Quinine (n)

29
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Full of fear and anxiety

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Frantic (adj)

30
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Dramatic, serious, severe, intense

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Drastic (adj)

31
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Kowtow

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kneel down and touch the ground with the forehead to worship or show respect as part of Chinese custom.

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Barbarian

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a person who lacks culture

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Complacent

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34
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Extraterritorial rights

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Rights of foreigners outside of their countries, negotiated by diplomats from more powerful countries.

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Junks

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a old traditional ship that the Chinese used to fight the Westerns.

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Sovereignity

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Independence for a country

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Indemnity

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Protection from damage, injury, financial loss or legal liability.

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Prominent

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well-known or easily noticed

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Millenium

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A period of a thousand years

40
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hereditary privileges

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a right or power inherited by the family or group members.

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Ideology

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Ideas or ideals that are dependent on periods and are mostly about economic or polictical theory and policies

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Diplomatic

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maintaining good relationships between different countries

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Propaganda

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Information that has been exaggerated or biased in order to support the cause.

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Homogeneity

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The state of being alike, similar or comparable in kind or nature, or of a similar structure or quality

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suzerainty

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It’s when a powerful nation controls other foreign nations. The controlled foreign nations allow them to.

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Peasant

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Farmers who are poor and in the lower class of society

47
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Medieval

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Relating / belonging to the Middle Ages

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Penmanship

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the art or skill of hand-writing

49
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Filial piety

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The responsibility of the son or daughter to be respect, good to parents.

50
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Despot

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A tyrant

51
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Feudal

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a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages that is based on the holding of all land in fiefs for fee.

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Centralized

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To gather everyone under the same power, authority.

53
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Universal conscription

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Forcefully enlisting, especially to the millitary services

54
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indentured serf

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A member of the lowest feudal class

55
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expansionist

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Countries stretch out their territorial land in order to get profit economically by millitary.

56
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Gentry

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people who are in high social position specifically in UK.

57
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Tokugawa Era

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A strong shogunate which rose powerfully after a protracted civil war, was the last feudal Japanese military, existed between 1603 and 1868

58
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Sun Yat-Sen

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One of the founders of Republic of China.

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Shogun

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General, military commander. Powerful military leader. Ruled with varying degrees of effectiveness in the name of the hereditary emperor.

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Feudalism

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The social system in which the normal people work for the nobels. In the opposite, the people will receive land and protection from the nobels.

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62
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Meiji Restoration

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A revolution that restored practical imperial rule to Japan under Emperor Meiji

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Daimyo

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most powerful feudal rulers, one of the great lords who were the vassals of the shogun. Feudal lords in the countryside.

64
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Empress Dowager Cixi

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The last emperess of Qing Dynasty

  • Used naval money for her summer palace
  • Used jade cups and golden chopstics for eating
  • 150 dishes for meals
65
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preeminence

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leading all others. Superior than others.

66
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Sun Yat-sen

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The first president of the Republic of China (also known as the father of modern China)

67
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Charter Oath of 1868

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The new leader who promised to create a new deliberative assembly within the framework of continue imperial rule.

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69
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Concentration

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