World Studies Flashcards
A clear appearance of something
Manifestation (n)
Done in a dramatic, serious, intense manner
Drastically (adv)
Tariff (n)
The tax or duty to be paid for exports and imports
Decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something
Crucial (adj)
The respect and admiration felt for someone’s achievements or success
Prestige (n)
A set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true
Doctrine (n)
A place or group that is different in character from what is surrounding it
Enclave (n)
Producing money or wealth
Lucrative (adj)
Produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment
Indigenous (adj)
The process of losing strength or being broken into small pieces
Disintegration (n)
To end or stop something, usually by using force
Quell (v)
The remaining part of something
Remnant (n)
Property that you received from the father when he dies
Patrimony (n)
Belonging or relating to a group or people who travel seasonally and farm during periods of settlement
Seminomadic (adj)
The total amount of money paid for loss, compensation
Indemnity (n)
To take ownership of something
Annex
A project or activity that involves many people, and that is often difficult”
Enterprise (n)
Respect and admiration for being successful or important
Prestige (n)
To become involved in something (such as a conflict) in order to have an influence on what happens
Intervention (n)
Planting or tilling
Cultivation (n)
To slow the movement, progress, or action of (someone or something)
Impede (v)
Not developed or civlized
Primitive (adj)
The middle class, which usually has traditional values
Bourgeois (n)
To record a series of events in an accurate and detailed way
Chronicle (v)
Doing something with consideration and focus on every detail
Meticulously (adv)
the curved path along which something moves
Trajectory (n)
An argument that involves many people who strongly disagree about something
Controversy (n)
A drug that is made from tree bark, used to treat malaria
Quinine (n)
Full of fear and anxiety
Frantic (adj)
Dramatic, serious, severe, intense
Drastic (adj)
Kowtow
kneel down and touch the ground with the forehead to worship or show respect as part of Chinese custom.
Barbarian
a person who lacks culture
Complacent
Extraterritorial rights
Rights of foreigners outside of their countries, negotiated by diplomats from more powerful countries.
Junks
a old traditional ship that the Chinese used to fight the Westerns.
Sovereignity
Independence for a country
Indemnity
Protection from damage, injury, financial loss or legal liability.
Prominent
well-known or easily noticed
Millenium
A period of a thousand years
hereditary privileges
a right or power inherited by the family or group members.
Ideology
Ideas or ideals that are dependent on periods and are mostly about economic or polictical theory and policies
Diplomatic
maintaining good relationships between different countries
Propaganda
Information that has been exaggerated or biased in order to support the cause.
Homogeneity
The state of being alike, similar or comparable in kind or nature, or of a similar structure or quality
suzerainty
It’s when a powerful nation controls other foreign nations. The controlled foreign nations allow them to.
Peasant
Farmers who are poor and in the lower class of society
Medieval
Relating / belonging to the Middle Ages
Penmanship
the art or skill of hand-writing
Filial piety
The responsibility of the son or daughter to be respect, good to parents.
Despot
A tyrant
Feudal
a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages that is based on the holding of all land in fiefs for fee.
Centralized
To gather everyone under the same power, authority.
Universal conscription
Forcefully enlisting, especially to the millitary services
indentured serf
A member of the lowest feudal class
expansionist
Countries stretch out their territorial land in order to get profit economically by millitary.
Gentry
people who are in high social position specifically in UK.
Tokugawa Era
A strong shogunate which rose powerfully after a protracted civil war, was the last feudal Japanese military, existed between 1603 and 1868
Sun Yat-Sen
One of the founders of Republic of China.
Shogun
General, military commander. Powerful military leader. Ruled with varying degrees of effectiveness in the name of the hereditary emperor.
Feudalism
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.
Meiji Restoration
A revolution that restored practical imperial rule to Japan under Emperor Meiji
Daimyo
most powerful feudal rulers, one of the great lords who were the vassals of the shogun. Feudal lords in the countryside.
Empress Dowager Cixi
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
preeminence
leading all others. Superior than others.
Sun Yat-sen
The first president of the Republic of China (also known as the father of modern China)
Charter Oath of 1868
The new leader who promised to create a new deliberative assembly within the framework of continue imperial rule.
Concentration
