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World Studies First Semester Final Exam
Everything learned in the first 2 quarters
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History
10th Grade
01/21/2011

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Term
Globalization
Definition
Globalization (or globalisation) describes an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and trade.
Term
Free Trade
Definition

Trade without the interference of government


Ex. no artificial barriers to trade, such as taxes, tariffs and NTBs.

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Fair Trade
Definition

trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved

usually including fair payment for producers; often with other social and environmental considerations

BENEFITS SMALLER COUNTRIES

(support of buying from small countries since prices are the same everywhere)



Term
"Americanization"
Definition

The influence of America on the culture of other contries

(businesses culture, lifestyle, and technology)

(think about Disneyland everywhere, McDonald, Americans calling Indians to fix their computer, etc) 

Term
Fundamentalism
Definition

a belief in a strict adherence to a set of basic principles (often religious in nature), sometimes as a reaction to perceived doctrinal compromises with modern social and political life.


the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth

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Monarchy
Definition

Has the following:

-Absolutism (supreme power when governing)

-Passes down authority through inheritance

 

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Theocracy
Definition
a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler
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Dictatorship
Definition
A government with an absolute ruler 
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Democracy
Definition
A government based on the ideas of the people; the citizens get to vote& elect representatives 
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Republic
Definition
 a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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Anarchy
Definition

Without law or control

(no authority controlling; organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government

Term
Meritocracy
Definition

A governen based on merit

(benefits bourgeoisie; they want to have better class status based on merit, since they have education)

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Constitutional Monarchy
Definition

-Monarchy where the king or queen's powers are limited by a set of rules (a constitution)

-a form of monarchy in which the ruler is limited by a constitution. Usually the limitations take the form of a need to consult and representative body or religious authorities.

Term
Divine Right
Definition
The rights of the King because God chose him to rule, so if you are disobeying the king, then you are going against God
Term
Capitalism
Definition
society based on making profit/capital (money)
Term
Laissez-Faire
Definition

-allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies.

-"let it be" or "leave it alone."

Term
Supply and Demand
Definition

The demands of the people (needs of certain goods from people)

 

The supply from industries to make a profit from their demands

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Socialism
Definition

Marx's theory:

production is carried out to maximize use-value (to directly satisfy human needs, or demand)

 

no need for gov. to interfere

(ex. based on one's self interest, competition and supply& demand, the economy will prosper)

Term
Communism
Definition

a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

 

more violent, wants to overthrow classes and government completely

Term
Polytheism
Definition

believing in more than one god

 

(ex. Africans & Japanese [rain gods, sun gods, etc.] )

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Monotheism
Definition

believing in only one god 

 

(ex. Catholics)

Term
Atheism
Definition
not believing in a god/religion
Term
Reactionary
Definition

-One who is opposed to change;

 

-One who is very conservative (to an extreme; would use violent to stop change)

 

-wants the "old order"

 


Term
Conservative
Definition

-likes the "old order"

-doesn't like change

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Moderate
Definition

Not standing on one side

 

In between; in the middle; indifferent

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Liberal
Definition

-wants change

-believes in equal rights & liberty

-want reform& progress

Term
Radical/Revolutinary
Definition

-wants change right away

-would use violent to have change NOW

-would start a revolution

-wants equal rights (like a liberal)

Term
Manorial
Definition

(Feudal System)

 

the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord, supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction.

Term
Crop Rotation
Definition
peasants rotating crops during medieval times in order for the soil to not lose nutrients when growing crops 
Term
Coerced Labor
Definition

forced labor

 

basically...slavery D:

Term
Burg
Definition

a city!

 

during the Medieval times

Term
Craft Guild
Definition

a Master artisan training an apprentice

 

apprentice->journeyman-> makes master piece-> Guild = :D ->Master

Term
Heresy
Definition

a belief to  a system of beliefs, especially a religion

 

heresies were beheaded in the Medieval times ; -;

Term
Vernacular
Definition

-national language

-common language 

-mother tongue

Term
Tribalism
Definition
living in tribes! :3
Term
Renaissance
Definition

-the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world;


-a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries


-based on ancient Greek ideas

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Indulence
Definition

-A payment in the Middle Ages to reach salvation 

 

-to get rid of sins by paying

Term
Relic
Definition

-a religious artifact found in the Middle Ages


-(usually fake & away to get people to pay money to the church)

 

(ex. A piece of wood from Jesus's Cross!)

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Humanism
Definition

-the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare


-emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization

through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural


-based on classical studies

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"Renaissance man"
Definition

-a well-rounded person

-a "Jack-Of-All-Trades"

-good at everything

 

(ex. well educated, know music, studies religion, etc.)

Term
Fresco
Definition
a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
Term
Utopia
Definition

  • a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
  • ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
  • an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

Term
Mercantilism
Definition
an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
Term
Cash Crop
Definition

-crops grown in America

 

-imported to Europe as profit during the Middle Ages

 

(ex. cotton, corn...etc)

 

Term
Encomienda System
Definition
A system under which the Spanish government gave the rights to Native American labor to colonists.
Term
Precious Metal
Definition

Gold, silver, iron, minerals

 

for the Spanish, they believed that there were a certain amount of gold out in the world. since, gold= power. they controlled lands to find gold

Term
Chattel Slavery
Definition

Unfree and forced labor; slavery

 

(Africans-mainly in the northwest - were sold in Europe and sent through the Middle Passage to America)

Term
Tariff
Definition
A government tax on imported and exported goods
Term
Caliph
Definition
A successor of Muhammad as spiritual an temporal leader of the Muslims
Term
Tabula Rasa
Definition

 

-A young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)


-individuals born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception

Term

Salon

 

what...? isn't that where you get your hair done?

 

...not that kind, silly!

Definition

elegant drawing rooms of the wealthy upper class's great urban houses

 

-took part in conversations about the new ideas of philosophes


-brought writers & artists together with aristocrats, gov. officials, and wealthy middle-class people

 


Term
Social Contract
Definition

the concept proposed by Rousseau

 

-it says that an entire society agrees to be governed by is general will


-all individuals should be forced to abide by the general will since it represents what is best for the entire community

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Natural Rights
Definition

Rights every individual is supposed to be born with

(rights to life, liberty and property)


[everyone should be equal & have equal rights]


-argued by John Locke

Term
Secular
Definition

~worldly~

 

(ex. During the Renaissance, Italy's urban society had a secular viewpoint.)

Term
Aristocracy
Definition
an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another
Term

Enlightened Despotism

 

aka Enlightened Absolutism

Definition

a system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers

(ex. only Joseph II sought truly radical changes based on Enlightenment ideas; he:

-abolished serfdom

-eliminated death penalties

-equality in laws

-enacted religious reforms; religious tolerance)


Term

Bourgeois

 

 (according to Marxist thought)

Definition
 being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
Term

Bourgeois

 

(Pre-revolutionary France)

Definition

businessperson:

 

a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

Term
Sans-culottes
Definition

"without breeches"[image]

members of the Paris Commune who considered themselves ordinary patriots 

[image]

Term
Guillotine
Definition
instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
Term
Tithe
Definition
pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church;
(ex. "He tithed his income to the Church")
Term
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Definition
Universal manhood suffrage is a form of voting rights in which all adult males within a nation are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification. "One Man per one Vote."
Term
Plebiscite
Definition
A referendum (also known as a plebiscite or a ballot question) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal

a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance
Term
Coup d'etat
Definition
a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

sudden overthrow of government
Term
Social Pyramid
Definition
Term
Liberalism
Definition
The quality of being liberal; Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed; An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market
Term
Nationalism
Definition
lovin' yo nation! having nation pride and being unified as a state.
Term
Urbanization
Definition
make more industrial or city-like
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Textile
Definition
fabric made from different materials
Term
Union
Definition
working together, as a whole.
a set
Term
Proletariat
Definition
labor: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages;
The proletariat (from Latin proletarians, a citizen of the lowest class) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian.
Term
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Definition
In Marxism, the dictatorship of the proletariat denotes the transitional socialist State between the capitalist class society and the classless communist society.
Term
Capital
Definition
profit/ money!
Term
Restoration
Definition
the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685

the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660
Term
Alliance
Definition
a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
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Self-Determination
Definition
self-government: government of a political unit by its own people
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Filial piety
Definition
Chinese roles in society.
"father knows best" females are subordinate to ales and youngers to elders.
Term
Imperialism
Definition
a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
Term
Direct Vs. Indirect Rule
Definition
Term
Janissaries
Definition
janissary - An elite, highly loyal supporter; A soldier in a former elite Turkish guard
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Pasha
Definition
a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt
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Suttee
Definition
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
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