Thursday, May 24, 2012

Regents Vocabulary (Must Read!) Print or make flash cards



Vocabulary – Word Association 

●Neolithic 
farming 
agriculture 
domestication 
settled villages 
allowed civilization 
● Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent 
river valley 
cuneiform 
● Egypt 
Nile River valley 
pharaoh 
pyramid 
● Indus River Valley civilization 
strong government 
urban planning 
● Huang He (Yellow River) 
Chinese civilization 
river valley 
● Hammurabi 
code of law 
eye for an eye 
● Phoenicians 
trade 
alphabet 
cultural diffusion 
● Judaism 
Jews 
Hebrews 
monotheistic 
Ten Commandments → morals/ethics 
● Hinduism 
India 
polytheistic 
reincarnation 
dharma & karma 
caste system 
● caste system 
India 
untouchables 
Hinduism 
rules 
● Buddhism 
India 
Four Noble Truths 
Eightfold Path 
life is suffering 
reincarnation 
● Mandate of Heaven 
China 
divine right 
dynastic cycle 
● Confucianism 
China 
Five Key Relationshipsproper behavior 
filial piety 
government and society 
civil service system 
● Greece 
city-states 
direct democracy Athens, Pericles 
architecture 
● Rome 
Pax Romana golden age 
law 
● Maya, Aztec, Inca 
advanced in math & astronomy 
adapted to geography 
● Charlemagne 
Holy Roman Empire 
feudalism 
● feudalism 
king, lords, knights, peasants & serfs 
chivalry 
● manor/manorialism 
self-sufficient 
● capital 
money for investing 
● Magna Carta 
England 
limited king 
● Parliament 
England 
legislative body 
House of Lords 
House of Commons 
● Estates General 
France 
legislative body 
● crusades 
Holy Land 
trade 
● Black Death 
fleas & rats 
disruption 
● Justinian’s Code 
Byzantine Empire 
Roman law 
● Islam 
Mecca 
Muhammad 
monotheistic 
Five Pillars duties/ethics 
Sunnis & Shiites 
● Muslim Empire 
advanced 
extensive trade 
cultural diffusion 
tolerance 
● Mughal 
India 
Muslim 
Akbar the Great religious tolerance 
● Africa (geography) 
Sahara 
savanna 
diversity 
● Ghana, Mali, Songhai 
western Africa 
trading kingdoms 
● Mongols 
Genghis Khan 
Kublai Khan China 
cultural diffusion 
isolated Russia 
● Tokugawa 
Japan 
shoguns 
isolation 
● Renaissance 
Italy 
arts 
humanism secular, Greece & Rome 
● Protestant Reformation 
Martin Luther 
95 Theses 
indulgences 
● Scientific Revolution 
observation & experimentation 
Galileo 
Copernicus 
heliocentric 
● Cortes 
conquistador 
Aztec 
● encomienda 
Spanish colonies 
plantations 
slavery 
● capitalism 
private investment in businesses 
● mercantilism 
parent country (imperial power) uses 
colonies 
tariffs 
● Louis XIV 
France 
absolute monarch 
Sun King 
Versailles 
● English Civil War (Puritan Revolution) 
Charles I beheaded 
Oliver Cromwell 
● Glorious Revolution 
English Bill of Rights 
power of the purse Parliament 
limited monarchy 
● Peter the Great & Catherine the Great 
Russia 
westernization 
modernization 
warm-water ports 
● Enlightenment 
Age of Reason 
consent of the governed 
● John Locke 
natural rights life, liberty 
● Thomas Hobbes 
absolute monarchy 
● Adam Smith 
laissez faire 
free market 
supply & demand 
● French Revolution 
Enlightenment 
Third Estate 
Committee of Public Safety 
Robespierre radical 
● Napoleon 
nationalism 
Russia 
● nationalism 
pride in heritage 
independence 
● conservative 
upper class 
no change 
● liberal 
middle class 
change 
● Congress of Vienna 
conservative victory 
flaw: ignored nationalism 
● Karl Marx 
class struggle 
communism 
bourgeoisie 
proletariat 
means of production 
● Simon Bolivar, San Martin, L’Ouverture 
Latin America 
nationalism 
independence 
● industrialization 
factories 
machines 
● Social Darwinism 
survival of the fittest group 
racism 
justification for imperialism 
● Opium War 
China vs. Britain 
nationalism 
end foreign influence 
Britain better weapons 
● Ireland 
potato famine 
starvation 
● Otto von Bismarck 
Germany 
unification 
nationalism 
● Mazzini, Cavour, Garibaldi 
Italy 
unification 
nationalism 
● Imperialism 
strong country dominates weak 
natural resources 
● White Man’s Burden 
justification for imperialism 
● Berlin Conference 
imperialism 
Africa 
● Suez Canal 
Egypt 
Britain 
shortcut to India 
● Sepoy Rebellion 
India 
nationalism 
● Muslim League 
India 
Pakistan 
● Boxer Rebellion 
China 
nationalism 
against foreigners 
● Meiji 
Japan 
modernization 
industrialization 
westernization 
imperialism needed resources 
● World War I 
militarism 
alliances 
imperialism 
nationalism 
Central Powers 
Allies 
new weapons high casualties 
● Treaty of Versailles 
ended World War I 
punished Germany reparations 
led to rise of Hitler 
● Lenin 
Russia 
Bolsheviks 
communism 
1917 
Peace, Land, & Bread 
NEP mixed communism & capitalism 
● Stalin 
USSR 
dictator 
Five-Year Plans industrialization 
collectivization state-owned farms 
totalitarian 
● totalitarian government 
no rights for citizens 
government control of media 
censorship 
propaganda 
● apartheid 
South Africa 
racial segregation 
● Ataturk 
Turkey 
modernization 
secularization 
● Zionism 
Israel 
Jews 
● Gandhi 
India 
passive resistance 
Salt March 
independence 
● Mao Zedong 
China 
nationalist 
communism 
Long March 
Great Leap Forward modernization 
Cultural Revolution 
● Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jiaeshi) 
China 
nationalist 
fought Mao 
Taiwan 
● Mussolini 
Italy 
fascism 
● fascism 
extreme nationalism 
totalitarian 
● Hitler 
Germany 
Nazi 
rose due to Treaty of Versailles 
dictator 
genocide 
Holocaust 
anti-Semitism 
● League of Nations 
after WWI 
peace keeping 
no power 
● Munich Conference 
appeasement gave in to Hitler 
● World War II 
Axis Germany, Italy, Japan 
Allies Great Britain, Russia, U.S. 
invasion of Poland 
Holocaust 
D-Day 
Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb 
● Holocaust 
genocide 
Final Solution 
● United Nations 
general assembly 
security council 
replaced League of Nations 
● Cold War 
USSR 
US & Great Britain 
superpowers 
iron curtain 
containment 
NATO 
Warsaw Pact 
arms race 
● WHO 
World Health Organization 
United Nations 
● G8 
7 wealthiest & Russia 
● IMF 
International Monetary Fund 
loans for poor nations 
● Universal Declaration of Human Rights 
United Nations 
natural rights 
● Third World 
poor 
developing 
● OPEC 
oil exporting countries 
cartel 
● deforestation 
erosion 
● urbanization 
poverty 
crime 
● Green Revolution 
farming 
increased productivity 
fertilizers & pesticides 
● Korean War 
containment 
● Vietnam 
Ho Chi Minh communist, nationalist 
containment 
● Jomo Kenyatta 
nationalism 
independence 
● command economy 
state control 
● free market economy 
supply & demand 
● EU 
European Union 
economic unification 
economic growth 
● NAFTA 
North American Free Trade Agreement 
economic growth 
● Deng Xiaoping 
China 
communist 
modernization 
free market reforms 
● Tiananmen Square 
China 
student demonstration 
massacre 
human rights abuse 
● Hong Kong 
trade & finance 
British control 
back to China 
● Pakistan 
Muslim 
● Nelson Mandela 
South Africa 
end of apartheid 
first black president 
● Israel 
Palestine 
Zionism 
Balfour Declaration 
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization 
violence 
● Iran 
shah 
revolution 
Ayatollah Khomeini fundamentalist 
end foreign influence 
● fundamentalism 
religion 
strict 
traditional 
● Gorbachev 
USSR 
Perestroika free market reforms 
Glasnost openness – human rights 
● Yeltsin 
Russia 
president after Gorbachev 
● Russian Revolution of 1991 
end of communism in Russia 
collapse of USSR 
Gorbachev & Yeltsin 
● Lech Walesa 
Poland 
solidarity workers movement 
end of communism 
● Balkans 
powder keg 
Yugoslavia 
ethnic cleansing 
Milosevic 
● Guatemala 
democracy 
● Cuba 
Fidel Castro 
communism 
● Pol Pot 
Cambodia 
dictator 
genocide 
● centralized government 
organized 
concentrated power 
● golden age 
height of a civilization 
artistic achievements 
prosperity 
● scarcity 
limited resources 
● geographic features 
mountains 
rivers 
plains 
oceans 
etc. 
● subsistence farming 
grow just enough food 
no surplus 

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