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| ethnocentrism | a belief that your culture is superior to other cultures. |
| apartheid | policy of racial segregation in the Republic of South Africa. |
| archipelago | chain of islands |
| bushido | the way of the warrior; during the feudal period in Japan, a code of conduct for samurai, stressing obedience to one's lord |
| caliph | successor to the prophet Mauhammad who acted as both religious and political leader mad who acted as both religious and political leader |
| cash crop | crop that can be sold on the world market for money |
| caste system | social groups based on occupations Indians are born in to. |
| civil disobedience | refusal to go along with certain laws by means of passive resistence |
| cultural diffusion | when a custom or item of a culture moves from one part of the world to another |
| cultural diversity | variety of customs, ideas, and ways of living among the people within a region or nation |
| culture | customs, ideas, and way of life of a group of people |
| daimyo | land owners who were warrior knights directly below the shogun, in Japan during the feudal period |
| desertification | the spread of desert into semi-arid regions nearby |
| dynasty | ruling family that passes the right to rule from one member to another |
| extraterritoriality | the right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nations |
| hejira | Muhammad's joruney from Mecca to Medina in 622 |
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| isolationism | a policy of having little to do with foreign nations |
| karma | in Hinduism, all the actions in a person's life that affects his or her fate in the next life |
| matrilineal | describes a maily in which children trace their family line through their mother |
| minaret | slender tower from which Muslims are called to prayer |
| monotheism | worship of a single god |
| mosque | meeting place whre Muslims assemble to pray |
| nationalism | feeling of pride and devotion to one's country |
| non-alignment | foreign policy of many developing countries to remain neutral with respect to the positions of the U.S. and the Soviet Union |
| Pan-African | movement whose goal is to create a politically and economically unified Africa |
| passive resistance | nonviolent opposition and refusal to cooperate |
| patrilineal | describes a family in which children trace their family line through through their father |
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| samurai | warrior knights of Japan during the feudal period |
| shogun | after 1192, the chief general in Japan, who held more political power than the emperor |
| Long March | 6,000 mile trek taken by Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong. |
| Guomintang | Sun Yatsen's Chinese Nationalist party. |
| spheres of influence | when China was carved in to territories which let the European countries cotrol parts of China for trading. |
| filial piety | Confucius' idea of showing loyalty to one's family |
| communes | government owned farms where people live, work and share responsibility |
| zaibatsus | family owned corporations which were monopolies in Japan. |
| cottage industry | When Indian's were making their own goods at home like Gandhi's home spun clothes. |
| Satyagraha | "Soul Force"- Gandhi's civil disobedience. |
| Indian National Congress | Hindu's organization to gain independence from Britian. |
| diaspora | when the Jews were kicked out of their homeland and spread throughout Europe. |
| PLO | Terrorist group led by Yasir Arafat to get Israel back from the Jews. |
| Zionism | Jewish movement to get a homeland. |
| Camp David | where the peace treaty was signed by Yasir Arafat and Menachem Begin. |
| genocide | killing of an ethnic group |
| Cold War | when Russia and the U.S. had hostility between them- but there was no fighting. |
| Containment | U.S. policy to tried to stop the spread of communism. |
| tribalism | loyalty to a tribe over your country. |
| African National Congress | organization that tried to end apartheid. |
| Animism | religion that believes everthing has a soul. |
| Brain Drain | when African's were taken as slaves and the educated and strong were taken from an under-developed nation to a developed one. |
