| A | B |
| Africa | Manking originated there; Leakey's |
| Totalitarian government | Have total power, censorship, terror |
| Subsistence farming | Grow enough to meet your own needs |
| Terracing | Cutting into mts. to farm |
| Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics | Sumerian and Egyptian forms of writing |
| The Koran | Islamic holy book |
| Gupta Empire | Concept of zero, decimal system |
| Catholic Church | Provided untiy, stability during Middle Ages |
| Commercial Revolution | Involved the rise of capitalism and banking |
| Mali | Powerful African trading kingdoms |
| Machiavelli | Wrote The Prince, better for a ruler to be feared than loved |
| Protestant Reformation | Caused by corruption of the Catholic Church |
| Ming Dynasty | China, limited contact w/ foreigners |
| Absolute Monarch | Has total control, practices censorship, Akbar the Great, Louis XIV |
| Columbian exchange | Movement of goods from the New World to the Old World after Columbus's discovery |
| Latin American Revolutions | Were influenced by the American and French Revolutions |
| John Locke | Enlightenment thinker who proposed natural rights (life, liberty and property) |
| Communist Manifesto | Written by Karl Marx, criticized capitalist system during the Industrial Revolution |