| A | B |
|---|
| genocide | systematic extermination or destructinof an entire people or national group |
| glasnost | policy of openness domestically (home) & toward West started by Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Green Revolution | scientific efforts to increase amount of food production on the same amount of land |
| gross national product (GNP) | total value of goods & services produced by a ntiaon in a year |
| guerrilla warfare | Spanish word for little war, fighting comprised of hit & run attacks |
| guild | association of merchants or atrisans that governed a town or craft in the Middle Ages |
| haiku | short Japanese poem with 17 syllables that creates a mood or describes a scene |
| hejira | Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622 |
| Helenistic civilization | culture blending eastern & western influences that emerged in Greece & other lands conquered by Alexander the Great |
| Holocaust | the systematic murder of over 6 million Jews by the Nazis before & during WWII |
| humanism | the intellectual & literary movement during the Renaissance characterized by an emphasis on human interests & a study of the Greek-roman classics |
| illiteracy | inability to read & write |
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic or cultural life of another country or region |
| indulgence | reduction of the punishment a sinner would suffer in purgatory; often granted by midieval & Renaissance popes |
| industrialization | the process of establishing large scale industries |
| inflation | economic cyclein which an increase in the money supply results in a increase in prices |
| interdependence | countries in the world being dependent upon each other for various resources & products for their mutual benefit |
| isolationism | a policy of having little to do with foreign nations |
| kami | spirits that early Japanese believed controlled the forces of nature |
| kabbutz | Israeli settlement in which people live in a community housing project, work together, and share profits |
