| A | B |
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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 | social group based on birth; in India, caste determined the jobs people could hold. |
| 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 | powerful 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 |
