| A | B |
|---|
| Latin America Mountain | Andes (natural barrier) |
| Aztecs | adapted environment |
| Incas | terrace farming |
| Conquistadors | European conquest |
| Encomienda System | forced labor |
| Columbian Exchange | cultural diffusion |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | nationalist leader |
| Simon Bolivar | nationalist leader |
| San Martin | nationalist leader |
| Hidalgo | nationalist leader |
| Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolution |
| Latin American Revolutions | influenced by American and French Revolutions |
| Deforestation | cutting down trees |
| NAFTA | trade agreements/rights |
| Cuba | Castro = Communism |
| Africa | Nile (unnavigable). Sahara Desert (natural barrier |
| Mali/Ghana | Mansa Musa + muslim + gold salt trade |
| Bantu Migration | cultural diffusion; recording travels |
| Animism | belief system- nature and spirits |
| Egypt | early river valley, Nile, papyrus |
| Ibn Battuta | cultural diffusion; recording travels |
| Scramble for Africa | imperialism |
| White Man's Burden | imperialism |
| Berlin Conference | African Cake (ethnic/tribal conflict) |
| Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame, Nkrumah | nationalist/independence leaders |
| Apartheid | South Africa, human rights violations |
| Rwanda Genocide | Hutu/Tutsi; human rights violations |
| Darfur | human rights violations |
| desertification | growing desert |
| AIDS | world health problem |
| Middle East | Tigris & Euphrates- Fertile Crescent (Early River Valley Civ) |
| Neolithic Revolution | Stop. Drop. Crop. |
| Code of Hammurabi | code = law = legal system |
| Judaism | Monotheistic, Torah=moral code |
| Christianity | Monotheistic, bible=moralcode |
| Islam | Daily Prayer, Ramandan, Alms, Faith in Allah & Mohammed is the prophet, Travel to Mecca |
| Quran (Koran) | moral code |
| Golden Age of Islam | mosques |
| Byzantine Empire | Justinian's Code = law = legal system |
| Crusades | Holy War |
| Ottoman Empire | bridged Europe & Asia |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | Absolute ruler |
| Ataturk | westernization & modernization of Turkey |
| Zionism | creation of Israeli homeland following treatment of Jews during WWII; nationalist movement |
| Arab-Israeli conflict | 6 Day, Yom Kippur, Independence, PLO (terrorists) |
| Khomeini | Iranian Revolution |
| Afghan Invasion | Taliban |
| Islamic Fundamentalism | Strict interpretation of Quran (Koran) |
| OPEC | trade agreement |
| Persian Gulf War | Iraq |
| Iran | nuclear proliferation |
| China Rivers | Huang He (Yellow) & Yangtze Rivers (Early River Valley Civilizations) |
| China Mountains | Himalayan (protected/isolated) |
| China Desert | Gobi (protected/isolated) |
| Oracle Bone | ancestor worship |
| Daoism | belief system- nature |
| Confucianism | 5 relationships |
| Legalism | code= strict rule = punishments |
| Buddhism | (BENN) Buddha, Enlightenment, Nirvana, Noble Truths |
| Mandate of Heaven | ruler chosen by gods |
| Han Dynasty | gun powder |
| Mongols | Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Great wall (protection), use of Silk Road |
| Marco Polo | cultural diffusion; recording travels |
| Pax Mongolica | pax = peace & prosperity = good times |
| Opium Wars | keep out foreigners, imperialism/sphere of influence |
| Boxer Wars | keep foreigners out |
| Mao Zedong | Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Communism |
| Deng Xiaoping | elements of Capitalism, 4 Modernizations |
| Tiananmen Square | human rights violations |
| Japan Geography | Mountainous; Archipelago |
| Japan Natural Disaster | tsunami |
| Shintoism | belief system- nature |
| Feudalism | social hierarchy |
| Meiji Restoration | modernization/westernization; Matthew Perry ends policy of isolation; Japan begins policy of imperialism for natural resources |
| Korea | cultural bridge to Japan |
| Ho Chi Minh | Nationalist/independence leader of Vietnam |
| Pol Pot | (kills a lot) Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, human rights violations |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | democratic reformer |
| India Rivers | Ganges & Indus- Early River Valley Civ (fertile soil) |
| India Natural Disaster | monsoon |
| Hinduism | (RICK)- Reincarnation, India, Caste System, Karma/Dharma |
| Caste System | social structure/hierarchy |
| Gupta | concept of "0" and decimal system |
| Akbar the Great | religious tolerance |
| Sepoy Mutiny | keep foreigners out |
| Gandhi | non-violence/civil disobedience |
| Partition | India divided following independence |
| Green Revolution | green = food (growing more food) |
| Byzantine Empire | Justinian's Code = law = legal system |
| Orthodox Church | influenced Russia |
| Peter the Great | absolute ruler |
| Catherine the Great | absolute ruler |
| Russian Revolution | Bolshevik (Communist), , Lenin = Peace, Land, Bread |
| Communism | govt control economic and political system |
| Pogroms | anti-semitism |
| Stalin | Totalitarian rule |
| Cold War | superpowers |
| Glasnost | GO- glass/opening of Soviet Union |
| Perestroika | PE- economic restructuring with some capitalism |
| USSR Global Issue | Chernobyl nuclear meltdown |
| Ancient Greece | first democracy |
| Greece geography | mountainous, separate city-states |
| Ancient Rome | first republic |
| Pax Romana | Pax = good times, peace and prosperity |
| Fall of Rome | Western Empire falls to invaders |
| Feudalism | no central government |
| Manorialism | economic system |
| Black Plague | bubonic plague |
| Renaissance | rebirth |
| Machiavelli | The Prince- political rule by power, rule by fear over love |
| Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther, 95 Theses |
| Gutenberg | printing press, cultural diffusion spread ideas |
| Absolutism | Divine right = power from God |
| Commercial Revolution | mercantilism = European mother country exploits raw materials produced by the colonies |
| Scientific Revolution | period of questioning |
| Limited Monarchy | Constitutional Monarchy |
| Age of Exploration | Europeans looking for new trade routes |
| Enlightenment | period of questioning authority and government |
| Locke | Montesquieu |
| French Revolution | Robespierre |
| Napoleon | Napoleonic Wars |
| Congress of Vienna | Balance of Power |
| Ireland | potato famine (blight) = migration |
| Industrial Revolution | England |
| Karl Marx | class struggle |
| Italian Unification | Garibaldi= nationalistic leader |
| German Unification | Otto von Bismarck = Blood and Iron = nationalistic leader |
| European Imperialism | Berlin Conference |
| WWI | MAINA- Militarism |
| Treaty of Versailles | Ends WWI |
| Fascist leaders | Hitler |
| Appeasement | Britain and France's policy of giving in to Hitler's Germany |
| Holocaust | genocide = human rights violation |
| Cold War | Superpowers |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | symbolic end of Cold War |
| European Union | EU = Trade Agreement |
