| A | B |
|---|
| economic sanctions | cutting off trade with another country to ptessure it to change its policies |
| encomienda | right to demand taxes or labor from native peoples in the Spanish colonies |
| extraterritoriality | principal allowing westerners accused of a crime in China to be tried in special western-run courts instead of Chinese courts |
| filial piety | according to COnfucius, the duty and respect that children owe their parents |
| "four Asian tigers" | four countries in ASia - Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea-accomplished rapid industrilization |
| hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims who are able are expected to make one a lifetime |
| hejira | migration of Huhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622 |
| imperialism | control by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| land reform | government program in which ownership of farmland is redistributed |
| mercanitilism | theory that a country's economic strength depended on increasing its gold supply by exporting more than importing |
| mestizo | people of mixed European and Native American ancestry |
| militarism | glorification of the military and a readiness for war |
| monothesim | worship of one god |
| monsoon | seasonal wind that dominates the climate of South Asia |
| mosque | Muslim house of worship |
