| A | B |
|---|
| 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 |
| cash crop | crop that can be sold on the world market for money |
| caste system | social groups based on occupations Indians are born in to. |
| 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 |
| daimyo | land owners who were warrior knights directly below the shogun, in Japan during the feudal period |
| desertification | the spread of desert into semi-arid regions nearby |
| extraterritoriality | the right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nations |
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| 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 |
| samurai | warrior knights of Japan during the feudal period |
| Long March | 6,000 mile trek taken by Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong. |
| Guomintang | Sun Yatsen's Chinese Nationalist party. |
| spheres of influence | when China was carved in to territories which let the European countries cotrol parts of China for trading. |
| filial piety | Confucius' idea of showing loyalty to one's family |
| communes | government owned farms where people live, work and share responsibility |
| zaibatsus | family owned corporations which were monopolies in Japan. |
| cottage industry | When Indian's were making their own goods at home like Gandhi's home spun clothes. |
| Satyagraha | "Soul Force"- Gandhi's civil disobedience. |
| Indian National Congress | Hindu's organization to gain independence from Britian. |
| diaspora | when the Jews were kicked out of their homeland and spread throughout Europe. |
| Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO | Terrorist group led by Yasir Arafat to get Israel back from the Jews. |
| Zionism | Jewish movement to get a homeland. |
| Camp David | where the peace treaty was signed by Yasir Arafat and Menachem Begin. |
| genocide | killing of an ethnic group |
| Cold War | when Russia and the U.S. had hostility between them- but there was no fighting. |
| Containment | U.S. policy to tried to stop the spread of communism. |
| tribalism | loyalty to a tribe over your country. |
| African National Congress | organization that tried to end apartheid. |
| Animism | religion that believes everthing has a soul. |
| Brain Drain | when African's were taken as slaves and the educated and strong were taken from an under-developed nation to a developed one. |
