| A | B |
|---|
| genecide | the systematic extermination or destruction of an entire people or national group |
| glasnost | ploicy of openness donestically and towards the West initated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Green Revolution | scientific efforts to increase the amount of food produced on the same amount of land |
| gross national product | total value of goods and services produced by a nation in a year; abbreviated by GNP |
| guerrilla warfare | Spanish word for war; fighting comprised of hit-and-run attacks |
| guilds | association of merchants or artisans 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 |
| Helanistic Civilization | culture blending eastern and western influences that emerged in Greece and other lands conquered by Alexander the Great |
| Holocaust | the systematic murder of over 6 million Jews by Nazis before and during WWII |
| humanism | the intellectual and lieracy movement during the Renaissance characterized by an emphasis on human interest and a study of Gree-Roman classics |
| illiteracy | inability to read or write |
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, social, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| indulgence | reduction of the punishment a sinner would suffer in purgatory; ofetn granted by medieval and Renaissance popes |
| industrialization | the process of establishing large-scale industries - moving away from cottage industry |
| inflation | economic cycle in which an increase in the money supply results in an increase in prices |
| interdependence | countries in the world being dependent upon each other for various resources and 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 |
| karma | in Hinduism, all the actions in a person's life that afect his or her fate in the next life |
