Confucianism

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Confucianism

• Belief system of the Chinese philosopher
  Confucius emphasizes traditional values such as
  obedience. respect for elders, education,
  leaders, and the importance of the family!

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cultural diffusion

• Spread of ideas, customs, technology from one
  group or region to another culture.

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Cultural Revolution

• Program by Mao Zedong in China (1960s) against
  those who opposed the communist government. Mao
  used the Red Guards (youths) to purge China of
  anyone who disagreed with his ideas or policies.

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Commercial Revolution

• Changes in the economies of Europe in the Middle
  Ages led to a growth of towns, banks, trade
  among nations.

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consumer goods

• Tangible economic products used to satisfy the
  wants needs of a society.

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deforestation

• Destruction of a forest.

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cuneiform

• Ancient Sumerian form of writing. Characters were
  formed by pressing a stick into wet clay.

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czar

• Title of the Russian emperor also spelled tsar.

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culture

• Peoples way of life language, customs,
  religion, traditions, and institutions.

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de-colonization

• Process by which European colonies in Asia
  Africa became independent countries after World
  War II ended.

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containment

• Policy of the U.S. toward the Soviet Union during
  the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism
  in the world.

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communism

• Form of socialism proposed by Karl Marx
  Friedrich Engels a classless society
  supports a common ownership equal distribution
  of the products of society no class struggle
  the government will wither away.

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constitutional monarchy

• Government in which the king or queens power is
  limited or defined by the legislature or
  parliament body.

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coup detat

• (French term) swift overthrow of the government
  by force or by a small group of people.

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conquistadors

• Spanish explorers who conquered land in the
  Americas for Spain during the 1500s 1600s.

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command economy

• Economic system where the central authority makes
  all the production decisions on what how to
  produce goods. ie communist states

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crusades

• Religious wars between Christian Europe the
  Muslims for control of the Holy Lands, lasting
  from 1096 A.D. until 1246 A.D.

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collectivization

• System under communism in which many small farms
  were combined into large farms owned operated
  by the govt. worked by the peasants started by
  Stalin in the late 1920s.

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Cold War

• Period of tension hostility between the U.S.
  Soviet Union after 1945 because of their
  different political economic systems worldwide
  struggle without actual fighting between the two
  powers ended in 1991 with the collapse of the
  U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union).

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codified law

• Organized and written set of rules or laws.