Foundations Key Terms

Paleolithic Age

Neolithic Revolution

animism

polytheism

courage culture

civilization

cuneiform

Hammurabi

theocracy

Mandate of Heaven

feudalism

patriarchal

Aryans

karma

dharma

nirvana

moksha

Four Noble Truths

Eightfold Path

caste system

Warring States Period

filial piety

dao

Qin Shi Huangdi

Legalism

Han Wu Ti

bureaucracy

mean people

Ashoka

jati

city-state

Hellenism

Julius Caesar

Augustus Caesar

Pax Romana

Paul of Tarsus

Huns

Key Terms for 600-1450

Five Pillars

Sharia

Sunni

Shi’a

caliph

dhimmi

mawali

wazir

Sufis

al-Khwarizmi

dhows

Dar al-Islam

Bantu migrations

stateless society

Mansa Musa

Swahili

Kilwa

Constantinople

Justinian

iconoclasm

Vladimir I

boyars

Vikings

fiefs

vassals

papacy

Magna Carta

guilds

scholasticism

Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

Hundred Years War

Toltecs

calpulli

chinampas

cannibal kingdom

Pachacuti

split inheritance

mita

ayllu

Empress Wu

tribute system

jinshi

footbinding

Grand Canal

flying money

junks

Sinification (sinicization)

bushi

samurai

shogun (Shogunate)

daimyo

Trung Sisters

Genghis Khan

Kubilai Khan

Pax Mongolica

Key Terms for 1450 - 1750

humanism

Johannes Gutenberg

Martin Luther

Henry VIII

Calvinism

Jesuits

Louis XIV

proletariat

bourgeoisie

mercantilism

capitalism

Isaac Newton

Nicholas Copernicus

Galileo Galilei

John Harvey

deism

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

Voltaire

Adam Smith

laissez-faire capitalism

core nation

dependent zone

Manila

Macao/Canton

salutary neglect

boyars

Cossacks

Hernando Cortez

Francisco Pizarro

viceroys

letrados

Treaty of Tordesillas

peninsulares

creoles

mestizos

janissaries

vizier

Akbar the Great

British East India Company

Christopher Columbus

Vasco da Gama

Zheng He

Mateo Ricci

Oda Nobunaga

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Key Terms for 1750-1914

Napoleon (French and global impact)

Congress of Vienna

liberal

conservative

radical

socialism

Marxism

Otto von Bismarck

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Emmeline Pankhurst

Robert Clive

Social Darwinism

“White Man’s Burden”

Berlin Conference 1884-1885

dependency theory

modernization theory

White Dominion

tropical dependency

contested settler colony

Cecil Rhodes

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Simon Bolivar

Miguel de Hidalgo

caudillos

Monroe Doctrine

Benito Juarez

Porfirio Diaz

Tanzimat Reforms

Ottoman Society for Union and Progress

Muhammad Ali

Suez Canal

Opium War

Taiping Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion

Sun Yatsen

Russo-Japanese War

Sino-Japanese War

Matthew Perry

zaibatsu

Key Terms for 1914 - Present

Vladimir Lenin

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Balfour Declaration

Mandate System

Influenza Epidemic 1918-1919

John Meynard Keynes

New Deal

Nuremburg Laws of 1935

satyagraha

Salt March

May Fourth Movement

Long March

appeasement

blitzkrieg

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

NATO

European Community

de-Stalinization

Ho Chi Minh

Mikhail Gorbachev

perestroika

glastnost

Brown v. Board of Education

Bandung Conference

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Anwar Sadat

Suez Crisis of 1956

Kwame Nkrumah

Nelson Mandela

Francisco Madero

Emiliano Zapata

Alvaro Obregon

Fidel Castro

Juan Peron

apartheid

African National Congress

Palestinian Liberation Organization

Great Leap Forward

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Deng Xiaoping

Little Tigers

OPEC

WTO

NAFTA