KEY WORDS AND IDEAS TO REMEMBER FOR THE REGENTS EXAM
Memorize and know what these terms are, along with the list of people and you will pass!
I MEAN MEMORIZE THEM!!!
ArchipelagoRural to Urban- weakens traditions, values
ApartheidAnimism
MercantilismShintoism
NationalismBuddhism
HinduismIslam
Confucious –respect for authority, valuesDaoism
Meiji Shogunate – modernizationSpheres of influence - China
Tokugawa Shogunate - isolationForeign debt
Lack capital investment- India, Africa L.A.Gupta Empire – India’s Golden Age
Geographic features cause cultural diversityMughal Empire- spread Islam throughout India
Mauryan Empire- spread Hinduism in IndiaImperialism- the 3 G’s
Silk Road- trade from China to EuropeCultural diffusion
Han Dynasty- Civil ServiceChin Dynasty- Great Wall of China
Greece & Rome- law, gov’t, art & architectureTang & Song Dynasty – China’s Golden Age
Renaissance- rebirth of culture - humanismHellenistic
Reformation- questioned authority of churchScientific Revolution- age of reason
Enlightenment- ideals of gov’t changedFrench Revolution
Russian Revolution - czar to communismJapan lacks natural resources - mountainous
L.A.- democracies in the 1980’s & 1990’sTerrace farming – Japan
InterdependentChina modernizes, more economic flexibility- 1990’s
ArcheologyArtifacts
CapitalismCommunism
Laissez FaireWorld War II
World War IHolocaust
Atomic BombUnequal treaties after Opium War
Partition of India - Muslim distrust of HindusCivil disobedience
Human rights violationsMongol Dynasty- largest empire for China
Hammurabi’s Codecivilizations existed before Europeans arrived
Europeans had better weapons for conquestethnic rivalries
Tribalismtotalitarian- Joseph Stalin, Hitler
Fascist- Hitler, MussoliniNeolithic Revolution – food surplus; villages develop
Independence movements after WWIIDomino effect- Southeast Asia
Vietnam- all communistPeasants supported Mao Zedong
Islamic FundamentalismCamp David Accords
TerrorismAppeasement
NonalignmentLeague of Nations
United NationsTreaty of Versailles
EthnocentrismEarly River Civilizations
Feudal & Caste Systems- rigid class systemsEncomienda System- forced labor
DictatorsMilitarism
ConquistadorsLimited Monarchy-England, Magna Carta
Byzantine Empire influenced Russian cultureFr & US Revolutions influence L.A. independence
Ghana, Mali – known for trade & agricultureSlavery – kingdoms & families broken up
PLOCongress of Vienna
Boxer Rebellion – China, kick foreigners out Industrial Revolution
PolytheismMonotheism