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 18841885
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