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Claudius
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Julio-Claudian
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circumnavigate
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travel around
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encumbrance
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burden or hindrance
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HUAC
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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Tribunes
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elected representatives; protect plebian's political rights
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Hammurabi's Code
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King of Babylonia.
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James Oglethorpe
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Philanthropic soldier-statesmen who founded the Georgia colony
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Totalitarianism
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A dictatorship that exercises unprecedented control over the masses and seeks to mobilize them for action.
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Shah Jahan
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1627-1657o Son of Jahangiro Expands Mughal empire to its absolute territoryo Brutalized empireo Most of his subjects lived in absolute povertyo Severely raised taxeso Constructed the Taj Mahalo Made Delhi the permanent capital for the Mughal Empireo Built the Peacock throne, which is later taken away to Persiao Banned building of Hindu templeso Refused to take any Hindu wiveso Laid siege to a town to persecute Portuguese Christians Converted them to Islamo Two sons Dara and Aurangzeb fought for inheritance
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Aryan People
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War-loving people; often fought themselves; enter India around the same time Harappa is abandoned; domesticated horses, cattle, sheep, & dogs; paleolithic; probably killed off Harappan men & mated with their women; cultures combined.
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Article 3
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judicial branch supreme court interprets constitution
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Marco Polo
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Venetian traveler, worked as ambassador for Kublai Khan in China. He was one of the first Europeans in China. He returned to Venice in late 1200's and was imprisoned. Wrote a book in prison about what it was like to be visit China.
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Charlemagne
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Frankish King that unified Europe under the Carolingian Empire
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Sephardic Jews
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Spain and Portugal (Orthodox Jews)minority in a place thats mostly Catholic
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Lakshmana
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Rama's brother, steadfast and always at his brother's side, willing to die for him (and does eventually), serves him and Sita faithfully over the course of the exile but sort of resents Sita's silliness
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Banned the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol
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Prohibition
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brahman
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the impersonal supreme being, the primal source and ultimate goal of all beings, with which Atman, when enlightened, knows itself to be identical.
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t/t (both) political
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-political geniuses
-united diverse people
-led revolutions
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Hausa
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located on niger river, organized into city states, never untied, were farmers, traded a lot of cotton, crops, cold, salt.
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Albert Fall
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Secretary of Interior under Harding responsible for Teapot Dome scandal
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Abu-Bakr
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first caliph, ordered the writing of the Quran
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Transylvania Company
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Beginning in 1775, A short-lived colony that formed in the now Kentucky area under the leadership of Richard Henderson. It petitioned to become the fourteenth state but was unsuccessful because of preexisting claims to the land.
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patroons
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wealthy proprietors in the colonies of the Netherlands
given huge estates if they would encourage people to come to their new land from Holland
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EMPIRE
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A LARGE TERRITORY WHERE SEVERAL GROUPS OF PPL R RULED BY A SINGLE GOVERNMENT OR RULER
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yellow press
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news papers attempt to spread propaganda about the war. ex. william hurst and ______ nobel
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socialists
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believed countries should be split by class not nationality so nations shouldn't be fighting
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Mass Transit:
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The creation of subways changed everything and made travel easier and everything feel more connected.
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John Adams
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Secretary of State for James Monroe
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Canaan
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Ancient home of the Hebrews, later called the Jews
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valley
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a low area between hills and mountains often where a river flows
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Milan Decree
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Napoleon's response to the Orders in Council. Says that the French navy will confiscate any ships, which have a British License.
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Marshall Plan
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a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
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Camarilla
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a group of secret and often scheming advisors
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Wilson-Gorman Tariff
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became a law without the presidents signature
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Stagecoach
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A horse-drawn coach that was used for transporting people or mail
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migration
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The movement of people from one place to another.
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Experimental Embryology
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a branch of embryology developed by Ross Granville Harrison used in genetic and embryo manipulations – tissue grafts
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Dred Scott VS. Sanford
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Court case that spread slavery
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Tony Blair
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the new prime minister who moved away from Labour’s traditional socialism and favored low taxes, tightly controlled social spending, and closer ties to Europe.
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Sun Belt
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(1980 election, sort of middle class to traditional values)
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explored for english & dutch, found and named a river in Ny
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henry hudson
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Mid-level emperor whose widow ruled in his name after death
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Yuan Ti
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Plaintiff
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a person who files suit in a civil case
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creole language
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a pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocab and has become the native language of a group of people
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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invented telegraph morse code can send messages to distent places
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American Indian Movement
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an Indian activist organization in the United States. AIM burst onto the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In the decades since AIM's founding, the group has led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States.
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Spent his short life preaching to the Indians and died at 29 years old
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David Brainerd
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the southern manifesto encouraged...
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white southerners to defy court rulings
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Caste
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Social class a person is born into and cannot change
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Stock Market Crash
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DID NOT cause GD, stocks are overinflated, decline in amount of investors, October 29, 1929, bought stocks on margin, margin call, people take their money back – bank runs, banks collapse because they invested in stock market with people’s money
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Baron Von Steuben
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Prussian army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. He trained and drilled General Washington's army at Valley Forge
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american plan
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(in hotels) a system of paying a single fixed rate that covers room and all meals.
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Alexander the Great
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son of Philip II who inherited his empire and also conquered Persia, Egypt, and a bit of India
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Reasons for the Great Depression
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Uneven distribution of wealth; bull market; stock market crash; overproduction of goods
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Zachary Taylor
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War hero at the battle over the border of Texas
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may flower compact
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document had 41 saints sign it saying it established civil government loyoal to the king in plymouth
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black codes
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any code of law that defined and esp. limited therights of former slaves after the Civil War.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Congress passed this law which banned literacy tests; African-American voter registration tripled
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Adam Smith/ John Maynard Keynes
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Keynes was a British economist that helped overcome the depression through deficit spending
Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations and developed the idea of the "invisible hand"
he advocated Laissez Faire
significance- two prominent economists
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why were the balkans considered a powder keg
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history of ethinic clashings and tensions
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why was george washington originally opposed to african americans enlisting in the continental army?
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He was afraid blacks would rebel against the whites (changes policy in December, allows blacks to enlist in states with small black populations)
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Outline the course of the German Unification
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Otto Von Bismarck, the Prussian prime minister, built an army and won wars against Denmark and Austria. The victories gave Prussia new territory. He then waged war against France, and the southern German states joined in with them, so that after their quick victory, all of the German states, except Austria, had become united as Germany.
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what does N. A. F. T. A. stand forwhat is it
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north american free trade agreementgoods traded between countries are untaxedamericans afraid of jobs going south
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Dar al-Islam = “Abode of Islam”
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The Islamic world (world of submission to God's will) - where Muslims can practice their religion freely. As opposed to Dar-al-harb (house of war - the west).
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