Ap World History: Terms for Chapters 23 & 24

AP WORLD HISTORY: TERMS FOR CHAPTERS 23 & 24

DIRECTIONS: For each term listed below, provide a well-developed definition that explains the significance of that term. Your definition should be written in a complete sentence(s). All terms and their definitions must be numbered and hand-written.

ex. Cuneiform: This is the first known writing system and was developed c3500 BCE by the Sumerian

civilization located in Mesopotamia’s Fertile Crescent.

**Please note**: The terms below are not necessarily listed in the order that they are found in the text. Many terms are NOT highlighted or italicized as you read them in the textbook. Use your textbook’s glossary or index to locate the terms. You may also use outside resources to define the term, but the definition provided must be relevant to our historical studies. Do NOT trust publically edited websites such as Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers to retrieve definitions.

1.  Political Revolution

2.  American Revolution

3.  American Declaration of Independence

4.  representative democracy/republic

5.  French Revolution

6.  Old Regime (as it relates to pre-Revolutionary France)

7.  Estates General

8.  Declaration of the Rights of Man

9.  Reign of Terror (as it relates to the French Revolution)

10.  nationalism

11.  Napoleon Bonaparte

12.  coup d’etat

13.  Napoleonic Code

14.  liberalism

15.  conservatism

16.  radicalism

17.  Congress of Vienna

18.  Greek Revolution

19.  Enclosure Movement

20.  Industrial Revolution

21.  factory system

22.  Luddites

23.  socialism

24.  Karl Marx

25.  communism

26.  bourgeoisie (as it relates to Marxism/communism)

27.  proletariat (as it relates to Marxism/communism)

28.  Louis Pasteur

29.  Romanticism

30.  Social Darwinism

31.  White supremacy

32.  “The White Man’s Burden”

33.  sepoys

34.  Sepoy Mutiny

35.  British Raj

36.  core/dependency theory

37.  “Scramble for Africa”

38.  Berlin Conference (as it relates to European imperialism)

39.  nawabs

40.  manifest destiny

41.  Zulus

42.  Isandhlwana

43.  Afrikaners

44.  Boer War

45.  settlement colonies

46.  white dominions

47.  contested settler colonies

48.  sphere of influence