World Cultures: Final Vocabulary
Africa: Chapters 4 – 6
lineage consensus subsistence farmer polygamy
age-grade bride wealth abolition Triangle Trade
Middle Passage Animism African Diaspora direct rule
indirect rule Scramble for Africa David Livingstone Leopold II
Cecil Rhodes Trans-Saharan Trade Berlin Conference
Pan-Africanism Negritude Movement Atlantic Charter Mau Mau
autocratic democratization Parliamentary system socialism
Julius Nyerere Joseph Mobutu Kwame Nkrumah Jomo Kenyatta
one-party rule military rule Patrice Lumumba Organization of African Unity
Afrikaner Afrikaans pass laws Apartheid
Nelson Mandela F.W. de Klerk homeland/bantustans Stephen Biko
Desmond Tutu Albert Luthuli Sharpeville Massacre Boer War
Black Consciousness Movement Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Spear of the Nation African National Congress Boer Zulu
economic sanction Shaka divestment
South Asia: Chapters 7 – 9
subcontinent Northern Mountains Deccan Plateau Indo-Gangetic Plain
monsoon Hindi Dialect Indus Valley Civilization Dravidians Vedas Sanskrit Indo-Aryan (Aryans)
varna caste
dharma karma samsara atman
moksha Brahman Upanishad Ramayana
Mahabharata Bhagavad-Gita Sikhism Varanasi
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha enlightenment meditation
Nirvana Four Nobel Truths Noble Eight Fold Path Three Baskets of Wisdom,
Theravada Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism Jainism Dalai Lama
Sikhism
Asoka Sultan Mughal Empire Babur
Akbar Shah Jahan caste jati
dowry Robert Clive Sepoy shakti
arranged marriage British Raj British East Indian Company Sepoy Rebellion (cause/effect)
Indian National Congress Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Amritsar Massacre Satyagraha civil disobedience Salt March
Parliamentary democracy Jawaharlal Nehru Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
INC socialism Green Revolution Prime Minister
secular government compensatory discrimination harijan Mahatma
Mohandas Gandhi Nathuram Godse
China: Chapters 15
Confucius Lao Zi Mandate of Heaven Filial piety
Shi Huangdi Silk Road Civil Service Exam Kowtow
Opium War extraterritoriality Sphere of Influence Open Door Policy
Taiping Rebellion Boxer Rebellion Revolution of 1911 Three Principles of the People
Sun Yatsen Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong Guomindang
Communists Long March Treating of Nanjing unequal treaties
Gentry peasant Legalism Daoism
Open Ended Questions:
A. Imperialism and modernization have brought major changes to many aspects of Non-Western culture. Analyze the impact imperialism and modernization on THREE of the following areas: (a) traditional patterns of life, (b) economic development, (c) education, (d) the family, and (e) women. Use specific examples from our units of study.