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| Mughal emperor from 1556-1605, during its Golden Age |
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| Maurya Dynasty, 269-262 B.C., during its Golden Age |
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| Administrator in the British East India Company, helped defeat the French and the British took control of India |
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| Administrator in the British East India Company, helped defeat the French and the British took control of India |
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| – Led the Indian independence movement |
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| First Indian Prime Minister |
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| – First Pakistan governor general |
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| – Daughter of Nehru, became Prime Minister of India |
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| Son of Indira, Prime Minister of India, assassinated |
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| minority in Sri Lanka, want to gain more rights, calling for separate nation, guerilla warfare |
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| – early Indian civilization around Indus River Valley |
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| – Early invaders of India from Central Asia, who developed Hinduism |
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| – Archeologist who found remains of early humans in Africa |
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| Mali ruler, converted to Islam, made a trip to Mecca, brought back Muslim culture to Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Nobel Peace Prize winner, anti-apartheid |
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| one time leader of the ANC, first black president of South Africa |
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| African Nationalist, first President of Kenya |
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| African Nationalist, led the Gold Coast to independence, later was the first Prime Minister of Ghana |
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| – first Tanzanian President, tried socialism in his country |
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| South African President that started the end of Apartheid |
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| military strongman that gained control in Congo and changed its name to Zaire |
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| Belgian King who ruled Congo harshly |
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| British imperialist in Africa |
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| Capitalism, private ownership, competition driven |
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| – Government run industry |
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| Government owns some of the major industries, but some industries are still independently run |
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| Free market economy, government plays minimal role in controlling industry |
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| – Government controls the industry and business making decisions, control of resources |
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| government control of industry, in more of a democratic system than Communism |
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| Mercantilism/Colonialism – |
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| the colony exists for the benefit of the mother country |
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| – pride in one’s nation, often related to independence movements |
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| Ethnocentrism – Belief that ones culture is better than others |
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| – Belief that ones culture is better than others |
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| – discrimination based on someone’s race |
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| “Africa for Africans” movement for a united Africa |
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| Ones way of life; economically, religiously, morally, socially |
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| spread of ideas from one culture to the next |
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| – countries relying on one another |
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| – differences or varieties between cultures |
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| – Hindu social system based on birth |
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| the belief that the good and bad deeds that one does in this life affects their standing in the next life |
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| the Hindu belief in the duties of each caste |
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| the Hindu belief in the freeing of the Soul from the body |
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| Gandhi’s method of non-violent civil disobedience |
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| The Buddhist equivalent to heaven, “Wanting Nothing” |
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| peoples standing in the hierarchy of their culture |
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| The ability for a person to move up or down in social class |
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| – Rigid separation of people by race, South Africa |
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| – The money a man pays his bride’s family at his wedding to her |
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| The money a bride’s family gives to her husbands family at their wedding to ensure her a good life |
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| The average amount of money a person makes in a country in a year |
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| the amount of goods and services produced by a country in a year |
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| – the practice of having more than one spouse |
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| – refusal to buy certain goods or services |
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| refusal to obey an unjust law |
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| – a country where religious leaders run the government |
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| to judge someone based on physical characteristics, or their belonging to a certain group |
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| – a family that includes several generations living in one home |
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| only immediate family living in one home, - mother, father, and children |
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| early form of society, wherein the people are nomadic |
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| Developing / Third World Nations – |
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| countries that are trying to become a part of the industrialized world |
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– only the strong survive to reproduce-
"survival of the fittest" |
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| producing only enough to survive |
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| a crop raised for the sole purpose of sale |
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| – the development of crops that have a higher yield and larger harvest due to genetic altercation and technology |
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| Agricultural Revolution – |
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| the point at which people began to settle in one place to raise crops, and began to domesticate animals |
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| highly organized group of people with their own language and ways of living |
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| Paleolithic vs. Neolithic – |
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| the growth of cities, involves people moving from the country or villages to the city |
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Refusal to team up with either superpower in the cold war
Generally new countries are "non-aligned" as to not upset any other countries |
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| the highest Caste in Hinduism |
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| the lowest group in the Caste system |
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| a prolonged period of hunger commonly due to drought |
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| a type of fighting where a smaller group uses covert tactics such as hit and run to chip away at the power of the larger force |
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| a military overthrow of a government |
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| freedom from an external power |
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| a government where one person has total control |
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| a system wherein heritage is traced through the males’ side of the family |
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| Trans-Saharan trade by the Berbers WAY OF LIFE |
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| The high point of a civilization, good trade, education and little warfare |
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pride in ones tribe – usually over ones nation
** think AFRICA and how British/Europe tookover w/pitting them against each other, bribing w/ guns/alcohol $... |
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| the study of remains left by early people |
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| the study of early civilizations |
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| study of people, their environments and their resources |
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| physical features of a place or region |
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– the spread of the desert
* think SAHARAN DESERT how it "GROWS" and expands, less grass every year... |
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seasonal storms
rainy seasons, connection 2 India RAIN SHADOWS |
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| a violent storm involving high speed winds and water |
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| average weather of a place over a long period of time |
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| an area next to mountains that is blocked from rainfall by the mountains; a desert region |
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| the removal of nutrients from soil from an abundance of water |
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an eastern religion based on caste and reincarnation
-arranged marriages, non-violence, vegetarianism, karma/darma, |
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| an offshoot of Hinduism that is monotheistic and has no casts |
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| a religion that combines some of the beliefs of Hinduism and Islam |
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| A middle-eastern religion based on teaching of the prophet Muhammad |
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| belief that spirits live in the natural world |
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| Great Zimbabwe / Ghana / Mali / Songhai – |
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| early African civilizations |
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| Maurya / Gupta / Mongols – |
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| early Indian civilizations |
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English control of various places around the world
"The sun never sets on the British empire" |
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| 1857 Indian soldiers in the British army turned revolted against the British in India because they heard that their guns and ammunition involved the use of animal products, and the Hindus thought they may be shipped overseas |
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| – 4/13/1919 General Dyer had his troops open fire on a group of Indians who were meeting peacefully |
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| Gandhi’s call for Indians to make their own cloth which opposed British policy |
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| Gandhi led a march over 240 miles to protest the British monopoly on Salt in India |
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| movement to get the British out of India, involved refusal to support Britain in the war unless India was given its independence |
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| – split up of India into India (Hindu) and Pakistan (Muslim) once it was independent from Britain |
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