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London |
Capital of United Kingdom of Great Britain |
Paris |
Capital of France |
Berlin |
Capital of Germany |
Warsaw |
Capital of Poland |
Dublin |
Capital of Ireland |
Madrid |
Capital of Spain |
Rome |
Capital of Italy |
What country is located inside the city of Rome? |
Vatican City |
Athens |
Capital of Greece |
England |
United Kingdom of Great Britain |
Calvados |
France |
Mongolia |
Ulaanbaatar |
China |
Beijing |
North Korea |
Pyongyang |
South Korea |
Seoul |
Japan |
Tokyo |
Taiwan |
Taipei |
Philippines |
Manila |
Vietnam |
Hanoi |
Cambodia |
Phnom Penh |
Laos |
Vientiane |
Thailand |
Bangkok |
Bhutan |
Thimphu |
Burma/Myanmar |
Naypyjdaw |
Bangladesh |
Dhaka |
Nepal |
Kathmandu |
India |
New Delhi |
Sri Lanka |
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte |
Malaysia |
Kuala Lumpur |
Singapore |
Singapore |
Brunei |
Bandar |
Indonesia |
Jakarta |
Mauritania |
Nouakchott |
Senegal |
dakar |
Gambia |
banjul |
Guinea-bissau |
bissau |
Guinea |
conakry |
mali |
bamako |
mali |
powerful west african state that flourished in 14th century |
niger |
niamey |
chad |
n'djamena |
sudan |
khartoum |
eritrea |
asmara |
djibouti |
djiboutisomalia |
somalia |
mogadishu |
ethiopia |
addi ababa |
central african republic |
bangui |
cameroon |
yaounde |
nigeria |
abuja |
burka faso |
ouagadougou |
sierra leone |
free town |
liberia |
monrovia |
cote divoire |
yamoussoukro |
ghana |
accra |
togo |
lome |
benin |
porto-novo |
sao tome& principe |
sao tome |
equatorial guinea |
malabo |
gabon |
liberville |
rep. of the congo |
brazzaville |
democratic repulic of the congo |
kinshara |
uganda |
kampala |
kenya |
nairobi |
rawanda |
kigali |
burundi |
bujumbura |
tanzinia |
dodoma |
malaawi |
lilongwe |
mozanbique |
maputo |
madagascar |
antanarivo |
zambia |
luska |
8angola |
launda |
nambia |
windhoek |
botswana |
gaborone |
zimbabwe |
harare |
zimbabwes |
stone-built administrative centers for rulers |
south africa |
pretoria |
lesotho |
maseru |
swaziland |
mbabane |
south sudan |
juba |
the Mongol Peace |
Era in the 13th and 14th centuries when Mongol rule created order and stability in Central Asia and enabled goods and ideas to flow along the Silk Roads. |
silk roads |
key overland trade routes that connected eastern and western eurasia |
Il-khan |
branch of Mongol empire, center in present day Iran |
mandate of heaven |
source legitimacy for chinese emperors |
mamluks |
egyptian muslim slave army |
deforestation |
process which trees are eliminated from an ecosystem |
sufis |
members of islamic groups that cultivate mystical beliefs and practices |
empirical |
view that experience is only source of knowledge |
francisians |
religious order founded by francis of assisi dedicated to virtues of harmony, poverty, and charitable work among the poor |
sahel |
semiarid region of north Central Africa south of the Sahara Desert |
the black death |
term for lethal disease/s that struck large parts of Eurasia and north Africa |
el nino |
periodic reversal of normal flow of Pacific currents that alters weather patterns |
hohokam people |
native american culture that flourished from 3rd century to mid 15th century |
anti-semitism |
hostility or prejudice against jews or judaism |
revolutionary millenarianism |
doctrine tha in imminent, divinely contrived relaunch of history, god, would empower the poor |
shogun |
hereditary military ruler of japan |
zen |
school of mahayana buddhism |
sundiata |
legendary hero said to have found the kingdom of mali |
chimu |
civilization centered on pacific coast of peru |
hajj |
pilgrimage to mecca that all faithful muslims are required to complete at least once |
incas |
peoples of highland Peru |
aztecs |
people of central mexico |
ottoman empire |
islamic empire based in present day Turkey, capital Istanbul |
Renaissance |
humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning originated in italy |
humanism |
cultural and intellectual movement of the renaissance on the study of literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome |
chivalry |
qualities idealized by medieval European aristocracy and associated with knighthood, bravery, courtesy, honor |
world system |
system of interconnections among the world's population |
imperialism |
policy of extending a nation's authority and influence by conquest or by establishing economic |
trading post empires |
term for the networks of imperial forts and trading posts that europeans established in asia |
dutch east india company |
dutch company (1602) that enjoyed a government-granted monopoly on trade between Holland and Asia. |
capitalism |
economic system in which means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned |
low countries |
a region northwest europe comprising what is today Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg |
joint-stock company |
business whose capital is held in transferable shares of stock. (DEIC was first) |
english east india company |
british trading company found in 1600 that played a key role in colonization of india |
czars |
"Caesars", title of emperors who ruled russia |
safavids |
shiite dynasty that ruled Persia |
hispaniola |
modern haiti and dominican republic |
stranger effect |
tendency some peoples have to esteem and defer to strangers |
genocide |
systematic and planned extermination of an entire race, political, ethnical group |
country trades |
commerce involving local or regional exchanges of goods from one asian destination to another |
manila galleon |
spanish galleons that sailed each year between Philippines & mexico |
ecological exchange |
exchange of plants and animals between ecosystems |
military revolution |
change in warfare in 16&17th centuries that accompanied rise of firepower technology |
songhay |
ancient empire of west africa in present day country of mali |
minas gerais |
"general mines", region of brazil rich in mineral resources |
east india trade |
trade between west. Europe & New England and Asia |
christendom |
european states that christian is dominant or only religion |
council of trent |
series of meetings to direct response of the roman catholic church to protestantism |
inquisition |
tribunal of roman catholic church that was charged with suppressing heresy and immorality |
reformation |
protestant break from roman catholic church |
counter reformation |
catholic effort to combat the spread of protestantism |
jesuits |
order of regular clergy strongly committed to education, scholarship, and missionary work |
protestantism |
theological system of any of the churches of Western christendom , separted from roman catholic church during the reformation |
orthodox church |
dominant christian church in byzantine empire, balkans, russia |
dominican |
order of preaching friars established by saint dominic |
dalai lama |
ruler of tibet |
ongons |
tibetan images which spirits are thought to reside |
syncretic |
reconciliation of fusion of differing systems of belief |
confraternities |
catholic charitable brotherhoods |
millenarianism |
belief that the end of the world is about to occur |
copernican revolution |
development of heliocentric model of the solar system |
inductive method |
scientists turn individual observations and experiments into general law |
epistemology |
branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge |
chinese board of astronomy |
official department of chinese imperial court created in early 17th century |
state system |
organization of early modern europe into nation-states |
holy roman empire |
loose federation of states under elected emperor |
realpolitik |
political doctrine that says that the state is not subject to moral laws and has right to do whatever safeguards it |
law of nations |
all states must obey and govern relationships between them |
clans |
social group made up of number of families that claim descent from a common ancestor & follow a hereditary chieftain |
grand vizier |
chief minister of state in ottoman empire |
ming dynasty |
chinese dynasty noting for flourished foreign trade & achievements in art |
qing dynasty |
last chinese emperial dynasty |
samurai |
hereditary japanese feudal-military aristocracy |
daimyo |
japanese feudal lord who ruled a province |
tokugawa |
family of shoguns that ruled japan |
edo |
former name of Tokyo |
maroons |
runaway slaves in Americans who formed communities, states |
creole |
people of at least part european descent born in west indies, french lousiana, or spanish america |
mestizos |
descendants of european and native americans |
dahomey |
west african slave trading state |
kongo |
kingdom located in west central africa |
progress of the human mind |
one of the proofs of progress was the growth of population |
essay on the principle of population |
statistical basis of malthu's thinking from condorcet's work |
malthusian |
idea that population growth would always outpace growth in food supply |
urbanization |
process which urban areas develop and expand |
industrialization |
process which industrial economy is developed |
scientific revolution |
sweeping change in investigation of nature and view of universe |
industrial revolution |
complex set of economic, demographic, and technological events began in western europe |
french revolution |
political, intellectual, and social upheal began in france |
physiocrats |
french political economists who argued agriculture was foundation of any country's wealth and recommended agricultural improvements |
monocultures |
cultivation of single dominant food crop |
imam |
muslim religious teacher |
dutch east indies |
dutch colonies in asia |
wahhabism |
muslim sect found by abdul wahhab |
marathas |
petty hindu princes |
saint-dominigue |
french colony in hispaniola (slave labor, coffee) |
boers |
dutch settlers and descendants in southern africa |
mahdi |
muslim messiah |
fulani |
traditional herdsmen of sahel |