AP world history words to know

Mercantilism

•  economic theory advocating a strong state and strict control over trade

Daoism

• Chinese philosophy advocate humility and religious piety (act of being religious)

Legalism

• Excessive adherence to law or formula-dependence on moral law rather than on personal religious faith.

Marxism

• Created by Karl Marx, social and economic theory, world is unfair to workers who make up most of the population.

Socialism

• Theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community

Confucianism

• Ancient Chinese belief system- focuses on importance of personal ethics and morality.

Capitalism

• country trade and industry is controlled by private owners for profit.

Nationalism

• -Identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion of interests of other nations- want independence from others

Song Dynasty

Golden age of imperial China

Gunpowder and paper money first developed here

Tang dynasty in China