AP world vocab

encomienda system

A Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples.

Columbian exchange

Exchange of goods between the old and new world

Protestant Reformation

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.

mercantilism

an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

devshirme system

The practice by which the Ottoman Empire converted Christian boys to Islam and trained to be Janissary soldiers.

civil service examination

a test given in China to qualify candidates for positions in the buracreacy

Repartimiento system

Spanish labor system under which Indians were legally free and able to earn wages but were also required to perform a fixed amount of labor yearly. Replaced the encomienda system.

Monroe Doctrine

an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers

spinning jenny

A machine that could spin several threads at once

Great Mutiny

This was the last armed opposition to British rule in India in 1857. Groups of trained and armed Indian military members revolted, but were eventually crushed by other native troops loyal to the British.

Taiping Rebellion

(1850-1864) A revolt by the people of China against the ruling Manchu Dynasty because of their failure to deal effectively with the opium problem and the interference of foreigners.

Boxer rebellion

A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country.

Meiji Restoration

the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the 1800's

Triple Entente

Britain, France, Russia

perestroika

A policy of the soviet government restructuring the social and economic status quo towards a market based economy and society

glasnost

a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems

Detente

A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

Indian National Congress

Indian nationalist group formed to work for rights and power for Indians under British rule.

great migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.

Songhai Empire

A powerful West African state that flourished between 1450 and 1591, when it fell to a Moroccan invasion.

Tokugawa Shogunate

a dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867

Russo-Japanese War

(1904-1905) War between Russia and Japan over imperial possessions. Japan emerges victorious.

Fall of Constantinople

1453

Fall of the USSR

1991

WW1

1914-1918 (USA joined in 1917)

Start of WW1

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

End of WW1

Treaty of Versailles

Fall of the Ottoman empire

1922

WW2

1939-1945

start of WW2

Hitler invading Poland