AP World Unit 5 Vocabulary

Powerful Japanese family business organizations like the conglomerates in the United States were called what?

• Tanzimat

• Bushido

• Zaibatsu

• Meiji Restoration

The post-Renaissance period in European history devoted to the study and exploration of new ideas in science, politics, the arts, and philosophy was called what?

• Industrial Revolution

• Propaganda Movement

• Second Industrial Revolution

• Enlightenment Revolution

This was China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West.

• Zaibatsu

• Communism

• Reign of Terror

• Self-Strengthening Movement

This was a former prison in Paris that symbolized the abuses of the monarchy and the corrupt aristocracy; it was stormed by angry crowds on July 14,1789.

• Bourgeoisie

• Bastille

• Laissez-faire

• Voltaire

This is the desire of Jews to reestablish an independent homeland where their ancestors had lived in the Middle East.

• Realpolitik

• Dreyfus Affair

• Zionism

• Hundred Days of Reform

The transformation of human existence caused by the deliberate cultivation of particular plants and the deliberate taming and breeding of particular animals is called what?

• Seed Drill

• Crop Rotation

• Capitalism

• Agricultural Revolution

This was the “blank slate” that Locke proposed people were born with that could be filled with knowledge.

• Tabula Rasa

• Tanzimat

• Philosophes

• Genros

This stretched from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean, allowing Russia to trade easily with countries in East Asia.

• Coaling Stations

• Company Rule

• Trans-Siberian Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment; wrote Wealth of Nations which responded to mercantilism and called for freer trade.

• Cecil Rhodes

• Charles Fourier

• Adam Smith

• James Watt

These are organizations of workers that advocate for the right to bargain with employers and put resulting agreements in a contract.

• Labor Unions

• Social Contracts

• Monopoly

• Limited-Liability Corporations