World Cultures Final
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- Mansa Musa
- ruler of mali. expanded his empire. ensured peace and order
- Kwame Nkrumah
- organized strikes and boycotts to protest British rule. leader of ghana
- \"Middle Passage\"
- a vast forced Migration moving aftricans 1000s of miles away from home to be enslaved
- Deng Xiao Ping
- China\'s leader after mao and founded the Four Modernizations
- Four Modernizations
- called for modernizing agricuture, expanding industry, developing science and technology and upgrading China\'s defense forces.
- Sun Yatse
- served as president of the new republic of china. organized Guomindang (nationalist party) against the Qing Dynasty. Overthrown by a powerful general, Yuan Shikai.
- enterpreneurs
- one who sets up his/her own business using their own money
- leaching
- dissolving n washing away of the soil\'s nutrients by constant heavy rains
- lineage
- group of distant kinship who trace their descendant to a common ancestor
- consensus
- common agreement
- socialism
- system in which the government owns and operates major businesses and controls other parts of the economy
- multinational corporation
- huge business enterprises with branches in many countries
- loess
- yellow brown soil that winds carry across north china plain into the yellow river
- sphere of influence
- area of a country in which a foreign has special economic priveleges such as the right to build railroads and factories
- extraterritoriality
- principle allowing westerners accused of a crime in china to be tried in a western-run court instead of chinese courts
- totalitarian state
- nation in which the government controls every aspect of citizens lives through a single party dictatorship
- capitalism
- free market economic system in which the means of production are owned and operated by indiviuals for profit
- proletariat
- industrial working class
- collective farm
- farm operated and managed under the government direction
- commune
- community in which all property is held in common, living quarters are shared, and physical needs are provided in exchange for labor
- oligarchy
- system of government in which a small elite has a ruling power
- mandate of heaven
- chinese belief that heaven grants a ruler a mandate, or right to rule. in turn the people owe the ruler complete royalty and obedience
- F W de Klerrk
- South African president who lifted ban on groups opposing to apartheid
- Nelson Mandela
- first black president of south aftrica who spent 27 years in prison for opposing racial policies
- pu yi
- china\'s last emperor