| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Three Gorges dam china | river dam that spans the Yangtzes river. |
| Major concepts of china | Ethnocentrism,dynasty,mandate of hevan,barbarian,kowtow,and bureaucrat |
| Social class systems china | gentry,scholars,farmers,peasents,artisans,merchants,scientist, and soldiers. |
| Taoism china | Way of nature |
| Important events china | Boxer rebelluion, Opium wars, fall of Qing Gov't, War b/n Nationals and communist,long march, WW2, The est. of peoples rights in china, cultural rev. |
| Environmental reigons india | Himalayas, Plains, and peninsula |
| Major religons india | Hinduism, Sikism, Islam, Buddhism, and Jainism |
| Castes india | Bramans, Kahatriyas, Vaisya, and sundras |
| Types of familes india | Nuclear, extended, and joint familes |
| Early History in india | Indus river valley, Mughal empire, islamic empire |
| Important people in early history india | Asoka, Babur, Akbar, Shah jahn, Jawarharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi |
| Contemporary india | Health and education |
| Importent people russia | Ivan III, NicholasII, Gorbachev |
| Contemporary Russia | Transition from communism to capitaliam |
| Major rivers | Indus river, Ganges river |
| important people India | Siddhartha Gutama |
| Untouchability | the quality or condition of being an untouchable, ascribed in the Vedic tradition to persons of low caste or to persons excluded from the caste system. |
| Role of women in India | Treated unfarely next to men |
| Aryan invasion | Indo-European nomadic people who took over India. Warrior-like people |
| Green revolution | goal was to slow India's population growth |
| Major river systems Russia | the baltic sea , the black sea |
| Ivan IV (Ivan the terrible) | the most powerful of the early czars. Learned, religious, and cruel. Saw treason everywhere and arrested, exiled, or excecuted many advisors, reduced boyars power, increased Russia's trade with western Europe and worked to expand borders, conquered Mongul lands to the east and south of Moscow |
| Rasputin | Mad monk who tried to stop Russia from going to war |
| Yeltsin | First democratically elected president of Russia. |
| Causes of russian revolution | World War 1 Large number of peasants shortage of food not industrialized no power to legislature Czar Nicholas absolute ruler Vladimir Rasputin |
| Major deserts china | Gobi desert, and Takla desert |
| Cixi | (Person) Although this person ruled China for a long time, he/she was not a direct descendant of the Manchu court, and this person could be seen as the puppet in the puppet government of China. |
| Pu Yi | (Person) Last Emperor of China. became emporer at age 3 |
| Shihuangdi | First Grand Emperor, a Chinese emperor who founded the Qin dynasty and unified China with a standardized system of writing and money. |
| Role of women in china | in some peoples veiw in china, women were so inferior that they were sometimes thought of as less useful than farm animals |
| legalism | Philosophy of the Gov't |
| Causes of chinese revolution | Mao zedong trying to make China better |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese communist statesman (1904-1997) |
| Peter the great | czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government |
| Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) |
| Peter the great | ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, wanted closer ties to western europe, modernize and strengthen Russia |
| Putin | Current Russian president |
| cold war | Ideological struggle between US and USSR. Included client states. |
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