2. Regents Vocab A-E

3. 500 100 200 300 100 300 200 300 200 100 200 500 300 200 100 400 ABD/EF/GC

4. What is it? A $100 South African policy that separated people based on race

5. Apartheid Back to Game

6. Political system where a king or queen has complete authority over the government and citizens lives What is…? A $200

7. Absolutism Back to Game

8. Group formed by opponents to apartheid, led by Mandela that encouraged activism What is…? A $300

9. African National Congress Back to Game

10. What is…? A $400 Policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands to keep the peace (Munich, 1938)

11. Appeasement Good Answer! Back to Game

12. The belief that every living and non-living thing has a spirit What is…? A $500

13. Back to Game Animism

14. War in 1899 between the British and Dutch settlers in South Africa over recently discovered diamonds What is…? B $100

15. Boer War Back to Game

16. A contagious disease that devastated the world in the 1300s What is…? B $200

17. Bubonic Plague Back to Game

18. Distribution of political and economic power prevent one country from becoming too powerful (goal of Congress of Vienna) B $300

19. Back to Game Balance of Power

20. What is…? B $400 Event in 1900 where a group of Chinese radicals attacked foreigners with the goal to remove them from China

21. Boxer Rebellion Back to Game

22. What is…? B $500 Code of conduct similar to chivalry for Japanese knights in feudal Japan

23. Bushido Back to Game

24. Economic system where the means of production (factories) are privately owned and operated What is…? C $100

25. Capitalism Back to Game

27. The business revolution after the middle ages when buying and selling items began based around money (capitalism was created) What is…? C $200

28. Commercial Revolution Back to Game

29. What is…? C $300 Cold War policy that involved trying to limit communism to the areas where it was already established (Truman Doctrine)

30. Containment (think Korea &Vietnam War) Back to Game

31. What is…? C $400 Name of Spanish explorers who “conquered” Latin America in the 1500s

32. Conquistadors Back to Game

33. What is…? C $500 An economy based on raising and selling one crop or a small number of crops (especially in Latin America)

34. Cash Crop Economy Back to Game

35. What is…? D/E $100 System of government in which citizens participate directly rather than through representatives (think Ancient Greece)

36. Direct Democracy Back to Game

37. What is…? D/E $200 Policy of forcibly removing or killing a certain ethnic group (think the Balkans/the Serbs)

38. Ethnic Cleansing Back to Game

39. What is…? D/E $300 European organization that works toward free trade and unity among European countries – created the Euro

40. European Union Back to Game

41. What is…? D/E $400 Period in the 1700s where people rejected traditional ideas in favor of ideas based on reason and logic (hint: Age of Reason)

42. The Enlightenment Back to Game

43. What is…? D/E $500 System created by the Spanish govt to force Native Americans to work for them and pay taxes

44. Encomienda System Back to Game

45. What is…? F/G $100 Type of govt ruled by a dictator that is nationalistic and imperialistic (think Hitler & Mussolini)

46. Fascism Back to Game

47. What is…? F/G $200 Non-violent revolution in the 1500s in Great Britain that set up a limited monarchy

48. Glorious Revolution Back to Game

49. What is…? F/G $300 Program by Mao Zedong that aimed to increase industry and agricultural output

50. Great Leap Forward Back to Game

51. What is…? F/G $400 Gorbachev’s policy in the Soviet Union that called for “openness” in political discussion

52. Glasnost Back to Game

53. What is…? F/G $500 Time of great change in agriculture when new plants and improved techniques were used that increased output

54. Green Revolution Back to Game