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World History Vocabulary List
World History Vocabulary List
Unit 1:
Feudal System
City State
Mandate of Heaven
Catholicism
Orthodoxy
Papacy
Great Schism
Byzantine Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Mehmed II
Ming Dynasty
Black Death
Yersinia pestis
The Crusades
Reconquista
Renaissance
Confucianism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Caste System
Islam
Sunni Islam
Shia Islam
Maya City States
Aztec Empire
Incan Empire
Sahel
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Ethiopia
Zanzibar
Mombasa
Great Zimbabwe
Centralization
Urbanization
State Formation
Centripetal Force
Centrifugal Force
Silk Road
Indian Ocean Trade
Trans Saharan Trade
North Sea Trade
Mediterranean Trade
American Trade Networks
Mongolian Empire
Genghis Khan
Yuan Dynasty
Kublai Khan
Ming Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Confucian Bureaucracy
Feudal Japan
Sengoku Jidai
Shogunate
Daimyo
Samurai
Zheng He
Mansa Musa
Marco Polo
Galley
Venice
Genoa
Dhow
Junk
Treasure Fleet
Caravel
Compass
Astrolabe
Suggested Readings:
1453 by Roger Crowley
1491 by Charles Mann
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Unit 2:
Land Based Empires
Climate Change
Gunpowder Empires
Absolutism
Ottoman Empire
Suleiman the Magnificent
Devshrime
Millet System
Janissaries
Safavid Empire
Shah Ismail
Mughal Empire
Akbar the Great
Shah Jahan
Aurangzeb
Religious Toleration
Russian Tsardom
Muscovy
Streletsy
Boyar
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Templo Mayor
Moctezuma II
Tributary System
Hernan Cortes
Legitimacy
Printing Press
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
Charles V (HRE)
Elizabeth I
Phillip II
Henry of Navarre
French Wars of Religion
30 Years War
Treaty of Westphalia
Edict of Nantes
Tokugawa Shogunate
Suggested Readings:
95 Theses by Martin Luther https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“The General Crisis of the 17th Century” H. R. Trevor-Roper
The Qing Dynasty “Sacred Edict” http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/qing_sacred_edict.pdf
Unit 3:
Colonialism
Imperialism
Mercantilism
Casta System
Peninsulares
Encomienda
Creoles
Mestizos
Columbian Exchange
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Smallpox
Settler Colonies
Maritime Empires
New Spain
Bernardino de Sahagun
New France
Jesuits
Thirteen Colonies
Brazil
Caravel
Compass
Lateen Sail
Sugar Plantation
Pueblo Revolt
Comanche Empire
The Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei
Sir Isaac Newton
Nicholas Copernicus
The Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
Baron de Montesquieu
Liberalism
English Civil War
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Jacobite Rebellion
The Atlantic Revolutions
George Washington
George III
Declaration of Independence
American Revolution
Haitian Revolution
French Revolution
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Maximillian Robespierre
Reign of Terror
Jacobins
Latin American Revolutions
Simon Bolivar
Jose de San Martin
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Era
Klemens von Metternich
Concert of Europe
Suggested Readings:
General History of the Things of New Spain by Bernardino de Sahagun
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself by Olaudah Equiano (Gutavus Vassa)
Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Declaration of the Rights of Man
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Unit 4:
Industrial Revolution (1st and 2nd)
Second Agricultural Revolution
The Long 19th Century
Nationalism
Karl Marx
Trade Unions
Labor movement
Communism
Anarchism
Socialism
Conservatism
“Springtime of Nations”
1848 Revolutions
Otto von Bismarck
Camillo di Cavour
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Social Welfare
Laissez Faire Capitalism
Cecil Rhodes
Andrew Carnegie
Mexican Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
Poncho Villa
Emmanuel Zapata
Feminism
1st Wave Feminism
Suffragettes
Abolitionism
Serfdom
Suggested Readings:
Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen by Olympe de Gouges
https://revolution.chnm.org/d/293/
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
“Rerum Novarum” by Pope Leo XIII
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Unit 5:
“White Man’s Burden”
Humanitarianism
Oil
Rubber
Tea
Silk
Cotton
Market Access
Nationalism
Imperialism
Second Wave of Colonialism
Charles Darwin
“Survival of the Fittest”
Scientific Racism
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Scramble for Africa
Quinine
Anglo-Zulu War
Mahdist Revolt
The Mahdi
Spheres of Influence
The Great Game
East India Company
British Raj
Indirect Rule
Direct Rule
Century of Humiliation
Opium Wars
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
Meiji Restoration
Meiji Emperor
Russo-Japanese War
Nicholas II
Boer Wars
Suggested Readings:
“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_burden.htm
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Passing of a Great Race by Madison Grant
The Meiji Constitution
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/meiji_constitution.pdf
“Observations on a Trip to America” By Liang Qichao
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/liang_qichao_observations.pdf
Puck Magazine
Unit 6:
Splendid Isolation
Chinese Revolution
Sun Yat Sen
Chang Kai Shek
Revanchism
Militarism
Conscription
Mobilization
Total War
War Economy
Communism
Vladimir Lenin
German Empire
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Weimar Germany
Stab in the Back
Bolshevik Revolution
Soviet Union
Liberalism
Woodrow Wilson
Multi-Ethnic Empires
Russian Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ottoman Empire in WW1
Nation-States
3rd French Republic
United Kingdom
Self Determination
Network of Alliances
Suggested Readings:
The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
What is to be Done by Vladimir Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
10 Days the Shook the World by Jack Reed
https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
“14 Points for Peace”by Woodrow Wilson
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/peace/fourteen-points
“The Principle of Democracy” by Sun Yat Sen
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/sun_yatsen_democracy.pdf
Unit 7:
Totalitarianism
War Communism
Gulag System
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Spanish Civil War
Nazi Germany
Axis Powers
Holocaust
Shoah
Extermination Camp
Concentration Camp
Adolf Hitler
FDR
Great Depression
Imperial Japan
Pearl Harbor
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Tehran Conference
Potsdam Conference
Yalta Conference
Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa
Western Front
Operation Overlord
Pacific Theater
Island Hopping
Manhattan project
Atomic Bomb
United Nations
Suggested Readings:
“Appeal to the Nation” by Adolf Hitler
http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/appeal_to_the_nation.htm
“The Murder of ‘Unproductive’ Persons” by Bishop von Galen
http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/the_murder_of_unproductive_persons.htm
If this is a Man by Primo Levi
“The Banality of Evil” by Hannah Arendt
The Atlantic Charter
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/atlantic-conf
“What Journalists should know about the Atomic Bombings” by Alex Wellerstein
https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/06/09/what-journalists-should-know-about-the-atomic-bombings/
The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb by Henry Stimson
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Unit 8:
Communism
Mao Zedong
Chang Kai Shek
Chinese Civil War
Great Leap Forwards
Cultural Revolution
Truman Doctrine
Long Telegram
Marshall Plan
Containment
Capitalism
Cold War
Mutually Assured Destruction
ICBM
Decolonization
Suez Crisis
Human Rights
Internationalism
The UN
Proxy Wars
Korean War
Vietnam War
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Space Race
NATO
Marshall Plan
Warsaw Pact
Prague Spring/Soviet-Hungarian War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro
Batista
Unaligned Countries
Gandhi
Nasser
Berlin Wall
Nikita Khruschev
Mikael Gorbachev
JFK
Ronald Reagan
Suggested Readings:
The Long Telegram
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm
The Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill
https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1946-1963-elder-statesman/the-sinews-of-peace/
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
“A brief history of the nuclear triad” by Alex Wellersten
https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/07/15/brief-history-nuclear-triad/
Postwar by Tony Judt
Origins of the Cold War: An International History by Melvyn Leffler and David S. Painter
Unit 9:
Globalization
Francis Fukuyama
“The End of History”
Epidemic/Pandemic Diseases
Covid 19
SARS
HIV/AIDS
Green Revolution
Neo-Malthusian Theories
Environmentalism
Conservation
Endangered Species Act
Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act
Climate Change
Pollution
Ozone Layer
DDT
Cuyahoga River
Islamism
Iranian Revolution
Al-Qaeda
ISIS
Taliban
Terrorism
9/11
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
Arab Spring
Color Revolutions
Pop Culture
Hollywood
Bollywood
WTO
IMF
Structural Adjustment
Belt and Road Initiative
Neo-Colonialism
Internet
European Union
African Union
OPEC
NAFTA
Social Media
Populism
2008 Financial Crisis
War in Ukraine
Suggested Readings:
“The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bslantchev/courses/pdf/Fukuyama%20-%20End%20of%20History.pdf
Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntingdon
Axis of Evil Speech by George W Bush
https://www.wheelersburg.net/Downloads/Bush%20Axis%20of%20Evil.pdf
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
“Laudato Si” by Pope Francis
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
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