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Characteristics of islam
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Muhammad formed it. quaran is holy book, Punished for wrong doing, Life after death.
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Characteristics of hinduism
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Mainly in India, wide variety of beliefs, mix of buddhist and other beliefs, spread to south east asia.
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Characteristics of confuciansm
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Public service, Chinese beliefs, chinese philosopher kongzi
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Scientific revolution
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Time in which people began to question society and its beliefs. Many scientific discoveries were made at this time.
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Who was locke?
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English political philosopher. wrote the second treatsie of civil government. Citizens should rebel.
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Who was Rousseau?
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French-Swiss intellectual. Wrote the social contract. Government can only thrive with the consent of the people.
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Who was Adam smith?
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Scottish social philosopher. Wrote the wealth of nations. Defined wealth as the amount of goods and services a country provides.
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Who was Montesquieu?
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Separation of powers
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Who was Hobbes?
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He thought that government was no a necessity but would make life easier.
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Characteristics of juddaism
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Israel, don't believe in jesus. Very similar to christianity.
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Christianity
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Jerusalem, believes in jesus.
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Buddhism
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Siddhartha Gautama, 4th largest religion in the world.
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Define philosophes
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Any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
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What were salons.
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where new ideas were shared.
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What is an enlightened despot?
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A ruler who encourages enlightenment and new ways of thinking
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Who was king louis xvi?
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He was the king of france. Found guilty of treason and killed
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What are some causes of the French Revolution?
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Political and social inequalitites, bankruptcy of government, influence of enlightenment
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What were some effects of the French Revolution?
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decline of nobility, equal rights, end of monarchy, constitution, bill of rights
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Who was napoleon?
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French military political leader, one of the most influencial figues of europe, made the empire of france.
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Garibaldi
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Italian and political figure. Took part and lead the intalian unification in the south
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Cavour
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Took place in italian unification . Lead the north.
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Bismark
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Prussian and German political leader. Took place in the unification of germany.
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romacnticism
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intellectual and artistic enlightened movement.
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agricultural revolution
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period of agricultural development in 18th century. Created tools.
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Industrial Revolution
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Period of economic development. Moved to cities to work in factories etc. Great period of industrialization
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What were some social problems with industrialization?
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Poor worked long, tough hours and forced to live in dirty conditions.
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Define capitalism
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n economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are privately owned and controlled rather than publicly or state-owned and controlled.
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Define socialism
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refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and an egalitarian society characterized by equal opportunities for all individuals and a fair or egalitarian distribution of wealth.
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Communism.
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Created by ideas of Marx. : a theory advocating elimination of private property a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
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What was the suffrage movement.
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Women wanted more rights.
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Define self-rule
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government of a political unit by its own people
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consequences of the 2nd industrial revolution
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economy ^ pollution levels rose.
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Define Social Darwinism
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The application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.
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Causes of imperialism
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compete for land, white mans responsibility,
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What is the white mans burden
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White men have to help other races to survive. Responsibility
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Define Direct Rule
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When an empire takes over they use their own rulers
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Define indirect rule
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When an empire takes over they use local rulers.
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What was the berlin conference
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scramble for africa. Split up africa like cake.
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Suez Canal
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allows for ships to go from europe to asia without having to go around africa.
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What was the sepoy mutiny.
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The growing Indian discontent with British rule erupted on May 10, 1857. The sepoys, who were Indians trained by the British as soldiers, heard rumors that the cartridges for their new Enfield rifles were greased with lard and beef fat
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Boer War
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The First Boer War (1880–1881), also known as the "Transvaal War," was a relatively brief conflict in which Boer settlers successfully resisted a British attempt to annex the Transvaal, and re-established an independent republic
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Pacific Rim
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refers to the countries and cities located around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Enconomic Center.
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Opium Wars
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British smuggling of opium from British India into China in defiance of China's drug laws erupted into open warfare between Britain and China.
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Taiping rebellion
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large-scale revolt against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted by an army and civil administration
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Boxer Rebellion
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anti-foreign movement by the boxers in china
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Meiji era
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denotes the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor. Time of enlightenment ruling
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Japanese Expansion
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Japan wanted to expand and started to take over surrounding land.
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Russo-japanese war
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Russia didn't want japan to take over aurther port and then war broke out.
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Extraterritoriality
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state of being exempt from the jurisdiction of local law
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How were women treated in japan and china?
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Very badly, had to pertake in footbinding etc.
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Causes of world war 1
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1:triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand
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Total War
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using all resources and all will power towards the war.
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treaty of versailles
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ended world war 1, Germany was blamed for the war, split up territories
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league of nations
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Created after ww1, The League of Nation's task was simple - to ensure that war never broke out again
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Totalitarianism
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ex: Stalin Government controls every aspect of private and public life
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Long March
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a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
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Global consequences of great depression
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US's economy crashing caused other economies to crash too. Depression spread throughout the world.
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Fascism
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authoritarian nationalist ideology focused on solving economic, political, and social problems that its supporters see as causing national decline or decadence. Use army and navy a lot
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Mussolini
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an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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Hitler
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was an Austrian-born politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. joined the Nazi Party
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Nazism
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refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party under Adolf Hitler;
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causes of ww2
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Germany invading poland,
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Consequences of world war 2
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many countries in debt, many people killed, technological advancements
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appeasement
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a bid to reach a peaceful understanding with Germany.
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major turning points of european theatre
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Stalingrad: was a battle between Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union
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major turning points of pacific theatre
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Pearl Harbor, D-Day
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What is island hopping?
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not attacking every island, just random ones
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who were the kamikaze
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japanese poliots that went on suicide missions
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holocaust
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state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime
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Cold War
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The Cold War was the state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union
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united nations
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Groups of countries that have come together to promote peace
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iron curtain
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The "Iron Curtain" was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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What was NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization: an international organization established for purposes of collective security
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What was the warsaw pact?
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Agreement between soviet union and its allies
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What was the cultural revolution?
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promotion of communism. Took students out of classrooms to use red books.
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Who was deng xiaoping
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He replaces mao and helped to modernize china .
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