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| 339401409 | population revolution | huge growth in population in Western Europe beginning about 1730; prelude to industrialization. | 0 | |
| 339401410 | Proto-industrialization | preliminary shift away from an agricultural economy; workers become full or part-time producers who worked at home in a capitalist system in which materials, work, orders, and sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to the Industrial Revolution. | 1 | |
| 339401411 | American Revolution | rebellion of the British American Atlantic seaboard colonies; ended with the formation of the independent United States. | 2 | |
| 339401412 | French Revolution | overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy through a revolution beginning in 1789; created a republic and eventually ended with Napoleon's French empire; the source of many liberal movements and constitutions in Europe. | 3 | |
| 339401413 | Louis XVI | Bourbon ruler of France who was executed during the radical phase of the French Revolution. | 4 | |
| 339401414 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | adopted during the French Revolution; proclaimed the equality of French citizens; became a source document for later liberal movements. | 5 | |
| 339401415 | guillotine | introduced as a method of humane execution; utilized during the French Revolution against thousands of individuals, especially during the Reign of Terror. | 6 | |
| 339401416 | Robespierre | leader of the radical phase of the French Revolution; presided over the Reign of Terror; arrested and executed by moderate revolutionaries. | 7 | |
| 339401417 | Napoleon Bonaparte: | army officer who rose in rank during the wars of the French Revolution; ended the democratic phase of the revolution; became emperor; deposed and exiled in 1815. | 8 | |
| 339401418 | Congress of Vienna | met in 1815 after the defeat of France to restore the European balance of power. | 9 | |
| 339401419 | liberalism | political ideology that flourished in 19th-century western Europe; stressed limited state interference in private life, representation of the people in government; urged importance of constitutional rule and parliaments. | 10 | |
| 339401420 | radicals | followers of a 19th-century western European political emphasis: advocated broader voting rights than liberals; urged reforms favoring the lower classes. | 11 | |
| 339401421 | socialism | political ideology in 19th-century Europe; attacked private property in the name of equality; wanted state control of the means of production and an end to the capitalistic exploitation of the working class. | 12 | |
| 339401422 | nationalism | European 19th-century viewpoint; often allied with other "isms"; urged the importance of national unity; valued a collective identity based on ethnic origins. | 13 | |
| 339401423 | Greek revolution | rebellion of the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire in 1820; a key step in the disintegration of the Turkish Balkan empire. | 14 | |
| 339401424 | French Revolution of 1830 | second revolution against the Bourbon dynasty; a liberal movement which created a bourgeois government under a moderate monarchy. | 15 | |
| 339401425 | Belgian Revolution of 1830 | produced Belgian independence from the Dutch; established a constitutional monarchy. | 16 | |
| 339401426 | Reform Bill of 1832 | British legislation that extended the vote to most male members of the middle class. | 17 | |
| 339401427 | James Watt | devised a steam engine in the 1770s that could be used for production in many industries; a key step in the Industrial Revolution. | 18 | |
| 339401428 | factory system | intensification of all of the processes of production at a single site during the Industrial Revolution; involved greater organization of labor and increased discipline. | 19 | |
| 339407471 | Luddites | workers in Britain who responded to the replacement of their labor by machines during the Industrial Revolution by attempting to destroy machines; named after the fictional worker Ned Ludd. | 20 | |
| 339407472 | Chartist Movement | unsuccessful attempt by British artisans and workers to gain the vote during the 1840s. | 21 | |
| 339407473 | French Revolution of 1848 | overthrew the French monarchy established in 1830; briefly established the 2nd French Republic. | 22 | |
| 339407474 | Revolutions of 1848 | the nationalist and liberal movements within the Habsburg Empire (Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary); after temporary success they were suppressed. | 23 | |
| 339407475 | Louis Pasteur | discoverer of germs and of the purifying process named after him. | 24 | |
| 339407476 | Benjamin Disraeli | British politician; granted the vote to working-class males in 1867; an example of conservative politicians keeping stability through reform. | 25 | |
| 339407477 | Camillo di Cavour | architect of Italian unification in 1858; created a constitutional Italian monarchy under the King of Piedmont. | 26 | |
| 339407478 | Otto von Bismarck | conservative prime minister of Prussia; architect of German unification under the Prussian king in 1871; utilized liberal reforms to maintain stability. | 27 | |
| 339407479 | American Civil War (1861-1865) | fought to prevent secession of the southern states; the first war to incorporate the products and techniques of the Industrial Revolution; resulted in the abolition of slavery and the reunification of the United States. | 28 | |
| 339407480 | transformismo | political system in Italy that allied conservative and liberals in support of the status quo. | 29 | |
| 339407481 | "social question" | issues relating to workers and women, in western Europe during the Industrial Revolution; became more critical than constitutional issues after 1870. | 30 | |
| 339407482 | Karl Marx | German socialist who saw history as a class struggle between groups out of power and those controlling the means of production; preached the inevitability of social revolution and the creation of a proletarian dictatorship. | 31 | |
| 339407483 | revisionism | socialist thought that disagreed with Marx's formulation; believed that social and economic progress could be achieved through existing political institutions. | 32 | |
| 339407484 | feminist movements | sought legal and economic gains for women, among them equal access to professions and higher education; came to concentrate on the right to vote; won initial support from middle-class women. | 33 | |
| 339407485 | mass leisure culture | an aspect of the later Industrial Revolution; decreased time at work and offered opportunities for new forms of leisure time, such as vacation trips and team sports. | 34 | |
| 339407486 | Charles Darwin | biologist who developed the theory of evolution of species; argued that all living forms evolved through the successful ability to adapt in a struggle for survival. | 35 | |
| 339407487 | Albert Einstein | formulated mathematical theories to explain the behavior of planetary motion and the movement of electrical particles; about 1900 issued the theory of relativity. | 36 | |
| 339407488 | Sigmund Freud | Viennese physician who developed theories of the workings of the human unconscious; argued that behavior is determined by impulses. | 37 | |
| 339407489 | Romanticism | 19th western European artistic and literary movement; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection. | 38 | |
| 339407490 | American exceptionalism | historical argument that the development of the United States was largely individualistic and that contact with Europe was incidental to American formation. | 39 | |
| 339407491 | Triple Alliance | alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy at the end of the 19th century; part of the European balance of power system before World War I. | 40 | |
| 339407492 | Triple Entente: | agreement between Britain, Russia, and France in 1907; part of the European balance of power system before World War I. | 41 | |
| 339407493 | Balkan nationalism | movements to create independent states and reunite ethnic groups in the Balkans; provoked crises within the European alliance system that ended with the outbreak of World War I. | 42 | |
| 339413932 | Kingdom of Mataram | controlled most of interior Java in the 17th century; weakness of the state after the 1670s allowed the Dutch to expand their control over all of Java. | 43 | |
| 339413933 | sepoys | Indian troops, trained in European style, serving the French and British. | 44 | |
| 339413934 | Raj | the British political establishment in India. | 45 | |
| 339413935 | Plassey (1757) | battle between the troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj-ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory gave them control of northeast India. | 46 | |
| 339413936 | Robert Clive | architect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of the Raj in northern India. | 47 | |
| 339413937 | Presidencies | three districts that comprised the bulk of British ruled territories in India during the early 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. | 48 | |
| 339413938 | Princely States | ruled by Indian princes allied with the Raj; agents of the East India Company were stationed at their courts to ensure loyalty. | 49 | |
| 339413939 | nabobs | name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly. | 50 | |
| 339413940 | Charles Cornwallis | British official who reformed East India Company corruption during the 1790s. | 51 | |
| 339413941 | Isandhlwana (1879) | Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies. | 52 | |
| 339413942 | tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations. | 53 | |
| 339413943 | White Dominions | a type of settlement colony - as in North America and Australia - where European settlers made up the majority of the population. | 54 | |
| 339413944 | settler colonies | colonies - as South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii - where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples. | 55 | |
| 339413945 | white racial supremacy | belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before World War I. | 56 | |
| 339413946 | Great Trek | migration into the South African interior of thousands of Afrikaners seeking to escape British control. | 57 | |
| 339413947 | Boer republics | independent states - the Orange Free State and Transvaal; - established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners. | 58 | |
| 339413948 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics. | 59 | |
| 339413949 | Boer War (1899-1902) | fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and post-war policies left African, population of South Africa under Afrikaner control. | 60 | |
| 339413950 | James Cook | his voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 opened the islands to the West. | 61 | |
| 339413951 | Kamehameha | Hawaiian prince; with British backing he created a unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of Western ideas in commerce and social relations. | 62 | |
| 339413952 | Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts; that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interests. | 63 |
