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9016989959Caste War of the YucatanConflict between Mayan Indians and the Mexican state over Indian autonomy and legal equality, which resulted in the Mexican takeover of the Yucatan peninsula.0
9016991647Usman dan FodioFulani Muslim cleric whose visions led him to challenge the Hausa ruling classes, whom he believed were insufficiently faithful to Islamic beliefs and practices. His ideas gained support among those who had suffered under the Hausa landlords. In 1804, his supporters and allies overthrew the Hausa in what is today northern Nigeria.1
9016991648liberalismPolitical and social theory that advocates representative government, free trade, and freedom of speech and religion.2
9016993830MarxismForm of scientific socialism created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that was rooted in a materialist theory of history: what mattered in history were the production of material goods and the ways in which society was organized into classes of producers and exploiters.3
9016993831Mfecane movementAfrican political revolts in the first half of the nineteenth century that were caused by the expansionist methods of King Shaka of the Zulu people.4
9016998195millenarianConvinced of the imminent coming of a just and ideal society.5
9016998196proletariansIndustrial wage workers.6
9017001409Taiping RebellionRebellion by followers of Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom against the Qing government over the economic and social turmoil caused by the Opium War. Despite raising an army of 100,000 rebels, the rebellion was crushed.7
9017004935TenskwatawaShawnee prophet who urged disciples to abstain from alcohol and return to traditional customs, reducing dependence on European trade goods and severing connections to Christian missionaries. His message spread to other tribes, raising the specter of a pan-Indian confederacy.8
9017007317utopian socialismThe most visionary of all Restoration-era movements. People who did this were like Charles Fourier dreaming of transforming states, workplaces, and human relations and proposed plans to do so.9
9017009179WahhabismEarly-eighteenth-century reform movement organized by Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab, who preached the absolute oneness of Allah and a return to the pure Islam of Muhammad.10

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