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| 12958896785 | Scientific Method | a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world where experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses | 0 | |
| 12958896786 | Social Contract | the agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government (Rousseau) | 1 | |
| 12958896787 | Natural Rights | the rights that all people are born with - according to John Locke, the rights of life, liberty, and property | 2 | |
| 12958896788 | Enlightened Despot | One of the 18th century European monarchs who were inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of their subjects (Frederick II of Prussia, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II of Austria, and Catherine the Great of Russia) | 3 | |
| 12958896789 | Separation of Powers | the assignment of executive, legislative, and judicial powers to different groups of officials in a government ("Power should be a check to power" - Baron Montesquieu) |  | 4 |
| 12958896790 | Philosophes | group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment | 5 | |
| 12958896791 | Federal system | system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states |  | 6 |
| 12958896792 | Checks and balances | measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others | 7 | |
| 12958896793 | Old Regime | political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution (left over from the Middle Ages) | 8 | |
| 12958896794 | estate | one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution (First Estate=clergy; Second Estate=nobility; Third Estate=rest of the population) | 9 | |
| 12958896795 | bourgeoisie | in social and political theory, the social order dominated by the land-owning class. In the 19th century, the term became associated with the middle class | 10 | |
| 12958896796 | coup d'etat | sudden seizure of political power in a nation | 11 | |
| 12958896797 | plebiscite | a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal | 12 | |
| 12958896798 | Balance of power | a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others | 13 | |
| 12958896799 | legitimacy | hereditary right of a monarch to rule | 14 | |
| 12958896800 | conservatives | in the first half of the 19th century, Europeans who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe (mostly wealthy landowners) | 15 | |
| 12958896801 | liberals | in the first half of the 19th century, Europeans who wanted to give more political power to elected parliaments (mostly middle-class business leaders and merchants) | 16 | |
| 12958896802 | radicals | in the first half of the 19th century, those Europeans who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people | 17 | |
| 12958896803 | socialism | an economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all | 18 | |
| 12958896804 | nation-state | an independent nation of people having a common culture and identity (ie: France, Spain) | 19 | |
| 12958896805 | nationalism | the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation - that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history - rather than to a king or empire | 20 | |
| 12958896806 | Zionism | 19th century nationalist movement for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine | 21 | |
| 12958896807 | self-determination | the determining by the people of the form their government shall have, without reference to the wishes of any other nation, especially by people of a territory of former colony | 22 | |
| 12958896808 | Suffrage | the right of voting | 23 | |
| 12958896809 | Universal manhood suffrage | voting for all male citizens | 24 | |
| 12958896810 | Universal suffrage | voting for all citizens regardless of ethnicity, sex, or religion | 25 | |
| 12958896811 | Imperialism | policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially | 26 | |
| 12958896812 | Cultural imperialism | domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority | 27 | |
| 12958896813 | Colonialism | policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power | 28 | |
| 12958896814 | Extraterritoriality | the right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of the host country. In the 19th and 20th century, European and American nationals living in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right | 29 | |
| 12958896815 | Annexation | the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit | 30 | |
| 12958896816 | Social Darwinism | the application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as justification for imperialist expansion | 31 | |
| 12958896817 | Sphere of Influence | an area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges; includes treaty ports - trade cities opened to foreign residents as a result of forced treaties, in treaty ports foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality | 32 | |
| 12958896818 | Economic Imperialism | independent but less developed nations controlled by private business interests rather than by other governments | 33 | |
| 12958896819 | Cottage industries | weaving, sewing, carving and other small scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers, frequently women, are usually independent laborers using raw materials supplied to them by capitalist entrepreneurs | 34 | |
| 12958896820 | Industry | the process of making products by using machinery and factories | 35 | |
| 12958896821 | Labor union | an organization of workers in a particular industry or trade, created to defend the interests of members (working conditions, wages) through strikes or negotiations with employers | 36 | |
| 12958896822 | laissez-faire | an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws | 37 | |
| 12958896823 | urbanization | the growth of cities and the migration of people into them | 38 | |
| 12958896824 | Protectorate | a country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power | 39 | |
| 12958896825 | colony | a country or a region governed internally by a foreign power | 40 | |
| 12958896826 | pogrom | an organized campaign of violence against Jewish communities in late 19th century Russia | 41 | |
| 12958896827 | millenarianism | belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action by a religious, social, or political group/movement | 42 | |
| 12958896828 | caudillo | a Spanish or Latin America military dictator |  | 43 |
| 12958896829 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Emperor of France from 1804-1815; took power through a coup d'état. Was a hero of the French Revolution and his legal reform (the Napoleonic code) influenced other legal systems around the world. He is considered to be one of the most superior military commanders of all time | 44 | |
| 12958896830 | Adam Smith | Seen as the founder of Capitalism. Enlightenment thinker and author of The Wealth of Nations in 1776. | 45 | |
| 12958896831 | Prince Klemens von Metternich | Austrian Foreign Minister who led the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815. Advocated a conservative stance when rebuilding Europe following the Napoleonic Wars | 46 | |
| 12958896832 | Karl Marx | Co-author of The Communist Manifesto - his theories heldd that societies progress through a class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (workers) |  | 47 |
| 12958896833 | Friedrich Engels | Co-author of The Communist Manifesto - made important contributions to family economics | 48 | |
| 12958896834 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan who played a key role in the Latin American struggle for independence from Spain and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America |  | 49 |
| 12958896835 | Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the civil war | 50 | |
| 12958896836 | Porfirio Diaz | President of Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Fought as a rebel during the French intervention and at the Battle of Puebla. Was overthrown during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. |  | 51 |
| 12958896837 | Muhammad Ali | Self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. Regarded as the founder of modern Egypt for his military and industrial reforms | 52 | |
| 12958896838 | Cecil Rhodes | English-born South African businessman responsible for helping claim much of Africa for Great Britain (From Cape Town to Cairo) | 53 | |
| 12958896839 | Queen Victoria | Longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and named Empress of India during that time |  | 54 |
| 12958896840 | King Leopold II | King of Belgium and sole owner of the Congo Free State in Africa, where he used force labor to acquire rubber | 55 | |
| 12958896841 | Alexander II | Russian czar responsible for the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861 and attempted other reforms in Russia after their defeat in the Crimean War |  | 56 |
| 12958896842 | Baron de Montesquieu | Enlightenment thinker who advocated the separation of powers and checks and balances within a government | 57 | |
| 12958896843 | Thomas Jefferson | American founding father, president, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence | 58 | |
| 12958896844 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French philosopher whose ideas of the social contract influenced both the American and French Revolutions | 59 | |
| 12958896845 | John Locke | English philosopher who believed all men were born with natural rights and it was the duty of the government to protect those rights. His work influenced the founding fathers of the United States | 60 | |
| 12958896846 | Marie Curie | Polish physicist and chemist responsible for pioneering research on radioactivity. Received two Nobel prizes in science for her research | 61 | |
| 12958896847 | Issac Newton | English mathematician who discovered the laws of motion and universal gravitation. Also shares credit for the creation of calculus | 62 | |
| 12958896848 | Louis Pasteur | French chemist whose experiments supported the germ theory of disease and helped create the first vaccines | 63 | |
| 12958896849 | Voltaire | French Enlightenment thinker and satirist who was a proponent of freedom of religion and expression as well as separation of church and state | 64 | |
| 12958896850 | James Watt | Scottish inventor remembered for his work with the steam engine |  | 65 |
| 12958896851 | Common Sense | Made Thomas Paine popular in America for advocating liberty from Britain | 66 | |
| 12958896852 | Declaration of Independence | document stating that the thirteen colonies were separate from Great Britain. Expressed the philosophy behind the Patriots' fight against British troops in America | 67 | |
| 12958896853 | Bastille | A former prison that still symbolized the abuses of the monarchy and the corrupt aristocracy |  | 68 |
| 12958896854 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Document from the French Revolution declaring basic human rights, 1789 | 69 | |
| 12958896855 | Civil Constitution of the Clergy | Abolished special privileges of the Catholic Church in France and put it under state control | 70 | |
| 12958896856 | Committee of Public Safety | Powerful group, led by Maximilien Robespierre, set up to defeat all enemies of the revolution. | 71 | |
| 12958896857 | Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen | Alienated the male dominated leadership of the French Revolution | 72 | |
| 12958896858 | Primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | 73 | |
| 12958896859 | Code Napoleon | All citizens were equal and ir provided for trial by jury and freedom of religion | 74 | |
| 12958896860 | Maroons | Escaped slaves | 75 | |
| 12958896861 | Benito Juarez | Indian lawyer from a background of poverty who became Mexico's president and eventually served five terms | 76 | |
| 12958896862 | La Reforma | Liberal revolt which resulted in a new constitution for Mexico in 1854 | 77 | |
| 12958896863 | José de San Martín | Creole in South America who defeated royalists to establish an independent government. "Protector of Peru" | 78 | |
| 12958896864 | Claude Henri de Saint-Simon | Advocated strongly for public works that would provide employment | 79 | |
| 12958896865 | Robert Owen | Established utopian communities at New Lanark in Scotland and New Harmony in the United States, where he insisted on providing some education for child workers | 80 | |
| 12958896866 | Prime Minster Camilo Benso | Count of Cavour of Piedmont-Sardinia; who helped to unify Italy as a constitutional monarchy | 81 | |
| 12958896867 | gauchos | A rough equivalent of the North American cowboy |  | 82 |
| 12958896868 | Spinning Jenny | Invented byJames Hargreaves in the 1760s, allowed a weaver to spin more than one thread at a time |  | 83 |
| 12958896869 | Water frame | Patented by Richard Arkwright in 1769, used water power to drive the spinning wheel | 84 | |
| 12958896870 | division of labor | The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job | 85 | |
| 12958896871 | crop rotation | Rotating different crops in and out of a field each year |  | 86 |
| 12958896872 | Seed drill | A device that efficiently places seeds in a designated spot in the ground |  | 87 |
| 12958896873 | Enclosure movement | Government fenced off the commons in order to give exclusive use of it to people who paid for the privilege or who purchased the land |  | 88 |
| 12958896874 | Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US | 89 | |
| 12958896875 | Slum | a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions | 90 | |
| 12958896876 | Stockholder | Individuals who buy partial ownership directly from the company when it is formed or later through a stock market | 91 | |
| 12958896877 | Captains of industry | Overshadowed the landed aristocracy as the power brokers and leaders of modern society | 92 | |
| 12958896878 | Utilitarianism | Sought the greatest good for the greatest number of people | 93 | |
| 12958896879 | Tanzimat | Reorganization/reform movement in late Ottoman empire | 94 | |
| 12958896880 | abolitionist movement | An international movement that between approximately 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States. |  | 95 |
| 12958896881 | Creoles | Native-born elites in the Spanish colonies. |  | 96 |
| 12958896882 | Estates-General | French representative assembly called into session by Louis XVI to address pressing problems and out of which the French Revolution emerged; the three estates were the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. |  | 97 |
| 12958896883 | Freetown | West African settlement in what is now Sierra Leone at which British naval commanders freed Africans they rescued from illegal slave ships. |  | 98 |
| 12958896884 | French Revolution | Massive dislocation of French society (1789-1815) that overthrew the monarchy, destroyed most of the French aristocracy, and launched radical reforms |  | 99 |
| 12958896885 | gens de couleur libres | Literally, "free people of color"; term used to describe freed slaves and people of mixed racial background of the Haitian Revolution. |  | 100 |
| 12958896886 | Haiti | Name that revolutionaries gave to the former French colony of Saint Domingue; the term means "mountainous" or "rugged" in the Taino language. |  | 101 |
| 12958896887 | Haitian Revolution | The only fully successful slave rebellion in world history; the uprising in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue (later renamed Haiti) |  | 102 |
| 12958896888 | Hidalgo-Morelos Revolution | Socially radical peasant insurrection that began in Mexico in 1810 and that was led by the priests | 103 | |
| 12958896889 | Latin American Revolutions | Series of risings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1826) that established the independence of new states from Spanish rule | 104 | |
| 12958896890 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | First leader of the Haitian Revolution, a former slave (1743-1803) . |  | 105 |
| 12958896891 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French head of state from 1799 until his abdication in 1814 (and again briefly in 1815); preserved much of the French Revolution under an autocratic system and was responsible for the spread of revolutionary ideals through his conquest of much of Europe. |  | 106 |
| 12958896892 | Nation | A clearly defined territory whose people have a sense of common identity and destiny, thanks to ties of blood, culture, language, or common experience. |  | 107 |
| 12958896893 | Nationalism | The focusing of citizens' loyalty on the notion that they are part of a "nation" with a unique culture, territory, and destiny; first became a prominent element of political culture in the nineteenth century. |  | 108 |
| 12958896894 | Petit Blancs | The "little" (or poor) white population of Saint Domingue, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution. |  | 109 |
| 12958896895 | Seneca Falls Conference | The first organized women's rights conference, 1848 |  | 110 |
| 12958896896 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States (1815-1902). |  | 111 |
| 12958896897 | the Terror | Term used to describe the revolutionary violence in France in 1793-1794, when radicals executed tens of thousands of people deemed enemies of the revolution. |  | 112 |
| 12958896898 | Third Estate | In prerevolutionary France, the term used for the 98 percent of the population that was neither clerical nor noble, |  | 113 |
| 12958896899 | Tupac Amaru | The last Inca emperor; in the 1780s, a Native American rebellion against Spanish control of Peru took place in his name. |  | 114 |
| 12958896900 | Bourgeoisie | Term that Karl Marx used to describe the owners of industrial capital; originally meant "townspeople." |  | 115 |
| 12958896901 | British Royal Society | Association of scientists established in England in 1660 that was dedicated to the promotion of "useful knowledge." |  | 116 |
| 12958896902 | Crimean War | Major international conflict (1854-1856) in which British and French forces defeated Russia; the defeat prompted reforms within Russia. |  | 117 |
| 12958896903 | Dependent development | Term used to describe Latin America's economic growth in the nineteenth century, which was largely financed by foreign capital and dependent on European and North American prosperity and decisions. |  | 118 |
| 12958896904 | Duma | The elected representative assembly grudgingly created in Russia by Tsar Nicholas II in response to the 1905 revolution. |  | 119 |
| 12958896905 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian doctor and the father of modern psychoanalysis (1856-1939); his theories about the operation of the human mind and emotions remain influential today |  | 120 |
| 12958896906 | Labour Party | British working-class political party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism, in time providing a viable alternative to the revolutionary emphasis of Marxism. |  | 121 |
| 12958896907 | Latin American Export Boom | Large-scale increase in Latin American exports (mostly raw materials and foodstuffs) to industrializing countries i |  | 122 |
| 12958896908 | Lenin | Pen name of Russian Bolshevik Vladimir Ulyanov (1870-1924), who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. |  | 123 |
| 12958896909 | Mexican Revolution | Long and bloody war (1911-1920) in which Mexican reformers from the middle class joined with workers and peasants to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Díaz and create a new, much more democratic political order. |  | 124 |
| 12958896910 | Model T | The first automobile affordable enough for a mass market; produced by American industrialist Henry Ford. |  | 125 |
| 12958896911 | Robert Owens | Socialist thinker and wealthy mill owner (1771-1858) who created an ideal industrial community at New Lanark, Scotland. |  | 126 |
| 12958896912 | Peter the Great | Tsar of Russia (r. 1689-1725) who attempted a massive reform of Russian society in an effort to catch up with the states of Western Europe. |  | 127 |
| 12958896913 | Populism | Late-nineteenth-century American political movement that denounced corporate interests of all kinds. |  | 128 |
| 12958896914 | Progressivism | American political movement in the period around 1900 that advocated reform measures to correct the ills of industrialization. |  | 129 |
| 12958896915 | Proletariat | Term that Karl Marx used to describe the industrial working class; originally used in ancient Rome to describe the poorest part of the urban population. |  | 130 |
| 12958896916 | Russian Revolution of 1905 | Spontaneous rebellion that erupted in Russia after the country's defeat at the hands of Japan; the revolution was suppressed, but it forced the government to make substantial reforms. |  | 131 |
| 12958896917 | Socialism in the United States | Fairly minor political movement in the United States, at its height in 1912 gaining 6 percent of the vote for its presidential candidate. |  | 132 |
| 12958896918 | Steam engine | Mechanical device in which the steam from heated water builds up pressure to drive a piston, rather than relying on human or animal muscle power; the introduction of this item allowed a hitherto unimagined increase in productivity and made the Industrial Revolution possible. |  | 133 |
| 12958896919 | Abd al-Hamid II | Ottoman sultan (r. 1876-1909) who accepted a reform constitution but then quickly suppressed it, ruling as a reactionary autocrat for the rest of his long reign. |  | 134 |
| 12958896920 | Boxer Rebellion | Rising of Chinese militia organizations in 1900 in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed |  | 135 |
| 12958896921 | China 1911 | The collapse of China's imperial order, officially at the hands of organized revolutionaries but for the most part under the weight of the troubles that had overwhelmed the Qing dynasty for the previous half-century. | 136 | |
| 12958896922 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration. |  | 137 |
| 12958896923 | Meiji Restoration | The overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan in 1868, restoring power at long last to the emperor |  | 138 |
| 12958896924 | Matthew Perry | U.S. navy commodore who in 1853 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world. |  | 139 |
| 12958896925 | Opium Wars | Two wars fought between Western powers and China (1839-1842 and 1856-1858) after China tried to restrict the importation of foreign goods; China lost both wars and was forced to make major concessions. |  | 140 |
| 12958896926 | Russo-Japanese War | Ending in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905. |  | 141 |
| 12958896927 | Samurai | Armed retainers of the Japanese feudal lords, famed for their martial skills and loyalty; in the Tokugawa shogunate, they gradually became an administrative elite, but they did not lose their special privileges until the Meiji restoration. |  | 142 |
| 12958896928 | Self-strengthening Movement | China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West. |  | 143 |
| 12958896929 | Selim III | Ottoman sultan (r. 1789-1807) who attempted significant reforms of his empire, including the implementation of new military and administrative structures. |  | 144 |
| 12958896930 | The Sick Man of Europe | Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a name based on the sultans' inability to prevent Western takeover of many regions and to deal with internal problems; it fails to recognize serious reform efforts in the Ottoman state during this period. |  | 145 |
| 12958896931 | Social Darwinism | An application of the concept of "survival of the fittest" to human history in the nineteenth century. |  | 146 |
| 12958896932 | Taiping Uprising | Massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millenarian teachings of Hong Xiuquan. |  | 147 |
| 12958896933 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Rulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868. |  | 148 |
| 12958896934 | Unequal treaties | Series of nineteenth-century treaties in which China made major concessions to Western powers. |  | 149 |
| 12958896935 | Young Ottomans | Group of would-be reformers in the mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials, military officers, and writers; they urged the extension of Westernizing reforms to the political system. |  | 150 |
| 12958896936 | Young Turks | Movement of Turkish military and civilian elites that developed ca. 1900, eventually bringing down the Ottoman Empire |  | 151 |
| 12958896937 | Apartheid | Afrikaans term for the system that developed in South Africa of strictly limiting the social and political integration of whites and blacks. |  | 152 |
| 12958896938 | Cash crop agriculture | Agricultural production, often on a large scale, of crops for sale in the market, rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves. |  | 153 |
| 12958896939 | Cultivation System | System of forced labor used in the Netherlands East Indies in the nineteenth century; peasants were required to cultivate at least 20 percent of their land in cash crops such as sugar or coffee for sale at low and fixed prices to government contractors, who then earned enormous profits from further sale of the crops. |  | 154 |
| 12958896940 | Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858 | Massive uprising of much of India against British rule; also called the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny from the fact that the rebellion first broke out among Indian troops in British employ. |  | 155 |
| 12958896941 | Scramble for Africa | Name used for the process of the European countries' partition of the continent of Africa between themselves in the period 1875-1900. |  | 156 |
