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| 5865989281 | Age of Exploration | 15th-17th century, when European countries expanded and looked for trade routes to Asia, and consequently discovered and colonized the Americas. 19. | 0 | |
| 5866076417 | Slaughtered, pillaged, conquered, used/abused | Treatment of the Natives. 19. | 1 | |
| 5877127918 | Spread of Christianity, new social order, cultural blending, miscegenation, mita system, ~Forceful spreading of Christianity~ | Effects of Colonization. 19. | 2 | |
| 5877150203 | Encomienda system | An area of land given to a conquistador - conquistador could demand labor and tax from natives that lived there. 19. | 3 | |
| 5877157450 | Mercantalism | Economic system in which the colony exists for the benefit of the mother country, place to grow raw materials that the mother country could manufacture and sell to the colony. 19. | 4 | |
| 5877241135 | Slave trade | Practice that existed since ancient times, the practice of buying/stealing people to work as unpaid laborers and treated akin to animals or cattle. 20. | 5 | |
| 5877267152 | Millions of deaths, 11 million slaves reaching America, African economy collapsed but some kingdoms prospered, world wide trade, commercial revolution, capitalism, no more guilds, European inflation | Effects of Slave Trade. 20. | 6 | |
| 5877282276 | Arab Slave Trade | Countries within Africa or Asia would sell or capture African people and sell them to nations in Africa or Asia, household servants. 20. | 7 | |
| 5877296335 | Atlantic Slave Trade | Counties would sell/steal people to European traders, slaves would be taken across to the Americas through the Middle Passage, sold to slave owners in Caribbean, Brazil, and the USA, household servants and plantation workers. 20. | 8 | |
| 5877327648 | Catherine the Great | Tsar of Russia 1729-1796, "enlightened despot", absolutist ruler, grew closer to the West, Westernization in Russian culture, expanded into the Crimea, Siberia, and part of Poland. ~Russia became an empire~. 21. | 9 | |
| 5877365845 | The Ottomans | Turkish empire from Central Asia, took hold in Asia Minor/Anatolia/Turkey but ~expanded to be the largest empire in centuries~, ruled by a sultan, divan council, janissaries, economy based on expansion, warrior aristocracy, fell due to the inability to conquer more, corrupt officers, bad janissaries, shift of trade to the Atlantic. 22. | 10 | |
| 5877390748 | Zheng He | Chinese explorer who sailed as far as Africa, lead several expeditions with hundreds of thousands of men and dozens of ships, "favorable balance of trade" in China, all destroyed after he died and a new emperor took control. 23. | 11 | |
| 5877435886 | Agricultural Revolution | The introduction of new farming techniques into farming, such as Jethrow Tall's seed drill, Siras McCormick's reaper, Charles Townsend's crop rotation, and new breeds (Robert Bakewell), enclosure acts (laws which closed off fields and provided more land for farming). 24. | 12 | |
| 5877449845 | Industrial Revolution AKA THE FIRES OF INDUSTRY | Growth of the factory system, from England, ~textiles~ (flying shuttle John Kay, spinning jenny James Hargreaves, steam engine James Watt), at first caused poverty, but then cities and big businesses and suburbs full of middle class people. 24. | 13 | |
| 5877469637 | Enlightenment/ Age of Reason | Time period in which laws of nature were applied to man, resulted in democracy, three branches of gov't, personal freedoms, innocent until proven guilty, eventually lead to women's rights and the emancipation of slaves. YOUR FAVORITE WORD EVER. 24. | 14 | |
| 5877508571 | Philosophes | Writers of the Enlightenment, believed in religious freedom, education, freedom of speech, and abolition. 24. | 15 | |
| 5877636449 | Adam Smith | Philosoph who fathered capitalism (economic system in which private owners decide what is produced) and laissez-faire (economy w/o government involvement). 24. | 16 | |
| 5877642229 | Capitalism | Economic system in which private owners decide what is produced, from Adam Smith. 24. | 17 | |
| 5877643205 | Montesquieu | Philosoph who proposed three branches of gov't and constitution. 24. | 18 | |
| 5877645437 | John Locke | Philosoph who believed in the right to life, liberty, and property (influenced Declaration of Independence). 24. | 19 | |
| 5877650398 | Darwin | Philosoph who conceptualized and studied evolution, ideas applied to society and used to justify poverty. 24. | 20 | |
| 5877653751 | Mendel | Scientist who studied genetics in plants. 24. | 21 | |
| 5877679712 | Curie | Scientist who studied radioactivity. 24. | 22 | |
| 5877705526 | Pasteur | Scientist who studied food preservation, vaccination, and fermentation. 24. | 23 | |
| 5877707780 | American Revolution | Revolution caused by Enlightenment ideas and restrictions from British forces, and "taxation without representation," resulted in an Enlightened gov't | 24 | |
| 5877712642 | Jefferson | Enlightened man who helped write the Declaration of Independence and became the third president. 24. | 25 | |
| 5879577285 | Paine | English-American revolutionary and political theorist, Common Sense. 24. | 26 | |
| 5879589633 | French Revolution | Caused by Enlightenment ideas, rigid social structure, unfair distribution of taxes, bad king, lost many wars, then four stages of revolution (liberal ie constitution written and manorial records taken, radical ie reign of terror and Robespierre, reactionary ie five man directory set up but was weak, and conservative ie Napoleon), ended in everything going back to how it was before. 24. | 27 | |
| 5879601304 | Louis XVI | King during the outbreak of the French revolution, decapitated during the reign of terror. 24. | 28 | |
| 5879618584 | Robespierre | Radical leader during the French Revolution, Committee of Public Safety, decapitated. 24. | 29 | |
| 5879710164 | Napoleon | First French dictator, introduced public schooling, equal taxes, law codes that promised equality, meritocracy, and religious toleration, then conquered lots of Europe. 24. | 30 | |
| 5879736431 | Realism | Art style that depicted real happenings and how life really is. 24. | 31 | |
| 5879742011 | Urbanization | The creation of more cities during the Industrial Revolution. 24. | 32 | |
| 5880310868 | Standard of Living | The basic commodities and comforts available to people. 24. | 33 | |
| 5880334777 | Mad Scramble | Period of time in the late 1800s when European countries imperialized Africa for its goods, resources, and the power having colonies provides, featured England, Russia, France, Spain, Belgium, and Portugal, among others. 25. | 34 | |
| 5899790748 | Infrastructure | Internal balance and security that gives strength and resiliency, in this case, to imperialistic and powerful nations. 25. | 35 | |
| 5899806958 | Manifest Destiny | The belief that Americans had the right to imperialize west to the Pacific Ocean. 25. | 36 | |
| 5899810128 | Sphere of influence | When part of a country is controlled economically by another power. 25. | 37 | |
| 5899876370 | Racism | The belief that one's race is superior to other people's. 25. | 38 | |
| 5899883526 | Extraterritoriality | Foreigners not following the rules of the country in which they are living. 25. | 39 | |
| 5899941770 | Revolutions, global culture, growth of European power, | Effects of the Second Age of Imperialism. 25. | 40 | |
| 5899978405 | Haitian Revolution | Revolution lead by slaves, resulted in gov't based on equality with a non white leader, first successful slave rebellion, ~influenced other rebellions~. 25. | 41 | |
| 5900519127 | L'Ouverture | Enslaved leader of the Haitian Revolution, brought about Haitian freedom. 25. | 42 | |
| 5900611528 | Bolivar | Wealthy Creole who lead the independence movement for Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador, Gran Colombia. 25. | 43 | |
| 5900633225 | San Martin | Creole independence leader in Argentina and Peru, fought over trade restrictions in Spain. 25. | 44 | |
| 5900755423 | Creole power, independent nations, slavery abolished, Native Americans still paid taxes and such, large provinces, caudillos (military leader who held dominion over local leaders), Catholic church power, | Effects of Latin American Independence. 25. | 45 | |
| 5900994325 | Opium War | War that began when England introduced the drug opium into China, China fought England after it destroyed a shipment of opium, lots of people addicted, ended in the Treaty of Nanking, more Chinese ports open, Britain got Hong Kong. 27. | 46 | |
| 5901148609 | Commissioner Lin | Commissioner of the Qing Dynasty during the Opium War, wrote a (mildly rude and pompous) letter to Queen Elizabeth to stop the sale of opium in China. 27. | 47 | |
| 5901181114 | Multiethnic | Used to describe the Russian Empire, a place where many ethnicities live, in the case of Russia it lead to division, ~nationalism~, and revolutions. 27. | 48 | |
| 5901226218 | Political corruption, cheating/bad Janissaries, refusal to reform, outside invaders, economic decline (power in the hands of Christian and Jewish merchants) | Reasons of Ottoman Decline. 27. | 49 | |
| 5901226219 | Social unrest, rebellions, bad leaders, failure of the civil service exam, economic decline, outside invaders, Opium War | Reasons of Ming Decline. 27. | 50 | |
| 5901378876 | State sponsored, forced, few factories, awful conditions in factories, industry owned by outside Europeans, | Traits of Russian Industrialization. 28. | 51 |
