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4313533250GuanoBird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century.0
4313533251Suez CanalCanal constructed by Egypt across the Isthmus of Suez in 1869.1
4313533252CommunismAn economic system in which the state controls the means of production.2
4313533253LiberalismAn Enlightenment philosophy that favored civil rights, the protection of private property, and representative government.3
4313533254QueuA long ponytail that Chinese men were forced to wear in order to distinguish them from Manchus4
4313533255Domestic SystemA manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting5
4313533256MaorisA member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 C.E.6
4313533257Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of The CitizenA statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution.7
4313533258Declaration Of IndependenceA document modeled after the political philosophies of John Locke. It altered the natural rights identified by John Locke to include "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."8
4313533259Self-Strengthening MovementA late nineteenth-century movement in which the Chinese modernized their army and encouraged western investment in factories and railways9
4313533260Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code)Collection of laws that standard¬ized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte.10
4313533261Spanish-American WarConflict between the United States and Spain that began the rise of the United States as a world power.11
4313533262JacobinsExtreme radicals during the French revolution12
4313533263RomanticismA literary and artistic movement in nineteenth-century Europe; emphasized emotion over reason.13
4313533264Declaration Of The Rights Of Women And Of The FemaleA statement of the rights of women written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.14
4313533265Theory Of RelativityIdea which argued that time and space are relative to one another.15
4313533266Theory Of Natural SelectionIdea, first proposed by Charles Darwin, that species survive due to favorable characteristics16
4313533267BourgeoisieIn France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marx¬ist theory, a term referring to factory owners.17
4313533268Spanish Civil WarA conflict from 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces. (1898)18
4313533269Economic ImperialismControl of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation.19
4313533270Revolutions Of 1848Democratic and nationalis¬tic revolutions, most of them unsuccessful, that swept through Europe.20
4313533271Spheres Of InfluenceDivisions of a country in which a particular foreign nation enjoys economic privileges.21
4313533272ProletarianIn Marxist theory, the class of workers in an industrial society22
4313533273ConservatismIn nineteenth-century Europe, a movement that supported monarchies, aristocracies, and state-established churches23
4313533274Factors Of ProductionLand, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship, which existed in Britain which allowed it to lead in the Industrial Revolution24
4313533275ZaibatsuLarge industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century25
4313533276ConscriptionMilitary draft26
4313533277Tanzimet ReformsNineteenth century reforms by Ottoman rulers designed to make government and military more efficient27
4313533278Monroe DoctrinePolicy issued by the United States in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers.28
4313533279Indian National CongressPolitical party that became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement.29
4313533280Congress Of ViennaRestored legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and to create a balance of power.30
4313533281Boxer RebellionRevolt against foreign residents of China31
4313533282Sepoy RebellionRevolt of Indian soldiers against the British; caused by a military practice in violation of the Muslim and Hindu faiths.(1857)32
4313533283Natural RightsRights that belong to every person and that no government may take away.33
4313533284Revolution Of 1905Strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia; prompted by shortages of food and by Russia's loss to Japan in 1905.34
4313533285EntrepreneurshipThe ability to combine the fac¬tors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production.35
4313533286Social DarwinismThe application of Darwin's philosophy of natural selection to human society36
4313533287Separation Of PowersThe division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.37
4313533288EstatesThe divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France38
4313533289ImperialismThe establishment of colonial empires.39
4313533290Enclosure MovementThe fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution.40
4313533291Bill Of RightsThe first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States41
4313533292Qing DynastyThe Manchurian invaders who ruled China from 1644 to the early 1900s42
4313533293Berlin ConferenceThe meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them43
4313533294CapitalThe money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization44
4313533295FeminismThe movement to achieve women's rights.45
4313533296Great TrekSlaveholding Boers, who in 1834, left the Cape Colony and moved to the interior of Africa46
4313533297Young TurksSociety founded in 1889 in the Otto¬man Empire; its goal was to restore the constitu¬tion of 1876 and to reform the empire.47
4313533298BoersSouth Africans of Dutch descent.48
4313533299SepoysSouth Asian soldiers who served in the Brit¬ish army in India.49
4313533300Reign Of TerrorThe period of the most extreme violence during the French Revolution50
4313533301Manifest DestinyThe policy in the U.S. that led to its expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific51
4313533302Meiji RestorationThe restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokogawa Shogunate52
4313533303ExtraterritorialityThe right of foreigners to live under the laws of their home country rather than those of the host country.53
4313533304Industrial RevolutionThe transition between the domestic system of manufacturing and the mechanization of production in a factory setting54
4313533305Treaty Of NankingTreaty ending the' Opium War that ceded Hong Kong to the British. (1842)55
4313533306DumaThe Russian parliament56
4313533307RajThe Sanskrit name for the British government in India57
4313533308Gran ColumbiaThe temporary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar58
4313533309Estates-GeneralThe traditional legislative body of France59
4313533310PogromViolence against Jews in tsarist Russia.60
4313533311Opium WarWar between Great Britain and China began with the Qing dynasty's refusal to allow continued opium importation into China; British victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking.(1839-1842)61
4313533312Sino-Japanese WarWar between Japan and China, in 1895, over control over Korea62
4313533313Russo-Japanese WarWar between Russia and Japan over Manchurian territory; resulted in the degeat of Russia by the Japanese Navy63
4313533314Boer WarWar between the Brit¬ish and the Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa; resulted in British victory .(1899-1902)64
4313533315RadicalismWestern European political philosophy during the nineteenth century; advocated democracy and reforms favoring lower classes.65

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