6070952205 | Abolish | formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution) | 0 | |
6070952206 | Absolute monarch | Rule by one person whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom | 1 | |
6070952207 | American Revolution | a political upheaval during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy | 2 | |
6070952208 | Assembly line | a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled | 3 | |
6070952209 | Berlin Conference 1884 | a meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization | 4 | |
6070952210 | Bloody Sunday | when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched in Russia | 5 | |
6070952211 | Boer Wars | a war in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and Orange Free State | 6 | |
6070952212 | Boxer Rebellions | when the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising against the spread of Western and Japanese influence | 7 | |
6070952213 | British East India Company | a private company granted a trade monopoly with the East Indies by Queen Elizabeth I | 8 | |
6070952214 | Capital | wealth in the form of money or other assets owned for a particular purpose | 9 | |
6070952215 | Capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state | 10 | |
6070952216 | Capitulations | the action of surrendering or ceasing to resist an opponent or demand | 11 | |
6070952217 | Cartel | an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition | 12 | |
6070952218 | Cecil Rhodes | a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony | 13 | |
6070952219 | Charles Darwin | British naturalist who revolutionized the study of biology with his theory of evolution based on natural selection | 14 | |
6070952220 | Commercial | concerned with or engaged in commerce/ making or intended to make a profit | 15 | |
6070952221 | Communism | Advocates class war to lead to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs | 16 | |
6070952222 | Communist Manifesto | an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | 17 | |
6070952223 | Congress of Vienna | a conference to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe after the French and Napoleonic Wars | 18 | |
6070952224 | Constitution | a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed | 19 | |
6070952225 | Corporation | a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law | 20 | |
6070952226 | Declaration of Independence | the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain | 21 | |
6070952227 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights | 22 | |
6070952228 | Doctrine | 23 | ||
6070952229 | Domestic | 24 | ||
6070952230 | Emancipation | the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation | 25 | |
6070952231 | Emancipation of Serfs | manifesto issued by the Russian emperor Alexander II that accompanied 17 legislative acts that freed the serfs | 26 | |
6070952232 | Empress Cixi | dowager empress of China who was hostile to foreign influences in China and supported the Boxer Rebellion | 27 | |
6070952233 | Enclosure | an area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier | 28 | |
6070952234 | Enlightenment | a European intellectual movement emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition | 29 | |
6070952235 | Estates-general | the legislative body in France, representing the three estates of the realm (i.e., the clergy, the nobility, and the commons) | 30 | |
6070952236 | Execution of Louis XVI | by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution | 31 | |
6070952237 | Factory | a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine | 32 | |
6070952238 | Frederich Engels | a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman who founded Marxist theory together with Marx | 33 | |
6070952239 | Free market | an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses | 34 | |
6070952240 | Free trade | international trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions | 35 | |
6070952241 | Immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country | 36 | |
6070952242 | Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force | 37 | |
6070952243 | Indemnity | security or protection against a loss or other financial burden | 38 | |
6070952244 | Indian National Congress | A political party in India established in the late nineteenth century after India achieved independence from Britain | 39 | |
6070952245 | Industrial Revolution | rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain brought about by the introduction of machinery | 40 | |
6070952246 | Intolerable Acts | a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party | 41 | |
6070952247 | Karl Marx | a philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism | 42 | |
6070952248 | Labor union | an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests | 43 | |
6070952249 | Laissez-faire | a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering, government not interfering with market | 44 | |
6070952250 | Leisure | a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering | 45 | |
6070952251 | Mahmut II | 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839 | 46 | |
6070952252 | Marxism | political and economic theories, later developed to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism | 47 | |
6070952253 | Maxim Guns | the first fully automatic water-cooled machine gun, designed in Britain in 1884 and used especially in World War I | 48 | |
6070952254 | Meiji Restoration | a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji | 49 | |
6070952255 | Miguel Hidalgo | Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who is called the father of Mexican independence | 50 | |
6070952256 | Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service | 51 | |
6070952257 | Monroe Doctrine | a US policy (Monroe), any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a hostile act against the US | 52 | |
6070952258 | Muhammed Ali | Albanian soldier (service of Turkey), made viceroy of Egypt, took control away from the Ottomans and established Egypt as a state | 53 | |
6070952259 | Muslim League | a political party established during the early years of the 20th century in the British Indian Empire | 54 | |
6070952260 | Napoleon | French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804-15 | 55 | |
6070952261 | Nationalism | an extreme form of patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts, especially marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries | 56 | |
6070952262 | Nation-state | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent | 57 | |
6070952263 | Natural resources | materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature/ can be used for economic gain | 58 | |
6070952264 | Open Door Policy | policy proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis | 59 | |
6070952265 | Opium Wars | a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 | 60 | |
6070952266 | Otto von Bismarck | a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 | 61 | |
6070952267 | Panama Canal | Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, built from 1904-1914 | 62 | |
6070952268 | Raj | British sovereignty in India | 63 | |
6070952269 | Reign of Terror | a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed during the French Revolution | 64 | |
6070952270 | Revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system | 65 | |
6070952271 | Rudyard Kipling | English author of novels and poetry who was born in India | 66 | |
6070952272 | Rural | in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town | 67 | |
6070952273 | Russification | cultural assimilation where non-Russian communities, voluntarily or not, give up their culture and language in favor of Russia's | 68 | |
6070952274 | Russ-Japanese War | 904-1905 between Russia and Japan over rival territorial claims (Japan became a world power and Roosevelt made the treaty) | 69 | |
6070952275 | Scramble for Africa | invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by Europe during the period of New Imperialism | 70 | |
6070952276 | Sepoy Mutiny (1857) | a revolt resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown | 71 | |
6070952277 | Seven Years War | between the German kingdom of Prussia + Britain, Vs Austria, France, and Russia | 72 | |
6070952278 | Sino-Japanese War | between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea | 73 | |
6070952279 | Social class | a division of a society based on social and economic status | 74 | |
6070952280 | Social Darwinism | the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals | 75 | |
6070952281 | Socialism | advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community | 76 | |
6070952282 | Spanish American War | A war between Spain and the United States that began as an intervention on behalf of Cuba. | 77 | |
6070952283 | Spheres of Influence | a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority | 78 | |
6070952284 | State Duma of Russia | the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia's legislature | 79 | |
6070952285 | Steam Engine | an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power | 80 | |
6070952286 | Suez Canal | a sea-level canal in NE Egypt, crossing the Isthmus of Suez and linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea | 81 | |
6070952287 | Suffrage | right to vote | 82 | |
6070952288 | Taiping Rebellion | a massive rebellion or civil war in China against the Qing dynasty | 83 | |
6070952289 | The Diet of Japan | Japan's bicameral legislature, composed of a lower house and an upper house, elected under parallel voting systems | 84 | |
6070952290 | The Jewel in the Crown | the most valuable or successful part of something | 85 | |
6070952291 | Trade union | labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts | 86 | |
6070952292 | Unequal Treaties | a series of treaties signed with Western powers by Qing dynasty China and late Tokugawa Japan after suffering military defeat | 87 | |
6070952293 | Universal suffrage | the extension of voting rights to all citizens without restrictions based on sex, race, religious belief, wealth or social status | 88 | |
6070952294 | Urbanization | the process of making an area more urban | 89 | |
6070952295 | Utopia | an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect | 90 | |
6070952296 | Wage labor | Relationship where the worker sells his labor power under a formal or informal employment contract | 91 | |
6070952297 | Wealth of Nations | magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith | 92 | |
6070952298 | White Man's Burden | the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies | 93 | |
6070952299 | Witte Industrialization Program | Count Sergei Iul'evich Witte oversaw Russia's transition economy, pushed for greater exports, ambitious industrialization, and large foreign loans to modernize Russia and make it competitive | 94 | |
6070952300 | Young Turks | members of a revolutionary party (Ottoman) who carried out the revolution of 1908 and deposed the sultan Abdul Hamid II | 95 |
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