5826138348 | Tokugawa Shogunate | shogun held all the power. | 0 | |
5826139048 | Silver drain | china taxes | 1 | |
5826140280 | Soft gold | Nickname for animal furs which were highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status. | 2 | |
5826140986 | Wahhabi islam | islamic movement led by muslim teologian abd al wahhab that advocated an austeve lifestyle and strict adherence to sharia (islamic law) PURIFICATION. | 3 | |
5826143449 | Newton | English scientist; drew together astronomical and physical observations of natural laws: principles of motion/ defined forces of gravity. | 4 | |
5826145267 | Voltaire | French philosopher who wrote against religious intolerance. | 5 | |
5826146328 | Galileo | astronomer and mathmetician who invented an improved telescope. | 6 | |
5826147315 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew french directory in 1799. Became emperor of french in 1804. Died in exile. | 7 | |
5826150440 | Nationalism | The loyalty of people to their common culture, traditions, ethnicity, geographic territory, and the idea of self-rule. | 8 | |
5826151640 | Trading post empire | Empire established by portuguese. Portuguese sought to control the commerce in the area, not control large areas of land. | 9 | |
5826153678 | Daimyo | Individuals controlling an area and samurai worked for them. | 10 | |
5826155096 | Samurai | A japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy. (leaders of the military emperor) <---- Signifigance | 11 | |
5826158362 | Shogun | A hereditary military dictator of Japan. (established in place of an emperor; fractioned imperial rule.) <---- Signifigance | 12 | |
5826160837 | Middle Passage | The part of the Atlantic circut involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the atlantic to the americas | 13 | |
5826162012 | Kaozheng | A notion of "researched based evidence" that occurred in china as a foil to Neo-Confucian orthodoxy. | 14 | |
5826163612 | Descartes | Established importance of skeptical review of all recieved wisdom; argued human reson could develop laws to explain the workings of nature. | 15 | |
5826168306 | Kant | German philosopher who argued that enlightenment was the ability to know something without another's guidance. (believed in freedom of the press as a means to exercise reason publicly). METAPHYSICAL! | 16 | |
5826169795 | Hobbes | Believed people by nature were greedy and prone to violent welfare. Believed in absolute monarch rule. wrote leviathan. | 17 | |
5826170844 | Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract". (people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.) | 18 | |
5826173960 | Rousseau | French man who believed human beings are naturally good, free and can rely on their instincts. Believed government should protect common good and be democracy. | 19 | |
5826175104 | Darwin | Biologist that developed theory of evolution of species. argued that all living species evolved into their present form to survive. | 20 | |
5826175908 | Marx | German philosopher who wrote the communist manifesto and Das Kapital | 21 | |
5826176654 | Popular sovereignty | People hold the final authority in all matters of government. | 22 | |
5826178096 | Bolivar | Leader of revolt of south american colonies against spanish rule. | 23 | |
5826178589 | Estates General | French Represenative assembly caled into session to address pressing provlems caused by the french revolution. 3 estates: Clergy, nobility and the commoners. | 24 | |
5826180329 | Feminist movement | Sought legal and democratic gains for women such as equal access to education, right to vote, and professions in workplace. | 25 | |
5826182232 | Gens de couleur Libres | "free people of color" term used to describe freed slaves and people of mixed racial background in saint domingue. (Haitian Revolution) | 26 | |
5826187289 | Maroons | Slaves who ran away from their masters. | 27 | |
5826187290 | Abolition | The legal prohibition and ending of slavery. | 28 | |
5826187883 | Russian Decembrist revolt | Political revolt in Russia in 1825; led by middle-level army officers who advocated reforms; put own by Tsar Nicholas. | 29 | |
5826189247 | Zionist Movement | Jews allowed in palistine | 30 |
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