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| 161882848 | business cycle | -Recurrent swings from economic hard times to recovery and growth, then back to hard times and a repetition of the sequence | 0 | |
| 161882849 | Jacobins | -Radical republicans during the French Revolution, they were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793-1794 | 1 | |
| 161882850 | Crystal Palace | -Building erected in Hyde Park, London, for the Great Exhibition of 1851; made of iron and glass, like a gigantic greenhouse, it was a symbol of the industrial age | 2 | |
| 161882851 | Simón Bolívar | -The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led the military forces there and in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia | 3 | |
| 161882852 | sepoy | -A soldier in South Asia, especially in the service of the British | 4 | |
| 161882853 | Acheh Sultanate | -Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra; main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia; in the early 17th century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malaysia from Portugal in 1641 | 5 | |
| 161882854 | Josiah Wedgwood | -English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods | 6 | |
| 161882855 | George Washington | -Military commander of the American Revolution; he was the first elected president of the U.S. | 7 | |
| 161882856 | clipper ship | -Large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel, often American built, of the mid-to late 19th century; rigged w/ vast canvas sails hung from tall masts | 8 | |
| 161882857 | "legitimate trade" | -Exports from Africa in the 19th century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade | 9 | |
| 161882858 | Confederation of 1867 | -Negotiated union of the formerly separated colonial governments of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. This new dominion of Canada w/ a central government in Ottawa is seen as the beginning of the Canadian nation | 10 |
