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| 52530295 | Divine right of Kings | the belief that the authority of kings comes directly from God | 0 | |
| 52530296 | Creole | a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages | 1 | |
| 52530297 | Mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | 2 | |
| 52530298 | Mulattos | persons of mixed european and african ancestry | 3 | |
| 52530299 | Thomas Hobbes | English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679) | 4 | |
| 52530300 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) | 5 | |
| 52530301 | Social COntract | an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society | 6 | |
| 52530302 | Charles I | king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor | 7 | |
| 52530303 | Oliver Cromwell | English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) | 8 | |
| 52530304 | Philosophies | rational investigations of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct | 9 | |
| 52530305 | Glorious revolution | the revolution against James II | 10 | |
| 52530306 | Condorcet | Wrote The Progress of the Human Mind. He identified humans will go through 10 stages of progress. They were about to enter the tenth where humans will be perfect in understanding. | 11 | |
| 52530307 | Bourgeoisie | the social class between the lower and upper classes | 12 | |
| 52530308 | Estates General | assembly of the estates of all France | 13 | |
| 52530309 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General, the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. (p. 585) | 14 | |
| 52530310 | Louis XVI | king of France from 1774 to 1792 | 15 | |
| 52530311 | BAstille | a jail (literally, a French jail) | 16 | |
| 52530312 | JAcobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794. | 17 | |
| 52530313 | The reign of terror | This marks a one year period in which Robespierre was the head of the Revolution. During this period, approx. 40,000 were killed and 300,000 jailed for different crimes against the Revolution. Robespierre's men were known as the Committee of Public Safety. Comprised of the political alliance between the Mountain and the sans-culottes. This meant that his committee typically appealed to the urban poor. During this period, France employed a draft system to gain an army and to finish off the battles of the first coalition. If men were resistant, they were killed and anyone agreeing or helping them was jailed. The period ended when Robespierre and his men were executed by other men in the government that feared Robespierre becoming more powerful and more of a tyrant. | 18 | |
| 52530314 | Napoleon | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | 19 | |
| 52530315 | Declaration of rights of man | Stated that under the law, everyone is equal | 20 | |
| 52530316 | Congress of Vienna | conservative, reactionary meeting, led by prince metternich, restore europe to prerevolution time | 21 | |
| 52530317 | Voodoo | a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti) | 22 | |
| 52530318 | maroon | a person who is stranded (as on an island) | 23 | |
| 52530319 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | was an important leader of the Haïtian Revolution and the first leader of a free Haiti. In a long struggle again the institution of slavery, he led the blacks to victory over the whites and free coloreds and secured native control over the colony in 1797, calling himself a dictator. | 24 | |
| 52530320 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 25 | |
| 52530321 | Miguel hidalgo | Mexican priest who led peasants in call for independence and improved conditions | 26 | |
| 52530322 | Jose De Francia | A leader in france(1688-1689) | 27 | |
| 52530323 | COnstitutional monarchy | A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. | 28 | |
| 52530324 | Revolution | the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | 29 | |
| 52530325 | DEMOCRACY | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 30 | |
| 52530326 | Aristocracy | the most powerful members of a society | 31 | |
| 52530327 | Secular | concerning those not members of the clergy | 32 | |
| 52530328 | Diplomatic | able to take a broad view of negotiations between states | 33 | |
| 52530329 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 34 | |
| 52530330 | FEudalism | the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C | 35 | |
| 52530331 | enclosure acts | commons are fenced off, people look for jobs in the city | 36 | |
| 52530332 | Spinning jenny | This machine played an important role in the mechanization of textile production. Like the spinning wheel, it may be operated by a treadle or by hand. But, unlike the spinning wheel, it can spin more than one yarn at a time. The idea for multiple-yarn spinning was conceived about 1764 by James Hargreaves, an English weaver. In 1770, he patented a machine that could spin 16 yarns at a time. (643, 727) | 37 | |
| 52530333 | James Hargreaves | English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) | 38 | |
| 52530334 | Richard Arkwright | English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame, a machine that, with minimal human supervision, could spin several threads at once. (604) | 39 | |
| 52530335 | Michael Faraday | the English physicist nd chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867) | 40 | |
| 60649792 | Thomas Edison | United States inventor | 41 | |
| 60649793 | Peterloo Massacre | MAssacre in peterloo. | 42 | |
| 60649794 | Reform Bill, 1832 | law dared property requirements so that well to so men in the middle classdemanded reforms in pariliament in elections including suffrage for all men | 43 | |
| 60649795 | suffrage | a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution | 44 | |
| 60649796 | Chartist Movement | Movement of chartists i suppose. | 45 | |
| 60649797 | Karl mArx | founder of modern communism | 46 | |
| 60649798 | proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | 47 | |
| 60649799 | Otto Van Bismarck | Prime Minister of Prussia (largest state in Northern Germany); wanted a greater, unified Germany (smaller Southern states to join Prussia; preferred "iron and blood" to diplomacy | 48 | |
| 60649800 | Max Weber | German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920) | 49 | |
| 60649801 | garden city concept | one of the many attempts to reduce and solve social problems during the Industrialization Period | 50 | |
| 60649802 | imperialism | any instance of aggressive extension of authority | 51 | |
| 60649803 | nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 52 | |
| 60649804 | industrialism | an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship | 53 | |
| 60649805 | eugenics | the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) | 54 | |
| 60649806 | ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | 55 | |
| 60649807 | clemens von metternich | a fellow durig the industrial revolutions | 56 | |
| 60649808 | Young Ireland | social nationalist movement in ireland that wanted independence | 57 | |
| 60649809 | Giuseppi mazzini | creator of the idea "Young Italy"; along with a friend, chased the pope out of Rome and founded the Republic of Rome, which lasted less than a day | 58 | |
| 60649810 | Victor emannuel 2 | some random guy | 59 | |
| 60649811 | Giuseppe Garibaldi | Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882) | 60 | |
| 60649812 | Otto Von bismarck | German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898) | 61 | |
| 60649813 | William I of Prussia | sort of a stupid ruler, and only succeeds because of Otto von Bismarck, became emperor William I of Germany | 62 | |
| 60649814 | Zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine | 63 | |
| 60649815 | Alfred Dreyfus | another random fellow. | 64 | |
| 60649816 | Theodor Herzl | this site is crap and doesnt work wit autocomplete. | 65 | |
| 60649817 | social darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | 66 | |
| 60649818 | white man's burden | the burden of the white man. | 67 | |
| 60649819 | urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 68 | |
| 60649820 | plantation system | A system of agricultural production based on large-scale land ownership and the exploitation of labor and the environment. This system focused on the production of cash crops and utilized slave labor. | 69 | |
| 60649821 | putting out system | system of merchant-capitalists "putting out" raw materials to cottage workers for processing and payment that was fully developed in England | 70 | |
| 60649822 | suez canal | i canal locatedi n western Africa. Now there is a walmart where thsi canal was. | 71 | |
| 60649823 | crimean war | a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia | 72 | |
| 60649824 | opium wars | wars in asia for possession of opium plants. | 73 | |
| 60649825 | Mass Production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) | 74 | |
| 60649826 | Enclosure Movement | fencing in common land | 75 | |
| 60649827 | Factory system | a method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building | 76 | |
| 60649828 | unions | organizations of workers who bargain with employers as a group | 77 | |
| 60649829 | Universal suffrage | the right of all adults to vote for their representatives | 78 | |
| 60649830 | Communist manifesto | a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views | 79 | |
| 60649831 | extraterritorality | foreigners enjoyed this as a result of the Unequal Treaties System | 80 | |
| 60649832 | entrepeneurship | A way of thinking, reasoning, and acting that is oportunity based, holistic in approach, and leadership balanced | 81 | |
| 60649833 | taiping rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. (p. 687) | 82 | |
| 60649834 | boers | Dutch settlers in south Africa | 83 | |
| 60649835 | shaka zulu | Around 1816 used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state. The Zulu land became part of British-controlled land in 1887. | 84 | |
| 60649836 | mfecane | Wars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa. | 85 | |
| 60649837 | Muhammad Ali | United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942) | 86 | |
| 60649838 | Uthman dan fodio | founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic reformer | 87 | |
| 60649839 | al-Hajj umar | random little rascal. who cares about him hes just a dead guy. | 88 | |
| 60649840 | Samori toure | someone involved in world history somehow. | 89 | |
| 60649841 | Muhammad ahmad the mahdi | religious leader in Sudan who proclaimed himself the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith in 1881 | 90 | |
| 60649842 | David livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) | 91 | |
| 60649843 | Maji Maji Revolt | sometimes called the Maji Maji War, was a violent African resistance to colonial rule in the German colony of Tanganyika, an uprising by several African indigenous communities in German East Africa against the German rule in response to a German policy designed to force African peoples to grow cotton for export, lasting from 1905 to 1907 | 92 | |
| 60649844 | nabob | a word in some foreign language that i do not and will not ever know. | 93 | |
| 60649845 | sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. User-contributed | 94 | |
| 60649846 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. (See also Yamagata Aritomo.) (p. 694) User-contributed | 95 | |
| 60649847 | Marxism | the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded noun | 96 | |
| 60649848 | Liberalism | an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard noun | 97 | |
| 60649849 | Conservatism | a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes noun | 98 | |
| 60649850 | Scramble for africa | When african natives were fighting to keep possession of their land. | 99 | |
| 60649851 | Sepoy Mutiny | none of the words i am looking up even work on autodefine. | 100 | |
| 60649852 | Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country. User-contributed | 101 | |
| 60649853 | Empress CiXi | Ruled 1861-1908 1) Hsien Feng's favorite "lady friend" because she had a son-and heir to the throne 2) When the Emperor died in 1861 Cixi was given the rank of Empress Dowager 3) Cixi's son (Age 5) was the new Emperor (he grew up, got married, and died of smallpox. His wife was pregnant so she would be the new Empress Dowager. Cixi got Tongzhi's wife to commit suicide so she could rule longer. ) Cixi named her four year old nephew Guangxu the new Emperor. Cixi would rule for him until he is old enough. Cixi loved to spend money on luxury items (rebuilt plus added to summer palace after it was destroyed in 1860. Also built marble boat instead of financing navy. Her role in foreign affairs combined with discontent and rebellion lead to downfall. User-contributed | 102 | |
| 60649854 | Socialism | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. User-contributed | 103 | |
| 60649855 | Open Door Policy | A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. User-contributed | 104 | |
| 60649856 | Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa User-contributed | 105 | |
| 60649857 | Cecil Rhodes | British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa noun | 106 | |
| 60649858 | Economic Imperialism | independent but less developed nation that is controlled by private business interests rather than by other govts. User-contributed | 107 |
