4043059985 | sino-japanese war | war in which japan beat its much larger asian neighbor | 0 | |
4043064278 | russo-japanese war | war in which japan beat its much larger eurasian neighbor | 1 | |
4043070734 | enlightenment | 18th century movement advocating the use of reason | 2 | |
4043076341 | french and indian war | british and fench war in north america | 3 | |
4043077806 | the terror | robespierre's attempt to crush all opposition to the revolution | 4 | |
4043089995 | toussaint l'ouverture | leader of haitian revolution | 5 | |
4043092256 | haitian revolution | first successful uprising of slaves in new world | 6 | |
4043097377 | congress of vienna | conservative reaction to the french revolution | 7 | |
4043097378 | steam engine | literally powered the early industrial revolution | 8 | |
4043099545 | adam smith | scottish economist who first described modern capitalism | 9 | |
4043099546 | wealth of nations | by adam smith, denounced merchantilism, promoted free markets | 10 | |
4043101855 | the communist manifesto | seminal work of marx and engel | 11 | |
4043103701 | laissez faire | doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | 12 | |
4043103702 | urbanization | social process whereby cities grow and population density increases | 13 | |
4043105214 | cult of domesticity | "new" late 19th century ideal of womenhood | 14 | |
4043106717 | simon bolivar | led nemerous south american nations to independance | 15 | |
4043106718 | abolitionism | the movement to end slavery | 16 | |
4043108555 | muhammad ali | egyptian leader who broke from the ottoman empire | 17 | |
4043108556 | tanzimats | "restructuring" reforms by the 19th-c. ottoman rulers | 18 | |
4043109990 | young turks | movement of young ottoman intellectuals to institute liberal reforms | 19 | |
4043111498 | extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be judged by the laws of their own nation | 20 | |
4043111499 | opium wars | trade conflict that led to unequal treaties favoring the british | 21 | |
4043113188 | boxar rebellion | uprising in china aimed at ending foreign influence | 22 | |
4043114934 | taipping rebellion | largest rebelion in chinese history, led by chinese christians | 23 | |
4043114935 | cixi | chinese empres dowager in the last days of the q'ing | 24 | |
4043114936 | zulu | a people of modern south africa united be king shaka in 1818 | 25 | |
4043116757 | east indian companies | european corporations formed to develop colonial trade | 26 | |
4043116758 | sepoy rebelions | 1857 revolt of indian soldiers against practices that violated religious customs | 27 | |
4043118536 | indentured servants | colonists receiving free passage to n.a. in exchange for 7 years of work | 28 | |
4043118537 | nationalism | love of a country and wilingness to sacrifice for it | 29 | |
4043120111 | conservatism | 19th century political belief favoring tradition and the status quo | 30 | |
4043121045 | liberism | beliefs politically aligned to enlightenment ideas | 31 | |
4043124366 | bessemer process | industrial technique for making stronger steel by removing impurities | 32 | |
4043126148 | spheres of influence | inter-european agreement to co-exist in non-western countries during imperialism | 33 | |
4043126149 | sufferage | the right to vote | 34 | |
4043128120 | collective barganing | tactic used by labor unions to achieve their goals | 35 | |
4043129220 | social darwinism | the application of ideas about evolution to human societies | 36 | |
4043131171 | the white man's burden | kipling's poem to the united states urging imperialistic action | 37 | |
4043131172 | germany | first unified as a nation in 1870 | 38 | |
4043132735 | meiji restoration | japan's political path to centralization, industrialization, and imperialism | 39 | |
4043136091 | king leopold II | belgian leader who brutally exploited the congo | 40 | |
4043138474 | scramble for africa | sudden 19th c. wave of conquests in africa by european powers | 41 | |
4043138475 | suez canal | links the red sea with the mediterranean, british route to india | 42 | |
4043140194 | berlin conference | 1885 meeting at which european nations discussed colonization of africa | 43 | |
4043140195 | panama canal | links atlantic to the pacific through central america, us-built | 44 | |
4043141521 | republic | political system in which power derives from the people | 45 | |
4043141522 | textiles | first industry in which the process of industrialization took hold | 46 | |
4043142994 | great britian | nation where the industrial revolution began | 47 | |
4043144246 | boers | dutch colonists who settled south africa | 48 | |
4043144247 | boer war | war between the british and dutch in south africa | 49 | |
4043147392 | matthew perry | american commodore who opened japan to trade | 50 | |
4043147393 | serfdom | labor system abolished in russia in 1861 | 51 | |
4043148368 | enclosure | movement by large landowners to increased agricultural productivity | 52 | |
4043148369 | john locke | enlightenment writer who influenced thomas jefferson | 53 | |
4043149767 | the leviathan | thomas hobbes' book about the "ideal" social contract | 54 | |
4043149768 | slavery | the us ended this institution in 1864 | 55 | |
4043149769 | india | nation whose textile industry was destroyed by british imperialism | 56 | |
4043152100 | mohandas k gandhi | leader of the indian independance movement | 57 | |
4043158040 | mohammad al jinna | first prime minster of pakisatan | 58 | |
4043158041 | mass production | allowed for the manufacture of cheap consumer goods | 59 |
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