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160274966 | Cold War | non shooting conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S. (and all its allies); secondary conflicts arise because of this | 0 | |
160274967 | Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who, in 1492, crossed the Atlantic and discovered the Americas for Spain | 1 | |
160274968 | Commercial Revolution | dramatic change in economy of Europe at end of Middle Ages; increase in towns and trade, use of banks and credit and est. of guilds to regulate trade and price | 2 | |
160274969 | Commonwealth of Independent States | Nation created after breakup of the Soviet Union; several E. Europe states and Russia | 3 | |
160274970 | Communist Revolution | political revolution in Russia starting in 1917; the Bolsheviks overthrew Czar Nicholas II and created a socialist system based upon views of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin (Bolshevik revolution) | 4 | |
160274971 | Computer Revolution | 1980's, PC's enter into homes across the world; by 1990', the PC was in the majority of Industrialized nations' homes | 5 | |
160274972 | Confucianism | lived in China during the Zhou dynasty while there was mass confusion and degrading moral standards; natural social order; 5 relationships | 6 | |
160274973 | Confucius | lived around 600 BCE; wrote "The Analects"; 5 relationships; aka Kong Fu Zi | 7 | |
160274974 | Congress of Vienna | meeting of Euro. political leaders to reestablish former territorial borders after the fall of Napoleon; 1814-1815; dominated by Prince Metternich of Austria-Hungary | 8 | |
160274975 | Constantine | Roman emperor between 306-337; issued the "Edich of Milan" outlawing the persecution of Christians; founded Constantinople | 9 | |
160274976 | Containment | Cold War policy that said Communism was to be contained to where it already influenced; proposed by Harry S. Truman | 10 | |
160274977 | Nicholaus Copernicus | Polish astronomer who wrote "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" proposing a heliocentric system; laid foundations for modern astronomy | 11 | |
160274978 | Coup d'etat | act of overthrowing a government, usually by violent means | 12 | |
160274979 | Creoles | Latin American born Spanish gentry; owned most land but treated as second-class citizens and denied political rights | 13 | |
160274980 | Oliver Cromwell | leader of the English Revolution that disposed of monarchs for a short time for a republic; leader of Republic until monarchs were reestablished in 1660 | 14 |