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| 354062509 | Treaty of Paris (1763) | Ended French and Indian War, France lost Canada, land east of the Mississippi, to British, New Orleans and west of Mississippi to Spain | |
| 354062510 | Poor Law | 1601, provided jobs & support for the needy, sick, insane, and aged | |
| 354062511 | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | Newton's work on how the physical world worked, such as universal gravitation(1686) | |
| 354062512 | Peace of Tilsit | An agreement between czar Alexander I and Napolean, in which France and Russia became allies. | |
| 354062513 | Existentialism | a philosophical movement that dominated the 20th century. The idea that humans exist because their actions give meaning to themselves. | |
| 354062514 | Youth Rebellion | A series of rebellious teens that protested the ideas during the Vietnam War | |
| 354062515 | Salt II | A second treaty between USSR and US to limit nuclear weapons | |
| 354062516 | Salt I | A first treaty between USSR and US to limit nuclear weapons | |
| 354062517 | Zionism | A policy which made Palestine a national homeland for Jews (established in 1948) | |
| 354062518 | Sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. | |
| 354062519 | Intifada | an uprising by Palestinian Arabs against Israel in the late 1980s | |
| 354062520 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression of communism. | |
| 354062521 | Skepticism | An idea that nothing is certain | |
| 354062522 | Philosophes | Thinkers of the Enlightment. | |
| 354062523 | The Spirit of the Laws | (1748) Montesquieu, ideas about separation of powers. | |
| 354062524 | Peace of Utrecht | A treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession | |
| 354062525 | Fronde | (1648-1653)Series of civil of wars in France during the reign of Louis XIII | |
| 354062526 | Levellers | radical religious revolutionaries-sought social and political reforms, a more equal society. | |
| 354062527 | Papacy | Government of the Roman Catholic Church, which the Pope is the head | |
| 354062528 | Szlachta | Polish nobility who until 1768 possessed the right of life or death over their serfs |