Pre-Ap World History Flashcards

935301458	Enclosure	Large fields that were enclosed by large scale commerical farmers	0
244227220	Jethro Tull	Invented the seed drill, which improved agricultural efficiency	1
1002123162	Crop rotation	Changing what is planted on a piece of land to avoid depleting the soil	2
183886025	Flying Shuttle & Spinning Jenny	Sped up the weaving process	3
905623607	Water frame	Used water power to run multiple spinning wheels	4
126458775	Power loom	Improved production and quality	5
1256684	Cotton gin	Increased the American production of cotton to meet British demand	6
617211148	The need for cheap, convenient power	What caused the development of the steam engine?	7
134795515	James Watt	Improved the steam engine	8
257877170	Robert Fulton	Built the first steam powered ship	9
876207418	Clermont	First steam powered ship	10
627365796	Canals	Built to connect natural bodies of water	11
140547335	Turn Pikes	Private roads that companies built	12
81357426	George Stephenson	Built the first rail line in 1825	13
845417383	Liberpool and Manchester	The first rail line connected which two cities?	14
586608153	"The Rocket"	Stephenson's locomotive, built in 1829.	15
614091608	Railroads	Caused industries to grow and created jobs	16
514271619	Samuel Slater	Left England and opened a textile industry in America	17
611205974	Lowell, Massachusetts	The 1st mechanized textile factory was where?	18
458196838	The post civil war technology boom	What caused industry to rise?	19
34521241	Stock	Limited ownership rights for a company, sold to raise money	20
154361503	Corporation	A business owned by many stock holders who have limited ownership	21
281746715	Monopoly	When one company controls a product from raw material to completion	22
580597972	Cartel	An association of businesses that fixes prices, and sets quotas.	23
787698110	Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars	Disrupted Europe's economy	24
450361639	Belgium	First European city other than Britain to industrialize	25
701868961	British workers	Smuggled in machine plans in 1799	26
63315290	Germany	Becomes Europe's leading producer by 1871	27
951530821	France	Industrialized slowly, as agriculture remained strong	28
925027043	Wealth gap	Widened as non industrial countries fell behind	29
531815293	European nations and the U.S.	Began exploiting colonies for resources	30
182573041	Imperialism	Spread due to the need for raw materials and markets	31
886668074	Europe and the U.S.	Grew into economic power	32
900385707	Africa and Asia	Lagged economically	33
78331560	Increased democracy and social reform	Rise of the middle class led to what?	34
78331845	Alexander Grahm Bell	Invented the telephone	35
445060327	Guglielmo Marconi	Invented the radio	36
701730699	Nikolas Otto	Invented the had powered, internal combustion engine	37
831167759	Henry Ford	Brought the assembly line to automobile introduction	38
576205868	The Wright Brothers	Built the first airplane	39
197846451	Samuel Morse	Invented the telegraph	40
822552723	Louis Pasteur	Developed germ theory, which is the link between bacteria and diseases	41
245199533	Robert Koch	Discovered the bacteria that causes tuberculosis	42
515087309	William Morton	First to use anesthesia during surgery	43
179806904	Joseph Lister	Antiseptics could prevent infection	44
819773304	Florence Nightingale	Started the worlds first school of nursing	45
656370079	Charles Darwin	Theory of evolution	46
417810918	Natural selection	Idea that members of each species compete to survive, allowing the strong to reproduce	47
835280000	Gregor Mendel	Discovered patterns of the inherited traits and began the science of genetics	48
395991356	John Dalton	All matter is made of atoms	49
581586722	Biminti Mendeleev	Periodic table of elements	50
242524440	Marie Curie	Discovered radioactivity, which means atoms of the elements can spontaneously release charge particles	51
840284859	Archiology, sociology, and anthropology	The three ideas of social science that began in the 1800s	52
949320276	Psychology	Study of the human mind and behavior	53
866399364	Ivan Pavlov	Believed human actions were really unconscious reactions	54
537394666	Ivan Pavlov	Believed human actions were really unconscious reactions	55
537394667	Sigmund Freud	Studied the human subconscious and developed psychoanalysis	56
537394669	Id	The pleasure seeking impulse of the brain	57
537394670	Ego	Rationalizes what you can do	58
537394671	Superego	Rationalizes what you should do	59
770537547	Thomas Edison	Held over 1000 patents, including the light bulb and phonograph	60