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| 14280084005 | Declaration of Independence | A document modeled after the political philosophies of John Locke. It altered the natural rights identified by John Locke to include "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." | 0 | |
| 14280084506 | Self-Strengthening Movement | A late nineteenth century movement in which the Chinese modernized their army and encouraged Western investment in factories and railways | 1 | |
| 14280085185 | queue | a long ponytail that chinese men were forced to wear in order to distinguish them from Manchus | 2 | |
| 14280086908 | domestic system | A manufacturing method in which the stages of the manufacturing process are carried out in private homes rather than a factory setting | 3 | |
| 14280094292 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | A statement of political rights adopted by the French National Assembly during the French Revolution | 4 | |
| 14280095079 | Communism | An economic system in which the state controls the means of production | 5 | |
| 14280095605 | Suez Canal | Canal constructed by Egypt across the Isthmus of Suez in 1869 | 6 | |
| 14280096317 | Napoleonic Code | Collection of laws that standardized French law under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte | 7 | |
| 14280097005 | Economic Imperialism | Control of a country's economy by the businesses of another nation | 8 | |
| 14280097696 | Sphere of Influence | Divisions of a country in which a particular foreign nation enjoys economic privileges | 9 | |
| 14280098214 | Jacobins | Extreme radicals during the French revolution | 10 | |
| 14280098590 | Theory of Natural Selection | Idea, first proposed by Charles Darwin, that species survive due to favorable characteristics | 11 | |
| 14280099583 | Bourgeoisie | In France, the class of merchants and artisans who were members of the Third Estate and initiators of the French Revolution; in Marxist theory, a term referring to factory owners | 12 | |
| 14280101628 | Proletarian | In Marxist theory, the class of workers in an industrial society | 13 | |
| 14280102518 | Indian National Congress | Political party that became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement | 14 | |
| 14280105706 | Boxer Rebellion | Revolt against foreign residents of China | 15 | |
| 14280106171 | First Indian Rebellion(sepoy mutiny) | Revolt of Indian soldiers against the British; caused by a military practice in violation of the Muslim and Hindu faiths (1857) | 16 | |
| 14280107873 | natural rights | Rights that belong to every person and that no government may take away | 17 | |
| 14280108581 | young turks | Society founded in 1889 in the Ottoman Empire; its goal was to restore the constitution of 1876 and to reform the empire | 18 | |
| 14280109400 | boers | South Africans of Dutch descent | 19 | |
| 14280109401 | sepoys | South Asian soldiers who served in the British army in India | 20 | |
| 14280110700 | revolution of 1905 | Strikes by urban workers and peasants in Russia; prompted by shortages of food and by Russia's loss to Japan in 1905 | 21 | |
| 14280111263 | industrial revolution | The ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production | 22 | |
| 14280111689 | Social Darwinism | The application of Darwin's philosophy of natural selection to human society | 23 | |
| 14280112632 | separation of powers | The division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government | 24 | |
| 14280113269 | estates | The divisions of society in pre-revolutionary France | 25 | |
| 14280113270 | Imperialism | The establishment of colonial empires | 26 | |
| 14280113995 | enclosure movement | The fencing of pasture land in England beginning prior to the Industrial Revolution | 27 | |
| 14280114408 | bill of rights | The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States | 28 | |
| 14280114864 | Qing | The Manchurian invaders who ruled China from 1644 to the early 1900s | 29 | |
| 14280115744 | Berlin Conference | The meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them | 30 | |
| 14280116116 | Feminism | The movement to achieve women's rights | 31 | |
| 14280116737 | reign of terror | The period of the most extreme violence during the French Revolution | 32 | |
| 14280117159 | Meiji Restoration | The restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate | 33 | |
| 14280117589 | duma | The Russian parliament | 34 | |
| 14280118221 | raj | The Sanskrit name for the British government in India | 35 | |
| 14280118222 | Gran Colombia | The temporary union of the northern portion of South America after the independence movements led by Simon Bolivar | 36 | |
| 14280119339 | Estates General | The traditional legislative body of France | 37 | |
| 14280120080 | Treaty of Nanjing | The treaty ending the Opium war that ceded Hong Kong to the British (1842) | 38 | |
| 14280121364 | opium war | War between Great Britain and China began with the Qing dynasty's refusal to allow continued opium importation into China; British victory resulted in the Treaty of Nanking(1839-1842) | 39 | |
| 14280121810 | Sino-Japanese War | War between Japan and China, in 1895, over control over Korea | 40 | |
| 14280122256 | Russo-Japanese War | War between Russia and Japan over Manchurian territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese Navy | 41 | |
| 14280123139 | Boer war | War between the British and the Dutch over Dutch independence in South Africa; resulted in British victory (1899-1902) | 42 |