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Reformation

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Christians broke away from the Catholic Church and started Protestant churches in Europe

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Islam

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Religion based on the teachings of Muhammad and the scripture known as the Quran

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Mosque

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Place of worship for Muslims

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Jerusalem

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City that is sacred to all 3 monotheistic religions

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Monotheistic Religions

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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, all trace roots to the Hebrew bible

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95 Theses

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Beginning of the Protestant Reformation; written by Martin Luther

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Renaissance

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“Rebirth” from 1300-1700; Emphasis on the Indiviualism

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Scientist and artist of the Renaissance

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Gutenburg Printing Press

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Invented by Johann Gutenberg; his contribution to the Renaissance

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Hanry VII

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Established the Church of England when the Catholic church and the Vatican refused to grant him a divorce

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Aztecs

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Inhabited Mexico in the 13th century, had a single ruler, and achieved their empire through conquests

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Mayans

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South American civilization, had greatest early achievements in the field of astronomy

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Vasco de Gama

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Found trade routes between India and Europe

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Columbian Exchange

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Improved standards through food crops and heavily impacted the Americas by the spread of disease, affected Plains cultures by giving them horses for hunting

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Indentured Servant

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Type of worker who signed a contract to perform work without wages for a set number of years in return for transportation to Colonial America

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Encomienda System

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Forced labor of indigenous people in the Americas

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Ferdinand Magellan

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His voyage proved it is possible to sail around the world

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Thirty Years’ War

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Conflict between Europe Protestants and Hapsburg Catholics from 1618 and 1648

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Oliver Cromwell

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General of the Puritans in the English Civial war, later ruled the country and abolishes the monarchy

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Edict of Nantes

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Declared by Hanry IV of France saying Huguenots could live in peace in France

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Japanese Farming

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Impacted by physiographic feature of mountain, 1/4 of the land is mountanious, there is limited flat land for farming or human settlement

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John Locke

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“Two Treatieses of Government”; foundation for representative government, ideas expressed in the Enlightenment and in the US Constitution

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Baron de Montequieu

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Came up with the idea of the separation of powers

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Robert Boyle

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Consisdered the founder of mondern chemistry

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Voltaire
Fought for tolerance and freedom of speech; jailed and exiled because of his teachings
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Enlightenment
Affected people's political and religious views by questioning faith and the world around them, caused by Renaissance and Reformation
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French and Indian War
Fought between Britain and France over territory in North America, Britian won
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Boston Tea Party
Boston colonists dump tea into Boston harbor because of anger over imprt tax on tea
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Heliocentric Theory
Sun-centered theory of the universe, developed by Copernicus
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Thomas Hobbes
Believed absolute monarch was the best form of government
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Adam Smith
Enlightenment thinker that criticized mercantilism and proposed free trade
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Napoleonic Code
Developed by Napoleon, influenced laws of new countries
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Causes of French Revolution
Main cause was increased taxes, also the French were greatly inspired by the American Revolution
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Estates General
Legislative system of the Old regime of France in which the First and Second Estates could always out-vote the Third
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Maximillon Robspierre
Gained power in 1793, rule known as Reign of Terror, also changed the French calendar, closed all churches, and did away with Sundays
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Marie Antoinette
Queen of France at the beginning of French Revolution, originally from Austria
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Unification of Germany
Caused by Prussia uniting Germanic peoples
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Mahatma Gandhi
Inspired by nationalism, affected Indian society by opposing British rule through civil disobedience
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Industrial Revolution
Led to the rise of labor unions and lower transportaion cost, caused by the use of interchangeable parts manufacturing, most factory workers experienced a repititve simple task during this time
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Seed Drill
Allowed England to industriallize before before other countries becuase it decreased the need for agricultural workers
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Industrialization in England
Caused improvements in farming techniques and population growth
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Textiles
Industry that enabled Industrial Revolution to spread from Great Britain to the US
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Capitalism
An economic system in which the factors of productiona re privately owned and money is invested to make a profit
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The Ten Hous Act
Law passed in 1847 the limited the workday to ten hours for women children
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Causes of WWI
Complex alliances among European Powers
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Treaty of Versailles
Held Germany responsible for WWI, payment of war reprations angered Germans the most
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Tanks (WWI)
First introduced by Britain in WWI
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Trench Warfare
Warfare tactic used in WWI in response to improvements in weaponry
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Submarine Warfare (WWI)
Used by Germaans in WWI to counter the British naval blockade of their shores
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Schlieffan Plan
Called for Germany defeating France in the west and the rushing east to fight Russia, ruined by Germany's defeat at the First Battle of the Marne in WWI
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Zimmerman Note
Telegram from Germany to Mexico that provoked U.S. entry into WWI
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Bolsheviks
More radical group of revolutionaries that followed Karl Marx's ideas
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Five-Year Plans
Outlined by Stalin for economic devloment; called for impossibly high quotas of coal, oil, and steel and limited production of consumer goods
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Bloody Sudnay
Nicholas II ordered protestors fired upon when they marched to the palace in Petrograd in 1905
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Joseph Stalin
Totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union who limited people's rights and ruled for over 20 years
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Totalitarian States
Used propaganda and censorship to control the hearts and inds of their citizenry
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New Deal
Consisted of large public works programs to provide jobs proposed by Roosevelt to help stop the Great Depression
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Dawes Plan
$200 million loan from U.S. to Germany in 1923; helped Germany recover from the 1923 inflation and set a more realistic schedule for its reparation payments
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Adolf Hitler
Believed nationalsim would improve social and economic problems in Germany
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Francisco Franco
Led the authoritarian grovernment that emerged in Spain following the Spanish civil war
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Blitzkrieg
Germeny's plicy of attacking suddenly in WWII
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Charles de Gaulle
Franch genral who set up government-in exile in London when France became occupied by Germany in WWII
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General Erwin Rommel
German genreal who led forces in Egypt also known as the "desert fox"
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Battle of Britan
Began in the summer of 1940 witht he Luftwaffe boming London
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Scorched-Earth Policy
Used by the Soviet Union as a strategy during Germany's invation in 1941
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Atomic Bomb
Used to end WWII in the Pacific because it was believed an invation of Japan would cost too many casualties; authorized President Truman
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United Nations
Organization founded after WWII to maintain international peace and social progress
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"Baby Boomers"
Generation of people born after WWII during strong economic growth of teh post-WWII period
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Peal Harbor
Japanese attacked because the U.S. implementedan oil embargo against Japan
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Bataan Death March
March of over 50 miles in the Philippines in which the Japanese killed over 16,000 prisoners of war
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Kristallnacht
Happened on November 9, 1938, Nazi mobs attacked Jews in the streets and destroyed Jewish businesses
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Concentration Camp
Jewish prisoners were divided upon arrival
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Extermination
Final stage of genocide in which Nazi Germany used gas chambers on the Jewish prisoners
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NATO and the Marshall Plan
shared the same goal of containing the spread of communism
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Apartheid
Term used to describe lows no longer in effect in South Aftrica the separtated the races

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