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age of expiration (PSD)

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Portuguese, spanish, dutch

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ruling by divine right

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absolutism

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3
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louis the XIV wars

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to strengthen france and protect the burbon family

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peter the great

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wanted russia to westernize

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5
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james 1

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king of england, rules by absolutism, cause problems with parliament

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uses his army to stay in power

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oliver cromwell

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7
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strengthens parliament and king weaker

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glorious revolution

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leads to a constitutional monarchy

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english bill of rights

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MAP

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mathematics, astronomy, physics

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10
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proved the heliocentric theory of universal gravity

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issac newton

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republic reading/ letters, unorthodox religious ideas, against censorship

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enlightenment

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writes about children in his books, “children are a blank slate”’

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john locke

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13
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does not like religious intoleration

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voltaire

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14
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free market economy

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adam smith

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15
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french revolution saying

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liberty , equally, fraternity

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tennis court oath decided to create a french constitution

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national assembly

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17
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reign of terror killed who

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peasant and working class

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18
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coupd’etat

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napoleon rose to power

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19
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napoleon biggest victory

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battle of austerlitz

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20
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defeat of napoleon

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battle of waterloo

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21
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main industry in revolution

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cotton textile

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22
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steam engine used for

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railroads

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23
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child labor discipline

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repetitively beat kids to behave

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24
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crystal palace showed off britain’s industrial dominance

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the great exhibition of 1841

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25
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conservatives trying to maintain control of Europe

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control of vienna

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26
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voice of liberalism

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edmund burn

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27
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individual rights

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liberalism

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28
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romanticism

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poetry

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29
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broke apart the concert of europe, unification of germany and italy

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crimean war

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italian unification

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count covour

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31
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unified germany

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besmirk

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32
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increase number of votes in britain

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industrial reform act of 1867

33
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led to classless society

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karl marx, bourgeois vs. proletariat

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theory of relativity

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“god is dead”

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psycho analysis , talk out problems

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sigmund freud

37
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antisemitism in france

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dreyfus affair

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example imperialistic war in south africa

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trench warfare in west

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women after wwi

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gained suffrage

41
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blamed the whole war on germany

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versailles treaty

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wwi results

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end to the old order

43
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developed by Wittgenstein and only experience worth analyzing

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logical positivism

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satre, atheistic

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existentialism

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reformation in the modern world

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catholic, religious toleration

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the decline of the west

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oswald spengler

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franz kafka

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the metamorphosis, guy to roach

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quiet on the western front

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art for use

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functionalism

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the cry, anxiety and fear, munch

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expressionism

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compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world , picasso

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war in spain, women holding dead children,

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attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior, delighting in outrageous conduct ,

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dada artists joined the surrealist, dreams and the unconscious

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surrealism

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the persistence of memory

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slavador dali

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cheaper goods, mass production, professional advertising

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consumer culture

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flappers and suffrage

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every major country quickly set up broadcasting networks ,

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charlie chaplin

61
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causes of wwii

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unfinished business from wwi, versailles treaty, world wide depression, rise of dictatorship

62
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5 nations ruled by dictators

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soviet union, italy, germany, spain, japan

63
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stalin ruler

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soviet union

64
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mussolini ruler

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hitler ruler

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franco ruler

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tojo ruler

68
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government controls all aspects of the lives of the people

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tolerationism

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capitalism’s and communism, farm surpluses and handicraft in markets

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new economy policy (NEP) lenin

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“socialism in one country”

71
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head of both the communist party and soviet government.

72
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bring peasantry under absolute control of the communist state

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collectivization

73
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work camps, siberia slave labor

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organized the fascist party

75
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failed army uprising in munich

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the beer hall putsch

76
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autobiography outline plans for conquest of europe

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mein kampf

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brown shirts, thugs of nazi party, public beatings

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minister of propaganda, anti- intellectualism

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joseph goebbles

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