Final Flashcards

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Anarchy

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A state of disorder due to absence of nonrecognition of authority or other controlling systems

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Oligarchy

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A small group of people having control of country, organization, or institusion

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Republic

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A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives and which has elected nominated president rather than a monarch

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Monarchy

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A form of government with a Monarch at the head

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Democracy

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A system of government by which the whole population or all the eligible members of a state typically through elected representatives.

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Socialism

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A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

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Theocracy

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Government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god

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Dictatorship

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Government by a dictator or one single person with all the power.

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serf

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An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord’s estate

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knight

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A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor

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Lord

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Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler

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King

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The male ruler of an independent state especially one who inherits the position by right of birth

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Pope

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The Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church

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Feudalism

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A social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return.

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Feudalism Hierarchy

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At the top of the hierarchy in the feudal system was a king, traditionally owned all land and granted it directly to noblemen known as lords who held heredity rights to it.

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Hinduism

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A major religious and cultural tradition of south Asia, which developed from Vedic religion

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Buddhism

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A widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century BC

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Judaism

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The monotheistic religion of the Jewish people

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Christianity

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The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices

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Islam

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The religion of the Muslim, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammed as the prophet of Allah

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Bubonic Plague

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The most common form of plague in humans. characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of buboes.

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Hump of Africa

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The massive shoulder of Africa that protrudes into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lineage Group

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The decent group reckoned through only one parent either the father or the mother.

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Nazca Lines

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A group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru.

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The Long Count

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an astronomical calendar with each universal cycle lasting 2,880,000 days.

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Maya

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A modern-day group of people who live across the globe and their ancestors who built an ancient civilization that stretched across much of Central America

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist.

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Martin Luther

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Fractionalizing the Catholic Church and sparking the protestant reformation

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Catholic Church Influence in Latin America

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The lingering effects of Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the region and the Roman Catholic missions that accompanied those endeavours

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Ottoman Empire

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An empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern

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The Hermit Kingdom

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Any country organization or society that willfully walls itself off either metaphorically or physically from the rest of the world.

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John Locke’s and Rousseau’s ideals

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the individual should never be forced the give up his or her natural rights to a king

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what 3 issues caused French peasants to rebel

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the estate system, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution

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Social changes brought on by the Industrial Rev

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rapid urbanization or the movement of people to the cities

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Second industrial rev

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Encompassing most of the second half of the nineteenth century

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Social Darwinism

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the theory that individuals groups and people are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals

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John Hay- Open Door Policy

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establishing equal access to commerce would benefit American traders and the U.S. economy and hoped that the Open Door would also prevent disputes between the powers operating in China.

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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche.

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Sun Yat-sen

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Sun was a Chinese statesman physician and political philosopher who served as the first provisional president of the republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang

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reason for European nations to search for colonies overseas

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felt that colonies were crucial to military power national security and nationalism

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Industrialization’s Impact on the Military

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New military machinery could be produced ar much larger scale and at a much faster rate than before

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Serbia and Austria Hungary

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Killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Women’s new role in the work force

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employment for women went from 8% to 47%

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Russia’s provisional Government mistake

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To carry on the war

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Total War

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mobilization refusal to compromise the blurring of roles between soldiers and civilians and total control of society.

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No-Mans-Land

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inhabitable and unknown land between or in the middle of the battlefield.

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Self-determination

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Nation a group of people with similar political ambitions can seek to create its own independent government state

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Conscription

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compulsory enlistment for state service typically into the armed forces

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Mobilization

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the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.

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Planned Economies

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Another term for a command economy

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War of Attrition

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A prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other through a series of small-scale actions

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Woodrow Wilson

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after a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of world war I Wilson led America into the war in order to make the world safe for democracy

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Treaty of Versailles

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was a peace treaty signed on June 28 1919 at the most important treaty of the world, it ended the state of war between Germany and the rest of the world

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Bolshevik Rev

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The Russian Revolution was a series of uprisings from 1905 to 1917 led by peasants, laborers, and Bolsheviks against the failed rule of the czarist Romanovs.

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triple Alliance

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Germany Austria and ottoman empire

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain France and Russia

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Schlieffen Plan

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in case of the outbreak of war, Germany would attack France first and then Russia.