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“Great Charter”- a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, drawn up by nobles and approved by king John in AD 1215

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Magna Carta

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The rights that all people are born with- according to John Locke, the rights of life, liberty, and property

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Natural rights

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A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation

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Parliament

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a movement in 19th century paining, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or moments in time

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Impressionism

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a period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning , and views of the world

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Renaissance

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the idea that monarchs are God’s representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God

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divine right

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a spiritually inspired leader or teacher believed to be a messenger from god

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prophet

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an 18th century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society

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enlightenment

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the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens’ basic rights and freedoms

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English Bill of rights

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the monotheistic religion of the Hebrews founded by Abraham around 2000 BC

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Judaism

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the French war for democracy that began in 1789 and ended with the over throw of the monarchy

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French Revolution

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a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land

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feudalism

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A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon

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Napoleonic Code

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a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17,1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people

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National Assembly

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An indecisive king who did not care for the welfare of the people and put the government into debt

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Louis XVI

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a pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789*, in which they bowed they continued meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution

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tennis court oath

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a radical who at first believed in a “ republic of virtue”, he later became mad with lower and was sentenced to his death by the guillotine

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Maximilien Robespierre

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A sudden seizure of political power in a nation

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coup d etat

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The prison that the French took over during the French Revolution

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Bastille

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Otto von Bismarck

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the followers of the 19th century Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Red Shirts

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a 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be

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realism

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“the politics of reality”-the practice of tough power politics without room for idealism

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realpolitik

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the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation-that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history-rather than to a king or empire

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Nationalism

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in Spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Spain
peninsulares
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the shift, beginning in England during the 18th century, from making good by hand to making them by machine
industrial revolution
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one of the fenced-in or hedged -in fields created by wealthy British landowners on land that was formerly worked by village farmers
enclosures
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spinning jenny
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a social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business-people, and wealthy farmers
middle class
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a conflict lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in south Africa
Boer war
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a conflict, lasting from 1853 to 1856, in which the Ottoman Empire, with the aid of Britain and France, halted Russian expansion in the region of the Black Sea
Crimean War
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idea that in time, the local populations would become absorbed into French culture
assimilation
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the system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land
crop rotation
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labor
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a person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business
entrepreneur
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a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially
imperialism
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the indian soldier serving under british command
sepoy
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division of labor and money in human society
caste
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a policy of treating subject people a s if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights
paternalism
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agricultural crops which are grown for sale
cash crop
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the development of industries for the machine production of goods
industrialization
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capital
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the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit
annexation
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a meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa
berlin conference
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a foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands
geopolitics
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survival of the fittest- justification for imperialist expansion
social darwinism
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the growth of cities and the migration of people into them
urbanization
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a conflict between Britain and China, lasting from 1839 to 1842, over Britain's opium trade in china
opium war
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the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit
annexation
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an exemption of foreign residents from the laws of a country
extraterritorial rights
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an 1854 agreement between the United states and japan, which opened two Japanese ports to U.S> ships and allowed the u.s.to set up an embassy in Japan
treaty of kanangawa
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a U.S. policy of opposition to European interference in Latin America, announced by President James Monroe
monroe doctrine
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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in Would War I, the region of northern France, where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other
western front
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a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I
fourteen points
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the telegram that the British intercepted from Germany to Mexico
Zimmerman telegram
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the period of Japanese history from 1867 to 1912, during which the country was ruled by Emperor Mutsuhito
Meiji era
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in World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side
allied powers
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a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal
treaty of Versailles
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a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
militarism
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a policy, proposed by the United States in 1899, under which all nations would have equal opportunities to trade in china
open door policy
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a manmade waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, built in Panama by the United States and opened in 1914
panama canal
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a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort
total war
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an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations
league of nations
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the freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live
self-determination
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U.S. president during the period of World War I, proposed the Fourteen Points at the Paris peace conference
Woodrow Wilson
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prime minister of France who wanted to punish Germany at the Paris peace conference
George Clemenceau
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The prime minister of Great Britain who attended the Paris Peace conference
David Lloyd George
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Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia
schlieffen plan
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in world War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks
eastern front
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a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield
trench warfare

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