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18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned, and usually with walls, fences, or hedges around it.
Enclosure Movement
In 1868 the Tokugawa shogunate who ruled Japan in the feudal period, lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position
Meiji Restoration
Any of the large capitalist enterprises of Japan before WW2 similar to the cart lets or trusts, but usually organized around a single family/ A large Japanese business conglomerate
Zaibatsu
French history middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes/ The capitalist class who owned most of societies wealth and means of production
Bourgeoisie
Workers or working class people regarded collectively who possess significance in their labor power
Proliteriate
Private social gatherings, often hosted by wealthy women, where intellectuals, artists, and members of the upper class would convene to discuss ideas, philosophy, politics, and literature; spreading enlightenment ideals.
Salons(French Revolution)
Descendants of Africans from the Americas and Islands of the Indian ocean who escaped from slavery, through fight and manumission, and formed their own settlements.
Maroons
A theory of morality that advocates actions that foster happiness and pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm
Utilitarianism
Qing Dynasty of China introduced western methods and technology an attempt to renovate Chinese military, diplomatic, fiscal and educational policy
Self-Strengthening Movement
A large old building which is divided into a number of individual apartments/ Room or set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments a piece of land held by owner
Tenement
A member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. They were the most ruthless and radical of political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution and in association with Robespierre they instituted The Terror(1793-1794)
Jacobin’s
System of cultural beliefs or ideals in the 19th century that governed gender roles in upper and middle-class societies
The cult of domesticity
Modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic. An idealistic reforemer
Utopian
A person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean/People of European descent who were born in America
Creole
A movement for the re-establishment and now the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel
Zionism
An Afrikaans-speaking person in South Africa, especially one descendant of Dutch and Huguenot settlers of the 17th century
Afrikaners
A region within a country over which another country claims certain exclusive rights
Spheres of Influence(China)
A bitter crystalline compound present in cinchona bark, used as tonic and formerly as an antimalarial drug
Quinine
Indian soldiers employed within a European military garrisons to provide the much needed manpower for the defense of European colonies in Asia
Sepoy(Colonial India)
The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline
Philosophies
