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First estate

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Clergy (the church)

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Second estate

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Nobility (knights)

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Third estate

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Everyone else & peasants, farmers, wealthy business class

Demanded equal taxation & constitution

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The National Assembly

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Had a meeting with clergy, nobility & commoners

Voting was unfair, commoners broke away & created the National Assembly

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The attack of the Bastille

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Start of the French Revolution
—> National Assembly met in Paris, but the king threatened to arrest leaders
—> attack of bastille (prison symbolizing abuses of monarchy & corrupt aristocracy)
—> king was forced to accept National Assembly as being in charge

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King Louis XVI

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Last king of France before monarchy fell during the French Revolution
—> first French Republic (refused to accept limited monarchy)
—> dissatisfaction of jacobins (left wing to end King Louis XVI)

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First French Republic

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Refused to accept limited monarchy

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Jacobins

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Left-wing group to end king Louis XVI

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Gilbert Du Motier/Lafayette

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Helped colonist against British & financially aided the American Revolution

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The March on Versailles

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Women’s March on liberal political reforms & constitution monarchy
—> ended kings independence & signified change in power & reforms

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The flight to Varennes

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Royal family’s unsuccessful escape from Paris
—> queen & king against Revolution
—> execution of King Louis XVI

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The Brunswick Manifesto

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Promised that if Louis XVI was not harmed, allies would not harm civilians

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Laws of Maximum

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Government control of prices, taxed the rich, assistance to poor & free education

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Comte de Murabeau

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Declaration of rights of man and of citizen (civil rights to some commoners)

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and if the Citizen

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Civil rights to some commoners

—> same time: abolishment of feudalism

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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Attempt to reorganize the Catholic Church on a national basis
—> caused Catholics to turn against the Revolution
—> religious split

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Legitimized actions from holding a referendum (popular vote)
—> created the legion of honor (rewards most deserving citizens)

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Legion of Honor

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Rewards most deserving citizens

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The concordat

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Reunión between (Napoleon’s) revolutionaries & Catholics

—> Catholic Church as major church of France

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Napoleonic Code

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Authority of men stronger, deprived women of individual rights
—> model for many lawns in European states

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University of France

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Curriculum centered on patriotism

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Continental System

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Strategy to weaken Britain’s economy by banning trade
—> ineffective & led to the fall of Napoleon
—> invaded Russia to enforce policy

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Guerilla Warfare in the Peninsula War

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Armed civilians vs Napoleon’s Army in Spain & Portugal

—> Napoleon’s forced pushed out of Spain

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Georges Danton

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French Revolution & president of committee of safety

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Maximilien Robespierre

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French Revolution & president of national convention & committee of public safety

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Congress of Vienna

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Peace plan for Europe to establish a balance of powers

—> territorial changes kept Europe stable for almost 50 years

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Simon Bolivar

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Latin American revolutionary leader

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José de San Matin

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Argentinian general & won independence in Chile against Spain

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Guayaquil Conference

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Meeting between José de San Martin and Bolivar to discuss the future of Peru
—> disagreed —> De San Martin desired a monarchy & Bolivar desired a Republican government

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Diderot

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Contributed to ideas of the French Revolution through essays

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Voltaire

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Religious freedom (separation of church & state)

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Montesquieu

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Checks and balances & different branches of government

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Direct rule

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Central governments control the country (foreign affairs)

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Indirect rule

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Central government has power, but so do local governments

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Communism

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Equal distribution, public ownership

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Capitalism

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Industries controlled by private owners rather than the state

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Thomas Hobbes

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Social contract

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Jean-Jacques Rosseau

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Expanded social contract & will of the people

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John Locke

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Natural rights & right to overthrow the government

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Enclosure movement

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Large landowners forced small landowners to give up and move to cities (industrialization)

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Kind George III of Britain

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Victory in seven years’ war & lost American colonies/ revolution
—> seven years’ war (British vs France power in North America)

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Seven years’ war

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British vs France over power in North America

—> ended with Treaty of Paris

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Treaty of Paris

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Ended the Seven Years’ War

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44
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Cecil Rhodes

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Imperialist in Southern Africa driving annexations & diamonds for global trade

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Adam Smith

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Laissez-faire economics, free market & capitalism (Laissez-faire —> no government interference in economics)

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Laissez-faire

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No government interference in economics

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John Stuart Mill

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Utilitarianism (actions are right if they benefit a majority)

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Utilitarianism

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actions are right if they benefit a majority

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Thomas Paine

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Advocate for U.S. freedom from Britain & anti-church

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Nat Turner

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Held a rebellion of enslaved people

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Dutty Boukman

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Leader of Haitian Revolution

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Simon Bolivar

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Latin American revolutionary leader who pushed enlightenment ideas in Latin America

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José de San Martin

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Argentinian general & won independence in Chile against Spain

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Guayaquil Conference

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Meeting between José de San Martin and Bolivar to discuss the future of Peru
—> disagreed —> De San Martin desired a monarchy & Bolivar desired a Republican government

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What did De San Martin desire

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A monarchy

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What did Bolivar desire

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A Republican government

57
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Karl Marx

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Communism

—> Marxism

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Marxism

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Communism under Karl Marx

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Otto Von Bismarck

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Prussia (Germany)

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Matthew Commodore Perry

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U.S. naval officer who forced Japan into imperialism

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Zaibatsu

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Large influence on Japanese economy & industrialization

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Meiji Restoration

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Dissolution of Japan’s feudal system & restoration of new imperial system

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Russo-Japanese War

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War between Russia and Japan for territorial dominance (Korea & Manchuria)
—> Japan won & gained power

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King Leopold II

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Established Congo Free State by seizing African Land for personal possession
—> brutal treatment of Native Americans in the Congo

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Metternich

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Attempted to restore European politics to a pre-revolutionary state

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What was the American Revolution inspired by?

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The enlightenment

67
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Physiocrats

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Believed agriculture was the source of wealth & agricultural products should be priced high

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Declaration of Independence

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Colonists’ fight against British rule & rights to life, liberty, & the persist of happiness
—> Thomas Jefferson borrowed enlightenment ideas from John Locke

69
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How did _______ write the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence by videoing enlightenment ideas from John Locke

70
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Reign of Terror

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Government executed opponents of the revolution

—> Napoleon became emperor, powerful police system (limited freedom of expression), religious freedom

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What enlightenment ideas did the revolutions portray?

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That men had natural rights as citizens

  • Haitian Revolution
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • Simon Bolivar
  • declaration of independence (Connecting to John Locke)
72
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What did Simon Bolivar do?

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Was a Latin American revolutionary leader who pushed enlightenment ideas in Latin America

73
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Toussaint L’Ouverture

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Slave revolt leader, established constitution & independent government

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

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Haitian Declaration of Independence

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Creole

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Desire for independence from Spain

—> wealthy business owners who opposed Spain’s mercantilism (required colonists to only buy and sell goods to Spain)

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Mercantilism

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required colonists to only buy and sell goods to Spain

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Jamaica letter

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Desire for Latin American unity & vision for a Republican government

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Caudillos

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Leaders with regional power bases that disregarded representative forms of government
—> constitutions of newly independent countries ended social differences & abolished slavery

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Lola Rodríguez de Tío

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Poet during an era of low opportunities for women

—> critiqued Spain’s tule over Puerto Rico & home became meeting place for revolutionary thinkers

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José Rizal

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Advocated for great autonomy (self-government) for the Philippines
—> executed which caused nationalist movement which led to Philippine Revolution

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Seneca Falls Convention

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Women’s suffrage movement

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Advocated for women’s rights

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Cecil Rhodes

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Imperialist in Southern Africa driving annexations & diamonds for global trade

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White Man’s Burden

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Belief that Europeans had responsibility to civilize Africans

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Berlin conference

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Sought to end European competition by dividing Africa

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Suez Canal

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Powerful trade location to India

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Sepoy Mutiny

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Uprising against British rule in India

—> caused by a rumor that pig fat was being used in ammunition

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Sphere of Influence

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One country claims exclusive rights of a different country

—> European powers control over economics

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Treaty of Nanking

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Ended first opium war

—> Britain made China pay for losses & Britain gained Hong Kong

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British Raj

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British rule over India

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Sepoys

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Indian soldiers serving under British order

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Boers

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South African (“farmers”) that spoke Afrikaaner
—> against Christian missionaries, Kung Fu fighters, against Europeans in China
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Open Door Policy

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All countries had equal trade with China

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Opium Wars

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Two wars between China & Western powers against British merchants who sold Opium in China

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Tailing Rebellion

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Revolt against Qing Dynasty in China over economic issues in China

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Sino-Chinese War

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Wat between China & Japan over influence on the Korean Peninsula

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Apartheid

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Separation of whites and blacks socially & politically in South Africa

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Menelik II

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Emperor of Ethiopia

—> won battle of area & won independence for Ethiopia against Italian forced

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Tokugawa Shogunate

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Government of Japan who held peace and prosperity for over 250 years
—> worked to close for Japanese society from western influences

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Sengoku period

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Period of political upheaval and war in Japan between feudal Lorda for land & power

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Treaty of Kanagwa

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Signed of U.S. commodore Perry with the Japanese government to open the ports of Japan

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Extraterritoriality

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Foreign powers are not subject to local laws

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Father de Oliveira

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Brazilian independence against Portuguese

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Ottomanism

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Uniting the Ottoman Empire to prevent its collapse

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Battle of Plassey

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British East India Company (led by Robert Clive) defeated governor of Bengal
—> British were given control of area

106
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Britain transported large numbers of _____to Australia

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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led revolutionary movement against the Spanish & faught U.S. presence in Philippines

108
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Maroon societies

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Runaway slave communities

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Confucianism

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Chinese belief system based off of morality & ethics

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