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Type of government in the Age of Pericles

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Athenian democracy

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Feared warrior-state of Ancient Greece

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Sparta

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Plato’s opinion of the amount of government control in a citizen’s life

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Every aspect of the citizens life

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Christian leader who spread Christianity beyond in the Jewish community

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Paul apostle

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How did Israelites differ from other cultures of that time in regards to the law and their leaders?

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Leaders were under the law

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Know why Greek thought challenged Christian teaching

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Because Greeks wanted reasoning vs. faith

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Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a book called A Vindication for the Rights of Women. In it did she call for equal ____?

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Education

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What were the rules referred to by Enlightenment thinkers called

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Natural law

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What English document, signed by King John in 1215 led to due process?

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Magna Carta

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Why were Enlightenment thinkers often censored?

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They challenged the ideas

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What is an enlightenment despot?

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Rulers influenced by Enlightenment and tried to gain power through social political change

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In France’s old order, which estate did the clergy belong to?

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First estate

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Because of the diversity of people and religions, what were the effects on America’s social order? (As opposed to Europe)

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It was blurred

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What was created as a result of the Estates-General in France?

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National Assembly

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What form of government came out of the National Convention in 1792 in France?

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Republic

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How did France’s National Assembly pay off the huge debts of the government ?

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Sold off church loans

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What document was the Declaration of Rights of man and the Citizen based upon?

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Declaration of Independence

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The Directory followed the Reign of Terror in France. What group dominated the Directory?

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Bourgeois

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What war tactic did the Russians use to defeat Napoleon?

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Scorched earth policy

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What did the Congress of Vienna do to support the concept if legitimacy for rulers in Europe?

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Restored hereditary monarchies on the throne

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“Bourgeois liberalism” supports which class (lower, middle, upper)

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Middle

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Which group strove for a homeland for people with a common heritage?

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Nationalists

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Toussaint L’Overture led revolt for what island country ?

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Haiti

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Why did the Congress of Vienna try to force the Netherlands and Holland into a single country in 1815 ?

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Because of France?

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Did Britain, France, and Russia support the Greek revolution because they didn’t believe in nationalist ideas?

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Yes they didn’t believe in nationalist ideas

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What was Father Miguel Hidalgo’s el Grito de Dolores” a call for?

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Revolution and independence

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What event encouraged Simon Bolivar’s struggle for Latin American independence?

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French occupation of Spain

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The Industrial Revolution caused people to move from where to where?

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Rural to urban

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What did the cotton gin do?

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Separated cotton and seeds

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The first factories made what?

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Textiles

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“The greatest happiness for the greater number” reflects what school of thought?

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Utilitarianism

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Why did Karl Marx despise capitalism?

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Prosperity for few and poverty for many

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Why was there a population explosion in Europe between 1800 & 1900?

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Medicine and sanitary living

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What is the production method called where workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process?

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Assembly line

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Who created the dynamo?

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Michael Faraday

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Why was Japan able to modernize so quickly?

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Because modernization became a priority

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What is the name of the middle class value system that supported the idea that “a mans home is his castle”?

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Cult of domesticity

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When the concept of natural selection is applied to social business systems, it is called..?

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Social Darwinism

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Romanticism was a revolt against thee Enlightenment’s emphasis on what?

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Order, harmony, reason, and emotional restraint

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What painting style portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers?

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Realism

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Bismarck’s Realpolitik addressed the needs of whom?

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Needs of state

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Why did William II ask Bismarck to resign?

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Didn’t want to share the power

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Why did Bismarck introduce social reforms to Germany?

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He was afraid of a revolution by socialists

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What was an obstacle to a unified Italy, once it was united?

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People viewed themselves as better (nationalism)

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What two countries made up the Dual Monarchy?

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Austria and Hungary

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Russia was very slow to progress in the 1800s. Why was that?

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Rigid social structure

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What was Russification?

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Making a nationalities’ culture more ethnically Russian

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What did the Great Reform Act do?

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Redistributed seats in House of Commons, eliminated boroughs, and granted male suffrage

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By the late 1800s, what type of government did Britain have?

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Constitutional monarchy

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Social reforms introduced in Great Britain in the late 1800s kept what group from getting very much support ?

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Industrial workers

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What happened in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848?

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Women’s rights convention

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The French government, after their revolution, tried to lessen the influence of Catholic Church by doing what regarding schools?

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Starting public school systems

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Widespread anti-Semitism throughout Europe in the late 1800s kept what group from getting very much support?

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Zionism

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The discovery of what in Iran led to intensified interest in the country by European countries?

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Oil fields

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The discovery of what in South Africa led to the Boer War?

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Gold and diamonds

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The idea of westerners bringing civilization to inferior races is an example of what concept?

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Social Darwinism

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What country did Japan get control of after the Russo-Japan War?

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Korea

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Rifle cartridges greased with animal fat led to what Rebellion?

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Sepoy Rebellion

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What was the purpose of the Open door policy in Asia?

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Allowed US to trade with European countries

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The US gained control of what country as a result of the Spanish American War?

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Philippines

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Know what the Monroe Doctrine says

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American policy that discouraged European interference

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What philosopher believed that the best government would be a philosopher-king?

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Plato

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Life, liberty, and property are what kind of rights?

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Natural rights

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Which country’s revolution led to a long term constitution?

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America

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What Latin American liberator was influenced by the American Revolution and Enlightenment ideals?

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Simon Bolivar

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The main purpose of both the American and French Revolution was to establish what?

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Government with all powers based on the consent of the people

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What was the goal of those who took the Tennis Court Oath in France?

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To establish a sound and just constitution

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What event showed that popular protest would play a role in the French Revolution?

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Storming the Bastille?

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Agricultural changes in England in the 1600s enable farmers to produce more ___ with fewer ___.

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Products; people

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What did Louis Pastuer’s research in germ theory prove what?

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Germs can cause disease

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Why did labor unions spring up during the Industrial Revolution ?

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Unfair working conditions

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During the Industrial Revolution, what did factory owners spend most of their money on?

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Machinery

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What artistic style developed as a reaction against classism?

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Romanticism

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At the end of the 1800s, were colonies seen as a sign of a country’s relative power?

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Yes?

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Why did Japan became a colonial power after 1894?

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Homogeneous restoration

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Anti-foreign sentiment in China in 1900 led to what rebellion?

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Boxer rebellion

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Failure to control foreign influences led to the ___ of the Chinese empires

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Fall

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By 1914, Ethiopia and Liberia were the only 2 African CPU tried to retain their what?

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Independence

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Having several branches of government is a reflection of what enlightenment concept

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Separation of power (Montesquieu)

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