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WH Final exam Flashcards

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What is realism?

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the attempt in art to represent subject matter truthfully and accurately to real life.

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What is a catalyst?

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a person or event that increases the rate, or is the casual factor to another event.

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What is a Fly Sheet

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Loose advertising sheet that gives direction/information.

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What is Humanism?

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Intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world, focused not on religion, but rather on self.

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What is doctrine?

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belief, or set of beliefs, held and taught by a church, political party, or other group

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What is a janissary, what were they used as?

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They were members of elite soldiers in the Ottoman Empire.

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What is a baylik?

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A small Turkish principality

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What was Constantinople?

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The city that Mehemed l was trying to conquer. His son made it his mission to conquer it after he died.

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What empire was formed from a small baylik and is now modern day Turkey?

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Ottoman Empire

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Who was Osman 1

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One of the most successful of the ghazis and began to build his own principality (Muslim state). Also became sultan of Ottoman Empire.

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Who was Prince Henry?

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“Prince Henry the Navigator”. Son of Portugal’s king who explored overseas in 1415. He funded 14+ voyages along the coast of Western Africa. He desired to get riches and expand Christianity.

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Who was Bartolemeu Dias?

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He explored the southeast coast of Africa until reaching the tip. He then came back to home port.

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Who was Vasco da Gama?

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He explored the east coast of Africa. He found spices, rare silks, and precious gems. He traveled 27,000 miles creating a new sea route to Asia.

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What were the 3 G’s

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God, Glory, Gold

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Who was Pizarro?

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Spanish conquistador who marched a small force into South America and conquered the Incan Empire.

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Who was Cortes?

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Spanish conquistador who landed on the shores of Mexico. He conquered the Aztec Empire.

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What was a mestizo?

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A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.

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What was the French/Indian war?

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Conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763. The Native Americans mostly sided with France.

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Why did Russia want a seaport and why did it not already have several?

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They wanted to compete with Europe for trade (economically). Russia was landlocked.

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What was the relationship between Russian landowners and serfs?

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Landowners treated serfs like personal property/slaves.

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What religion were Russians at this time?

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Orthodox Christians.

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Who did people believe had the final authority on all matters prior to the 1500’s?

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Ancient Greek & Roman theology, as well as Biblical references.

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What are the Heliocentric and Geocentric theories?

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Heliocentric: Earth revolves around the sun
Geocentric: Sun revolves around the Earth

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What did people believe in relation to reason and invention?

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You had to have reason as humanity in order for an invention to occur.

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What is Bastille Day and why is it now celebrated?

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A mob on the prison for weapons. It is celebrated because it is a revolution, put people in favor and king not.

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What is the Reign of Terror?

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Period when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.

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What is the Committee of Public Safety?

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It was Jacobin controlled. Where they killed thousands of people.

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What did the government do in relation to education?

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They set up public high schools.

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What is the society structure of Latin America/South America in this time period?

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Mestizos, creoles, peninsulares, Africans, Native Americans.

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What is a peninsular?

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Top of the Spanish-American society. People who were born in Spain.

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What is nationalism?

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“belief that people’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to nation of people who share a common culture and history.”

32
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Who is Simon Bolivar?

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Brilliant creole general who is a wealthy Venezuelan.

33
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Who is Jose de San Martin?

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Other among the 2 great liberators. Won independence for Argentinia and Chile

34
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Who was Otto Von Bismarck?

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Prime minister of Wilhelm 1. He is one of the junkers

35
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What is russification?

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Policy that forced Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the empire

36
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What is realpolitik?

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Means “the politics of reality”. It “is used to describe tough power politics with no room for idealism”.

37
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What is the Balkans?

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They are Ottoman controlled

38
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What are the four contributing factors to the industrialization of Britain?

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  1. Water power and coal to fuel new machines
  2. Iron ore to construct machines tools and buildings.
  3. Rivers for inland transportation
  4. Harbors from which merchant ships set sail
39
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What were the negative effects of rapid growth in cities like Manchester?

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Crowded housing, poor sanitation, pollution

40
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Who are the Aborgine?

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Longest ongoing culture in the world. They were later known as the “Native people” who fished, hunted, and farmed.

41
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What is Zionism?

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A movement developed to pursue the goal of the Jews to reestablish their ancient homeland.

42
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What is suffrage?

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The right to vote

43
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What is Manifest Destiny?

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Idea that the US had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

44
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What is the Third Republic?

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Members voted to set up a Republic and it lasted over 60 years.

45
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What did Britain Imperialism do in China?

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The British came into China and purposely addicted the country to opium. Therefore, ensuring buyers for their product. The whole country was wanting to purchase it and the British were making profit from it.

46
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What is the relationship between horses and steamboats?

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It had to do with Africa and there was so much malaria going through Africa so that their horses that they took to battle often were infected and steamboats had to take over, trying to transport goods. It was hard though for the British because steamboats couldn’t get to certain places that horses could.

47
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Why did Stalin create a police state?

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He wanted to control the population. He wanted to: intimidate the people, making them fearful, using brute force. He also wanted to spy on them.

48
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Who was Mao Zedong and what was the Long March?

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China’s greatest revolutionary leader. He tried to take over power of China’s main government, but it didn’t work. The distance they traveled while they were being pursued from the government army from one mountain to the next was the Long March.

49
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Who was Tang Biden?

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Another government general of China who was involved in the Mao Zedong march.

50
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What was the reason huge development in places like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait occurred?

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Oil. They have the largest distribution.

51
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What is the Great Depression and how did it occur?

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Economic crisis that caused millions of people to lose economically and in faith and democratic governments. It occurred from the stock market crash.

52
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Who and what are the Axis Powers?

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Germany, Italy, and Japan. It was an alliance.

53
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What is the Gestapo?

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Hitler’s secret police.

54
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What is the Third Reich?

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Germany fascist regime.

55
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What country did Mussolini order a massive invasion of in order to complete his dream of building an African Empire?

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Ethiopia.

56
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Who developed the theory of relativity?

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Albert Einstein

57
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Who was an Austrian physician whose theories of the unconscious mind weakened people’s faith in reason?

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Sigmund Freud

58
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Who was an Irish poet whose poem “The Second Coming” conveyed a sense of future struggles?

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Willian Butler Yeats

59
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What was the belief that there is no universal meaning to life and that each person creates his or her own meaning through choices?

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Existentialism.

60
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Who was a German philosopher who urged a return to values of pride, assertiveness, and who had a great impact on politics in Italy and Germany?

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Friedrich Nietsche

61
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What was an art movement that sought to link the world of dreams with real life?

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Surrealism

62
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What was a type of music with a lively,loose beat, developed in the US mainly by African Americans?

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Jazz

63
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Who was a Russian composer who moved away from traditional styles and used irregular rhythms and dissonances in his music?

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Igor Stavinsky

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Who was an American pilot who flew solo from New York to Paris in 1927?

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Charles Lindbergh

65
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Who was an English-born star of the silent screen whose little tramp character conveyed his comic genius?

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Charlie Chaplin

66
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What was the 1928 agreement among nations to avoid war?

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact

67
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Japan turned to a militaristic government. Who did it keep as its head?

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Emperor Hirohito

68
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What country did not pose a threat to the League of Nations?

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Great Britain

69
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As part of his dream of building an empire in Africa, in 1935, Mussolini ordered a massive invasion of?

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Ethiopia

70
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Giving in to an aggressor in order to keep the peace is called?

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Appeasement

71
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The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Jamap came to be called?

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The Axis Powers

72
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Spains Facist dictator was?

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Franciso Franco

73
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The belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided is called?

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Isolationism.

74
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Another name for the German empire under the Facist regime was the…?

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Third Reich

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