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World History Final Flashcards

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Why exploration?

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God, Gold, Glory. Also a trade route for Asia

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Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese explorer. First to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by an ocean route

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Henry the Navigatior

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Portuguese prince that helped usher in the ace of discovery and Atlantic slave trade.

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Italian Navigatior, explorer, and financier who demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not the outskirts of Asia

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Magellan

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Portuguese explorer who organized the Castilian expedition, resulting in a he first circumnavigation of the earth

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Circumnavigate

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To sail all the way around the world

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic

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Columbian Exchange

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A period of cultural and biological exchanges between new and old

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African trade

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Portuguese’s African slave trade

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Conquistadors

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A conqueror, especially one of Spain/Maine

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Hernan Cortes

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Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Inca empire

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Copernicus

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Renaissance mathematician and astronomer that placed the sun at the center of the universe

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Louis XIV

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Known as Louis the Great of the Sun King, was king of France from 1643 until 1715

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Palace of Versailles

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King Louis XIV house, extremely big

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Absolute monarchy

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Only one leader

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Isaac Newton

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English physicist and mathematician. Came up with the law of gravitation

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Galileo

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Famous Italian astronomer

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Philosophes

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Studied areas of learning. Intellectuals of the enlightenment

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John Locke

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Life, liberty, and property

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Lassaiz Faire

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“Hands off” the belief that the government intervention is bad.

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Salon

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Gathering of enlightenment individuals

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Natural rights

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John Locke (life liberty and property)

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Natural laws

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Laws that govern the natural world

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Thomas Hobbes

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Social contract- agree to behave a certain way (absolute Monarchy)

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Montesquieu

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The three branches of government

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Declaration of the rights of man and citizen

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Max Robesppiere. First document for France. Like the bill of rights. People don’t want an absolute monarchy.

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Estates general

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France’s pre- Revolutionary monarchy

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Constitution of 1791

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Grants universal male suffrage

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1st estate

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Clergy

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2nd Estate

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Nobility=Knights

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3rd estate

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Everyone else

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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

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Last king and queen of France, eventually executed for treason

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Storming of Bastille

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Kicks off French Revolution. People think the kinda coming so the kill the guards

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Robespierre

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French lawyer and politician, most influential figure of French Revolution and reign of terror

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Guillotine

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A machine that was used to behead people

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Reign of terror

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When all the heads get chopped off

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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French military and political leader who gained fame during the French Revolution (very successful).

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Napoleonic code

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Legal code for France, dealt with mostly property. Some countries adopted it. Inspired by enlightenment

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Nationalism

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Thinking your country is superior to others

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Industrial revolution

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More buildings and bigger cities

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Agricultural revolution

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Updates in farming

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Enclosures

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Fencing in waste/ common land

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Imperialism

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A policy of extending a countries power and influence through diplomacy or military force

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Urbanization

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An increasing number of people who live in urban areas

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Social Darwinism

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People thought that white race was better than other races therefore they could take over

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Indian National Congress

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Wanted south rule for India

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Salt March

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Act of civil disobedience led by Gandhi

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Satyagraha

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Nonviolent protest

50
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How did the Industrial Age lead to the need for imperialism

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Countries needed a better Military force

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Why was Europe successful in building empires

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They manipulated underdeveloped nations, they controlled over weak governments

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Scramble for Africa

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King Leopold kicks it off. Kango. Europe goes after Africa and splits it into chunks

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Effects of imperialism in Africa

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It started a lot of wars

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Causes of WWI

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MAIN

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Consequences of WWI

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Treaty of Versailles- loss of land and money

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Hitlers rise to power

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Says he wanted to re build Germany while it was down

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Holocaust

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Killed many Jewish people

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Apartheid

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Segregation (whites and blacks separated)

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Nelson Mandela

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Fought to get rid of segregation and becomes the president.

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How did British control india’s people

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They made laws and strict rules

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Gandhi

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Leader of a nonviolent revolution

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Creation of Pakistan

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Late 1940’s there’s too much violence between Hindus and Muslims. Hindus stay in India and Muslims move to Packistan

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Kim Jong-un

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North Korean communist leader

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Arab-Israel conflict

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Fought over the holy land. Jewish wanted to claim Israel as their own.

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Vladimir Putin

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Prime Minister of Russia

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Hmong people and Laos

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Laos helped fight the secret war during Vietnam. Hmong fighters got weapons. Hmong people got put into camps. We left them even though we promised to help them

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Khmer Rouge

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The government group in Cambodia in the 70’s who killed millions of people

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Fidel Castro

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Cuban politician

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Cuban missile crisis

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13 day confrontation between US and SU

70
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Fall of communism how?

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German reunite

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When?

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Late 80’s and early 90’s

72
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Who fought in the Cold War?

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The 3rd world countries

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