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A clear appearance of something

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Manifestation (n)

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Done in a dramatic, serious, intense manner

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Drastically (adv)

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Tariff (n)

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The tax or duty to be paid for exports and imports

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Decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something

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Crucial (adj)

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The respect and admiration felt for someone’s achievements or success

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Prestige (n)

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A set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true

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Doctrine (n)

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A place or group that is different in character from what is surrounding it

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Enclave (n)

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Producing money or wealth

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Lucrative (adj)

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Produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment

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Indigenous (adj)

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The process of losing strength or being broken into small pieces

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Disintegration (n)

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To end or stop something, usually by using force

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Quell (v)

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The remaining part of something

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Remnant (n)

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Property that you received from the father when he dies

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Patrimony (n)

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Belonging or relating to a group or people who travel seasonally and farm during periods of settlement

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Seminomadic (adj)

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The total amount of money paid for loss, compensation

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Indemnity (n)

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To take ownership of something

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Annex

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A project or activity that involves many people, and that is often difficult”

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Enterprise (n)

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Respect and admiration for being successful or important

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Prestige (n)

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To become involved in something (such as a conflict) in order to have an influence on what happens

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Intervention (n)

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Planting or tilling

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Cultivation (n)

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To slow the movement, progress, or action of (someone or something)

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Impede (v)

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Not developed or civlized

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Primitive (adj)

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The middle class, which usually has traditional values

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Bourgeois (n)

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To record a series of events in an accurate and detailed way

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Chronicle (v)

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Doing something with consideration and focus on every detail
Meticulously (adv)
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the curved path along which something moves
Trajectory (n)
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An argument that involves many people who strongly disagree about something
Controversy (n)
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A drug that is made from tree bark, used to treat malaria
Quinine (n)
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Full of fear and anxiety
Frantic (adj)
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Dramatic, serious, severe, intense
Drastic (adj)
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Kowtow
kneel down and touch the ground with the forehead to worship or show respect as part of Chinese custom.
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Barbarian
a person who lacks culture
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Complacent
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Extraterritorial rights
Rights of foreigners outside of their countries, negotiated by diplomats from more powerful countries.
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Junks
a old traditional ship that the Chinese used to fight the Westerns.
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Sovereignity
Independence for a country
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Indemnity
Protection from damage, injury, financial loss or legal liability.
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Prominent
well-known or easily noticed
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Millenium
A period of a thousand years
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hereditary privileges
a right or power inherited by the family or group members.
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Ideology
Ideas or ideals that are dependent on periods and are mostly about economic or polictical theory and policies
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Diplomatic
maintaining good relationships between different countries
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Propaganda
Information that has been exaggerated or biased in order to support the cause.
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Homogeneity
The state of being alike, similar or comparable in kind or nature, or of a similar structure or quality
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suzerainty
It's when a powerful nation controls other foreign nations. The controlled foreign nations allow them to.
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Peasant
Farmers who are poor and in the lower class of society
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Medieval
Relating / belonging to the Middle Ages
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Penmanship
the art or skill of hand-writing
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Filial piety
The responsibility of the son or daughter to be respect, good to parents.
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Despot
A tyrant
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Feudal
a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages that is based on the holding of all land in fiefs for fee.
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Centralized
To gather everyone under the same power, authority.
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Universal conscription
Forcefully enlisting, especially to the millitary services
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indentured serf
A member of the lowest feudal class
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expansionist
Countries stretch out their territorial land in order to get profit economically by millitary.
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Gentry
people who are in high social position specifically in UK.
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Tokugawa Era
A strong shogunate which rose powerfully after a protracted civil war, was the last feudal Japanese military, existed between 1603 and 1868
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Sun Yat-Sen
One of the founders of Republic of China.
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Shogun
General, military commander. Powerful military leader. Ruled with varying degrees of effectiveness in the name of the hereditary emperor.
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Feudalism
The social system in which the normal people work for the nobels. In the opposite, the people will receive land and protection from the nobels.
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Meiji Restoration
A revolution that restored practical imperial rule to Japan under Emperor Meiji
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Daimyo
most powerful feudal rulers, one of the great lords who were the vassals of the shogun. Feudal lords in the countryside.
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Empress Dowager Cixi
The last emperess of Qing Dynasty - Used naval money for her summer palace - Used jade cups and golden chopstics for eating - 150 dishes for meals
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preeminence
leading all others. Superior than others.
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Sun Yat-sen
The first president of the Republic of China (also known as the father of modern China)
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Charter Oath of 1868
The new leader who promised to create a new deliberative assembly within the framework of continue imperial rule.
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Concentration

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