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HI 102
pages 277-307(test 2)
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10/04/2011

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Pierre and Marie Curie
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founded polonium and radium
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Edward Jenner
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devoloped the first vaccine
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Louis Pasteur
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germ theory of disease
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germ theory of disease
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every infectious disease is caused by a specific germ
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Thomas Alva Edison
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the greatest inventor in history, patented 1,093 inventions
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Thomas Newcomen
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steam engine and steam pump
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
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mercury thermoneter
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John Hadley
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navigational sextant
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John Harrison
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chronometer
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Benjamin Franklin
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lightning rod
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Pierre-Simon Girard
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water turbine
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James Watt
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first commercial steam engine
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David Bushnell
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submarine
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John Scheller
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fountain pen
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Jospeh and Jacques Montgolfier
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manned balloon
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Horace de Saussere
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hygrometer
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Edmund Cartwright
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power loom
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Joseph Bramah
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hydrolic press
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Allessandro Volta
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electric battery
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Eli Whitney
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interchangable rifle parts
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Joseph Jacquard
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loom for patterned fabric
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Rboert Fulton
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steamboat
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Alexander Forsyth
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percussion cap
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Sir Humphrey Davy
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electric arc light
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Rene Laernee
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stethoscope
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Michael Faraday
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electric dynamo
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John and Hiram Pitts
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threshing machine
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Samuel Colt
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revolver
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Louis Daguerre
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daguerreotype photography
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Charles Goodyear
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vulcanization of rubber
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Charles Babbage
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calculating machine
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Samuel Morse
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electric telegraph
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Elias Howe
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sewing machine
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R. W. Bunsen
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gas burner
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Jean Foucault
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gyroscope
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Elisha G. Otis
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passenger elevator
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Henry Bessemmer
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steel convertor
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Edwin L. Drake
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oil well
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Oliver Winchester
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repeating rifle
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Richard Gatling
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machine gun
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Thaddeus Lowe
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ice making machine
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Alfred Noble
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dynamite
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Christopher Shole
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typewriter
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George Westinghouse
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air brake
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Simon Ingersoll
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pneumatic rock drill
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Joseph Glidden
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barbed wire
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Elihu Thompson
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electric welding
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Carl Gustafde Laval
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cream seperator
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Thomas Edison
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phonograph
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Thomas Edison
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incandescent elctric light bulb
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James Wimshurst
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electrostatic generator
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Thoomas Edison
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hydroelectric power plant
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Sir Joseph Swan
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synthetic fiber
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Ottmar Mergenthaler
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linotype machine
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Sir Charles Parsons
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steam turbine
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Hiram S. Maxim
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automatic machine gun
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Gottlieb Daimler
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internal combustion engine
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William Burroughs
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adding machine
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Karl Benz
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first automobile
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Gottlieeb Daimler
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motorcycle
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John Boyd Dunlop
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pneumatic tire
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Nikola Telsa
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alternating current electric motor and dynamo
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W.L. Judson
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zipper
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George Eastman
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box camera and roll film
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Thomas Edison
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motion picture camera
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Nikola Telsa
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transformer
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Rudolf Diesel
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diseal engine
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John Froelich
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gasoline-powered tractor
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Nikola Telsa
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telsa coil
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Carl Gustaf de Laval
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milking machine
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Guglielmo Marconi
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radio
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Henry Ford
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improved automobile
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K. F. Braun
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cathode ray tube
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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dirigible airship
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Jospeh Lister
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introduced antiseptics to fight germs
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GNP
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the total output of goods and services
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Capitalism
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allows individuals the freedom to follow their economic pursuits as they see fit
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free enterprise
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another name for Capitalism
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Spanish-American War
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the US displayed its new position as a world power by defeating Spain in 1898
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Panama Canal
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greatly expanded American influence in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific
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John D. Rockefeller
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Industial giant in the oil industry
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Andrew Carnegie
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Industial giant in the steel industry
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J.P. Morgan
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Industial giant in banking
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philanthrophy
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comes from two Greek words meaning "love of mankind"
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Adam Smith
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wrote Wealth of nations
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free trade
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trade without government interference
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William Pitt the Younger
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outstanding Bristish Leaader
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Duke of Wellington
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Britians esteemed hero of the Nopoleonic Wars
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Sir Robert Peel
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remembered for founding the London Metropolitan Police force, hence the nicknames "bobbies" or "peelers"
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Victoria
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"I will be good"
longest ruling monarch in England history (64 years)
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Great Exhibition
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the world's first fair
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Prince Albert
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also known as prince consort, Victoria's husband
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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William Gladstone
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he was responsible for much political and social reform during his several years of prime minister
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Helped Queen Victoria after Prince Albert died
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"Prince of Preachers"
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F.B. Meyer
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wrote several devotionals
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Dwight L. Moody
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had tremendous impact as an evangelist
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Ira Sankey
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a songleader who joined Dwight L. Moody
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C.T. Studd
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famous cricket player who spent his life as a missionary to China, India and Africa
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Wilfred Grenfell
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worked with the people of Labrador and Newfoundland
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Robert Morrison and William Burns
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Presbyterian pioneers to China
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J. Hudson Taylor
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founded China Inland Mission
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Boxer Rebellion
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aided by Chinese government, destroyed property beloning to Westerners and killed over 200 people
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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convinced Japan to sign the treaty for trade and diplomatic relations with the US
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Townsend Harris
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first diplomatic representative that America sent to Japan
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Treaty of Amity and Commerce
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permitted missionaries to enter Japan
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Jonathan Goble
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first baptist missionary to Japan
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rickshaw
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similar to a wheelchair but it was pulled around by someone else
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George Muller
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a man of prayer and faith and founded orphanages
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William Booth
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Methodist evangelist, founded the Salvation Army
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YMCA
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they could stay here and get meals and enjoy Bible study, recreation, and good Christian fellowship
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Lord Ashley
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the earl of Shaftesbury
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Florence Nightingale
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she single handedly created the modern nursing profession
also known as the "Lady with the Lamp"
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diplomacy
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strategic negiotation between nations
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Sepoy Rebellion
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serious uprising in British history
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British North America Act
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a self-governing commonwealth
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East India Company
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a powerful trade company which was not officially connected with the government
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India Act
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wrestled away the last vesitges of political authority from the East India Compant and gave full political control of India to the British government
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William Carey
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missionary to India, "father of Modern Missions"
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Amy Carmichael
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worked to rescue young Indian girls from a life of protestitution in the pagan temples and to bring them to Christ
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James Bruce
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explored the source of the Blue Nile
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Mungo Prak
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traced most of the Nigh River, Africa's third longest ruler
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Hugh Clapperton
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became the first European to cross the Sahara Desert and also dicovered Lake Chad
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Alexander Laing
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first European to reach the traing post of Timbuktu, deep in the African Interior
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David Livingstone
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most famous of the explorers of Africa
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Victoria Falls
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Africa's largest waterfall
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Henry Stanley
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an american reporter searched for David Livingstone
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Granville Sharp
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helped former slaves to colonize Freetown in Sierra Leone and the church missionary society established two christian schools for Africans
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Samuel Adjai Crowther
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the first black bishop of the Church of England
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Lott Carey and Colin Teague
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first Christian missionaries to LIberia
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Afrikaners
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African tribes
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boers
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dutch word meaning "farmer"
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Cecil Rhodes
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the British prime minister of the Cape Colony
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Boer War
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after the boer colonies collapsed entirely this war erupted in 1899
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Union of South Africa
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a dominion respresentative government in the tradition of Great Britian
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Austrialian Gold Rush
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greatly escalated the rate of colonization
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British Commonwealth of Nations
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an association acknowledging the British moarch as the symbolic head
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Edward VII
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Victoria's son who took over after she died
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Charles Darwin
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wrote On the Origin of Species and started Darwinism with evolution
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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coined the term agnostic to describe one hwo believes that the existence of God and anything byr material reality cannot be proved by human reasoning and thus is not an important area of human inquiry
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materialism
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the idea that matter is only reality and that everything in the world, including throught, will, and feeling, must be explainged in terms of matter
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socialism
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the idea that government should woen or at least control a nation's economy (including it's businesses, factories, and other means of production) in order to provide for the needs of the people
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utilitarians
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followers of philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Staurt Mill
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Christian Socialists
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a group who wanted benevolent social reform but did not want to take the Bible literally
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Chartists
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organization of laborers
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Charles Kingsley
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a popularizer of Darwinism who wrote sermons, pamphlets, and novels to support the Chartist movement
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modernism
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a philosophy which cut to the very heart of all that had made Britain great.
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