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HIEU 202
Saxon western civilization
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/08/2011

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Laissez-Faire 1776
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Adam Smith
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Gentry
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Local rulers of english countryside
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Principia
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Regulated machine operating according to universial laws
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Galileo
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Planets are not made up of a perfect substance; had earthquakes; systematic observations of heaven by telescope
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Thomas Kuhn
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Author - without paradigm shift there are no scientific advances
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Da Vinci
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Understanding nature of things - math
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A series of noble revolts called The Fronde represented 
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french citizens looking for stability
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English civil war was between
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cavaliers vs. roundheads
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English civil war was about all of the following except
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Mercantilism
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Birthing danger #1
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Puerperal fever
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Montesquieu's The spirit of the laws
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Maintaining balance among various branches of government
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Rousseau's Social Contract
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freedom achieved by forcing people to follow "general will" (what is best for everyone)
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Jacques Bouseuet's Politics "Drawn from very words of Holy Scripture"
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was the fundamental statement of 17th century divine right
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Deism 
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Based on Newtonian world - Deism is a machine with God as its mechanic
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Overall effect of scientific revolution on the argument about woman in the child-bearing process was to 
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generate facts about difference between men and women to prove male dominance
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Francis Bacon
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Experimental observation
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Minister's reaction:
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condemnation
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Tycho Brahe
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astronomy - uraniborg castle - copenhagen, denmark
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Turned priests into employees
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Swiss Sonderbund War 1848
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conflict gave liberals throughout europe opportunity to defeat conservative government in their countries
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Prior to Austria war, Bismarc promised ______ to Italy in return for ________ _______
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Venetia; Italian support
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Prussia eliminated tariffs in 1818
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Economic boom
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Reign of Terror
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instituted to save the revolution
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The Great Fear
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French National Assembly abolished feudalism august 1789
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Conservative states were greatly threatened by this
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Liberalism
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Zollverein led to all of the following:
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marginalization of austria in German affairs, Prussia dominant power, German princes gaining income parliament cannot control.
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August 4th 1789
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Prohibition of sale of public offices, abolition of manorial courts, end of feudal servitude
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Factory work in Britain
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Factory discipline, Child and female labor, high wages and good benefits
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Cashiers
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1789 statements of grievances were notebooks that rejected royal absolutism and called for french parliament
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in 1864 Prussia initiated war with _____
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Denmark
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Peninsular campaign in Spain
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France was defeated
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Jethro Tull
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invented the seed drill used for modern farming
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National convention voted to abolish monarchy in 1792
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French revolution crushed aristocracy, church, monarchy
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British aristocracy participate in the Industrial revolution by practicing primogeniture which: 
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preserved capital, helped establish banks that funded early industrialists, developed mines and canals to exploit resources on their lands
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Franco-Prussian war led to
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France paying a war indeminty to Germany, German occupation of northeast France, the affirmation that germany was the most powerful country in Europe
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Most important reason for the slow pace of prussian unification (during 1860-70s) was so that the
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new german nation would be prussia writ large
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Napoleon 
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born into corsican nobility, created aristocracy based on merit, invaded egypt and abandoned army
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zollverein did the following:
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created broad german economic market, citizens thought of themselves as germans, led to a strong economic foundation.
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July 14th 1789
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The bastille contained a great amount of arms and gunpowder; storming of the bastille, no political prisoners, only heinous aristocrat offenders
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The main purpose of centralized state bureaucracy napoleon strengthened was 
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the french military
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Louis XVI's measures to bring state finances under control:
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assembly of notables tax French nobility, forcing parliament of Paris to agree to an edict revising french taxation system, necker (consultant banker) to check national finances
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German wars of unification
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Danish war 1864, Prussian war (1866), Franco-Prussian war (1870-1)
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