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History 102 - Exam 2
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02/23/2011

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Romanticism
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protest against the Enlightenment; promotes idealism; followed their hearts (love and emotions); had self-determination; looked to nature (liked wild nature); didnt like the inflexibility of the Enlightenment, they didn't do anything unusual
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Goethe
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a Romantic; wrote Faust (serve humanity) ; said Romantics must improve civilization
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Walter Scott
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wrote Ivanhoe (novel); takes the title Sir after he wrote Ivanhoe; broke the box of science fiction
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Charles Fourier
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influential French thinker; envisaged a socialist utopia of self sufficient communities; called for the abolition of marriage, free unions based on love and sexual freedom; early proponent of the total emancipation of women
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Sturm and Drang
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early romantics of the 1770s and the 1780s; Storm and Stress; lived lives of tremendous emotional intensity; suicide, duels of death etc.
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Eugene Delacroix
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a French painter; was a romantic master of dramatic, colorful scenes that stirred the emotions
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Caspar David Friedrich
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Germany's greatest Romantic painter; painted Traveler Looking over a Sea of Fog; painting focused on dark silhouetted figures silently contemplating in an eerie landscape
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Victor Hugo
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France's greatest romantic master in both poetry and prose; his powerful novels exemplified the romantic fascination with fantastic characters, strange settings, and human emotions; Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Jacob and Whilhelm Grimm
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were particularly successful at rescuing German fairy tales from oblivion
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Aleksander Pushkin
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greatest of all Russian poets; used his lyric genius to mold the modern literary language of Russia
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Pius IX
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Pope; turned against most modern trends, inlcuding a federation of existing Italian states under his presidency
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Jeremy Bentham
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a radical British philosopher; taught that public problems ought to be dealt with on a rational, scientific basis according to the greatest good for the greatest number
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Edwin Chadwick
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a British official; a good Benthamite; thought disease and death caused poverty and that disease could be prevented by cleaning up the urban environment-his sanitary idea
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miasmatic theory
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belief that peopl contract disease when they breathe the bad odors of decay and putrefying excrement
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Louis Pasteur
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a French chemist who found that the growth of living organisms could be suppressed by heating a beverage-by pasteurization; developed the germ theory
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Robert Koch
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him and his German co-workers developed pure cultures of harmful bacteria and described their life cycles
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Emile Zola
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a French novelist; a realist who was a strict determinist; believed that humans are components of the physical world
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Theodor Herzl
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a Jewish journalist; started Zionism (turn from German nationalism to Jewish)
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Edward Bernstein
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socialist; wrote Evolutionary Socialism
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Jean Jaures
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great socialist leader; formally repudiated revisionist doctrines in order to establish a unified socialist party, but he remained at heart a gradualist
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quinine
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an agent that proved affective in controlling attacks of malaria, which had previously decimated Europeans in the tropics
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J.A. Hobson
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radical English Economist; wrote Imperialism; led a forceful attack in 1902
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Joseph Conrad
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Polish-born novelist; wrote Heart of Darkness, castigated the pure selfishness of Europeans in civilizing Africa
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Rudyard Kipling
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wrote extensively on Anglo-Indian life and was perhaps the most influential British writer of the 1890s
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Tanzimat
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radical reforms to the Ottoman Empire that were designed to remake the empire on a western European model
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Selim III
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energetic sultan; tried to reorganize the army but the janissaries refused ti use any Christian equipment; was executed
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Muhammad Ali
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the Turkish general who established a modernized and virtually independent
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Young Turks
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Idealistic Turkish exiles in Europe and young army officers in Istanbul who seized power in the revolution of 1908 and helped pave the way for the birth of modern secular Turkey
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Jamal al-Din-al-Afghani
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teacher and writer; preached Islamic regeneration and defense against Western/Christian aggression
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Muhammad Abduth
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searched for Muslim rejuvenation and launched the modern Islamic reform movement
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Qasim Amin
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writer who represented those who found inspiration in the West in the late nineteenth century; wrote Liberation of Women
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Usuman dan Fodio
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founded Sokoto caliphate; inspiring Muslim teacher
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Sayyid Said
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energetic imam of Oman; gained most control of the Swahili-speaking East African coast
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Leopold II
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king of Belgium who colonized the Congo and sent expeditions into central Africa
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Muhammad Ahmad
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pious local leader who led a revolt against foreign control of Egypt
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Shaka
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Zulu leader who revolutionized African warfare between 1818 and his death
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Jules Ferry
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French leader who defended imperialism; built an empire
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Great Mutiny
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Great Revolt; terms used by the British and the Indians to describe the last armed resistance to British rule in India, which occured in 1857
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Rammohun Roy
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founded the Hindu College in Calcutta; rose to the top of the native ranks in the British East India Company
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Mihn Mang
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king who outlawed the teaching of Christianity and government executed Catholic missionaries and Vietamese converts
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Jose Rizal
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Chinese merchant; involve in Philippine revolutionaries and contributed to articles in La Solidaridad; wrote 1st novel in Spanish that was fired by nationalism; honored Philippinos
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Hong Xiuquan
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initiated the Taiping Rebellion; a man from South China who had studied for the civil service examinations but didnt pass
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Matthew Perry
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Commodore who steamed into Edo Bay and demanded diplomatic negotiations with the emperor
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Toussaint l'Ouverture
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led a revolution in Haiti that aroused elite fears of black revolt and class warfare
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Crazy Horse
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Our Strange Man; Our Mystery; had about 900 followers; an indian; fought against the white men in the Sioux army
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