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03/08/2012
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Neolithic Revolution
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Nomadic people learning to farm
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River Valley
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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East, the Nile River in Egypt, the Indus River in India, and the Yellow River, or Huang he, in China.
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Diffusion
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Polytheism
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the belief in many gods.
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Monotheism
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the belief in one god.
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Feudalism
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loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a great lord.
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Manorialism
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the estate of the lord during the middle ages which included one or more villages and the surrounding lands.
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Crusades
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Holy wars
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Guild
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an association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their ecnomic interests.
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5 Pillars of Islam
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Silk Road
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a trade route that linked China to the Middle East. the Chinese cultivated both silkworms and the mulberry trees on which they fed.
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Black Death
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a sickness known as the bubonic plgue, in which he disease spread by fleas on rats.
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Printing Press
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Johann Gutenberg of Mainz Germany printed the first complete edition of the Bible using first printing press and printing inks in the West. 1454
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Renaissance
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began in Italy and is the rebirth of new interest in the culture of ancient Rome.
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Humanism
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an intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance.
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Protestant Reformation
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Offically began in 1517 when Martin Luther, a member of the Catholic clergy, posted his 95 thesis on a church door in Wittenberg, Saxony (now a state within Germany).
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Absolutism
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Colonization
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Mercantilism
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Enlightenment
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Political and social thories that developed primarily in France during the 18th century. John Locke, and englishmen, proposed the radical ideaof natural rights.
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Simon Bolivar
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Charles Darwin
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Karl Marx
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Russian Revolution
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Fascism
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Nazism
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Communism
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Cold War
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Nelson Mandela
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Mao Zedong
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Urbanization
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Suez Canal
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Push Pull Factor
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Natural Rights
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Divine Right of Monarchs
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Social Contract Theory
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Hammurabi's Code
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Justinian's Code
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Magna Carta
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Monarchy
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Republicanism
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Democracy
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Indentured Servants
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House of Burgesses
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Iroquois Confederacy
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Mayflower Compact
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French and Indian War
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Navigation Acts
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Articles of Confederation
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Philadelphia Convention
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Great Compromise
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3/5 Compromise
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Federalists
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Democratic-Republican
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Whigs
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Democrats
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Manifest Destiny
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Mexican-American War
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Missouri Compromise
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Compromise of 1850
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Sectionalism
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Reconstruction
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Imperialism
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Panic of 1893
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Spanish American War
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World War 1
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Fourteen Points
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Isolationism
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World War 2
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Atomic Bomb
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Cold War
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Woodrow Wilson
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Henry Kissinger
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Populism
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Progressive Movement
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Trail of Tears
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Great Migration
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Harlem Renaissance
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New Deal
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Watergate
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War Powers Act
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Federalist Papers
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Free Economic System
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Industrial Revolution
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Tariff
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Anti-Trust Acts
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Bessemer Steel Process
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