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Human Systems
World History Course
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2008

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Who wrote Novum Organum?
Definition
Francis Bacon
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Who wrote On the Revolutions of Heavenly Orbs?
Definition
Copernicus
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Who wrote The Starry Messenger?
Definition
Galileo
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Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
Definition
Isaac Newton
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Who wrote the Discourse on Method?
Definition
Descartes
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Who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?
Definition
Adam Smith
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Who wrote the Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation?
Definition
Jeremy Benthem
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Willaim II
Definition
Last German Emporer and King of Prussia. Had problems with Otto von Bismark (the iron chancellor)
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utopian socialism
Definition
Introduced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto
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solidarity
Definition
"a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the then Lenin Shipyards, and originally led by Lech Wa??sa. It was the first non-communist trade union in a communist country. In the 1980s it constituted a broad anti-communist social movement."
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Royal Society of London
Definition
"The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and claims to be the oldest such society still in existence."
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Red Guards
Definition
"were a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong between 1966 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution."
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
"of 1935 were denaturalization laws passed in Nazi Germany. They used a pseudoscientific basis for racial discrimination against Jewish people. Four German grandparents (white circles on the chart) were of ""German blood"", while people were classified as Jews if they descended from three or four Jewish grandparents (black circles in top row right). A person with one or two Jewish grandparents was a Mischling, a crossbreed, of ""mixed blood""."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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"a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. Gorbachev's attempts at reform — perestroika and glasnost —"
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Lech Walesa
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a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity
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Jomo Kenyatta
Definition
first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.
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Friedrich Engels
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"a German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848)."
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Frederick Taylor
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an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency.
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"invisible hand"

Definition
everyone should attempt to maximize profits and harmony - will result for social structure
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Adam Smith
Definition

wrote: Wealth of Nations

theory of "invisible hand"

free market based on selfish interest, wealth trickles down to the welfare of all

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Theories of Imperialism
Definition

Conservative- Protects social order, economic viability, and political stability in developed countries. Through techno, modernization, infrastructure

Liberal- cause economic imbalance; income inequality yields under consumption

Marxist- divide rich and poor; rich would fight over poor countries

Political- A process of international balance of power; the means by which nations try to achieve a favorable change in the status quo

 

Social-psychological- build warrior class to defend, but then ultimately take power

 

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Andrew Ure
Definition

his research influenced the writing of Frankenstein defended working conditions

during the Industrial Revolution and disliked the darker side of capitalism
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anti-semitism
Definition
mostly against Jews. Linked Jewish with capitalism conspiracy
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Bay of Pigs
Definition
our "planned attack" on Cuba. Locals rebel, but Castro knew and saved air force.
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Berlin Blockade
Definition
cold war blockade of Berlin, we airlift supplies in for a year
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Boer War
Definition
Brittan and Afrikaners in Southern Africa; Brittan wasted a lot of resources to win war; recognized vulnerability
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Boris Yeltsin
Definition
denounced communist party in Russia
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Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Definition
Russia gave up land and resources to German to get them out of their hair
so they could have revolution
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capitalism
Definition
basic production facilities - land capitol, ships - are privately owned, economic activity is organized through the relationships between buyers and sellers
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Cartesian Dualism
Definition
essential separation between mind (active in the search) and matter (the
object of the search) separated quality (joy, sound, color) from essence
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Chinese Civil War
Definition
CCP vs. Nationalists
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East India Company
Definition
“the company created British India; founded Hong Kong and Singapore;
caused the Boston Tea Party; etc
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Erich Honecher
Definition
German Democratic Republic (GDR), in power since 1961; suppressed all reform
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Fascism
Definition
authoritarian = order over liberty; strong military, nationalist = exclusionary; primordial, idealist, the plan to create a new, modern, secular culture, anti-modern, dynamic
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Five Year Plan
Definition
Stalin. Heavy industrialization and catching up of military – no consumer
goods. State confiscated farms and machinery, terror and mobilization, socialist regime realism, heavy propaganda combined with draconian repression
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Francis Bacon
Definition
wrote Novum Organum. "a new method" he focused on the problem of knowledge: epistemology. How do we know what we know?
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Gavrilo Princip
Definition
Shot Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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glasnost
Definition
needed the support of the country, called for with glasnost (openness or candor) in the media and culture: freedom to criticize the system, willingness to reexamine past mistakes
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Great Leap Forward
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to get china more industrialized, but produced bad steel; separated ties to USSR
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Grigori Rasputin
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Evil monk of Nicolas II. Also was stabbed and shot a couple of times, didn't die for a long time.
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Hundred Flowers Campaign
Definition
backfire on Mao. People were allowed to speak mind. industrial revolutions
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Jeremy Bentham
Definition
advanced utilitarianism as the basis for reform; scientifically ascertain what
was morally justifiable by applying the principle of utility
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
"man of steel" becomes Lenin's "mouthpiece" and starts to take over; purges lots of people; five year plan - heavy industrialization
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kristallnacht
Definition
"night of broken glass" Nov. 1938 Nazis destroy tons of Jewish businesses
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Leon Trotsky
Definition
major opponent of Stalin. Murdered on Stalin’s orders in 1940
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Luddism
Definition
1811, a secret organization led by a mysterious “king” Ned Ludd of Sherwood Forest.
Their targets were the machines which were causing falling wages and unemployment. Letters were sent to machine owners, demanding their removal. The Una bomber was a Luddite.
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Mao Zedong
Definition
undisputed supreme leader of superhuman proportions and power, he is less
committee oriented and more dictatorial. Claimed the t’ien ming, or Mandate of Heaven. Aggressive campaign against political opponents, executed 800,000 “class enemies” He was animated by five loves, Dies in 1976
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Marshall Plan
Definition
massive aid with no stings in order to shore up democracy, allied action, we put in billions of dollars into west Berlin to get it going again
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Marxism
Definition
income inequalities lead to under consumption, state complicit with inequity, unable and unwilling to rectify problem
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Munich Conference
Definition
Czechoslovakia lost north and west borders/ defenses/ resources
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Mussolini
Definition
Founds Fascist party in Italy 1919 and becomes dictator
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National Socialism
Definition
1930s Nazis party becomes very popular
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Nazi science
Definition
rejected Einstein
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
Definition
buy more time before war, mutually divide Poland, so no 2 front war
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Operation Barbarossa
Definition
Germans declare war on Russia, eliminate 50 million people/jews
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perestroika
Definition
restructuring of the nation's economy and political system
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pre-WW1 anxieties
Definition
assassinations, Brittan overstretched, Russia crumbing
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Rudyard Kipling
Definition
White man's burden poem
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Russo-Japanese War
Definition
first war fought over industrialism, first won by non white peoples and
between great powers, struggle over Manchurain control
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scholasticism
Definition
in the scientific revolution; questions came out of the answers; rationalist and deductive: start with definitions and general propositions and then discover what further knowledge could be logically deduced from the accepted definitions.
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scientism
Definition
methods of naturals sciences applied to human behavior; science can generate
specific principles which can be sued to organize society on a rational basis; faith in science can serve as a comprehensive belief system that gives meaning to life
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Social Darwinism
Definition
genetic cleansing in order to survive, which eliminates moral or legal
criminality (Italy’s “subhumans” were Africans)
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Socialist man
Definition
the big brother role; also responsible for others around him; state before himself
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Sputnik
Definition
first satellite by soviets frightened us. race to the moon!
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Thomas Malthus
Definition

population keeps wages low; increased wages would result in larger families and subsequently larger working class and thus reduced wages law of population: food supply will increase arithmetically while population will increase geometrically, leading to an ever-increasing discrepancy…poverty, starvation

 

his recommendation: push later marriages and sexual abstinence 

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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
Germany lost colonies, fleet, limit army, reparations, and war guilt post WW1
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underconsumption
Definition
excess of product, inequity of moneys = glut of product, which threatened
national debt plus exacerbated dissatisfactions of the lower class
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Vaclav Havel
Definition
Playwright who had a role in Czechoslovakia revolution
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Vichy France
Definition
after France collapses in WW2, non-occupied zone
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Vladimir Lenin
Definition
Bolshevik party, calls for a revolution
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
reaction to NATO; union of eastern countries aka soviet
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Weimar Republic
Definition
German government; president has absolute authority in crisis
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