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World History Final
Kujawski's final
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History
9th Grade
01/13/2007

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Nationalism
Definition
Bonds that create a nation state
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Enclosures
Definition
Large cultivated lands that are held by wealthy land owners
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Crop Rotation
Definition
Three to four fields that are planted and each year the crop rotates fields
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Industrialization
Definition
The process of developing machine production of requiered goods
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Industrialization
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The process of developing machine production of requiered goods
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Factors of production
Definition
The resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required
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Factories
Definition
Large buildings where wealthy textile merchants set up machinery
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Entrpreneur
Definition
A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business
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Urbanization
Definition
City building and the movement of people to cities
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Middle Class
Definition
Social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers
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Stock
Definition
Certain rights of ownership in a company
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Corporation
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A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally reliable for its debts
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Capitalism
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An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit
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Socialism
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The factors of productin are owned by the public and operated for the welfare of all
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Unions
Definition
Groups of workers that joined together in voluntary labor associations
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Strike
Definition
Refusal to work
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Skepticism
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The idea that nothing can ever be known for certain
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Louis XIV
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Most powrful ruler in French History
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
Definition
Louis XIV's minister of finance who assisted him in achiving his goals of economic, political, and cultural brilliance. He believed in the theory of mercantilism
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War of the Spanish sucession
Definition
After England, the Dutch republic, Austia, Portugal, and several German and Italian states joined together to prevent the union of France and Spain.
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Charles I
Definition
Son of King James I and was always sturggleing for money, against Parliament and started the English Civil WAr
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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
Puritan general who won the English civil war and overthrew King Carls I and established a republican form of goverment but then became a military dictator
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Restoration
Definition
A period when King Charles II rueled and restored monarchy
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Habeus Corpus
Definition
Law that gave every prisoner the right to be brought before a court or judge so that it can be dicided weather imprisonment is illegal
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Glorious Revolution
Definition
Bloodless overthrow of King James II
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Constitutional Monarchy
Definition
Where laws limit the ruler's ppower
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Cabinet
Definition
A group of goverment ministers that acted in the rulers name but in reality represented the major part of parliament
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Delcaration of Independence
Definition
A document written by Thomas Jefferson was frmly based on the ideas of John Locke and The Enlightment
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
Writer of the Declaration of Independence and political leader
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Checks and Balances
Definition
Each branch checking the actions of the other two
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Federal System
Definition
When power is divided between nation and state goverment
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Bill of Rights
Definition
Ten amendments in the constitution
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Old Regime
Definition
The social and political system of Frnace
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Estates
Definition
The tree large social classes
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Louis XVI
Definition
King of France, extravagant spender
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Marie Antoinette
Definition
Queen of France, husand of King Louis XVI
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Estates-General
Definition
an assembly of representativees from all three estates
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National Assembly
Definition
Third estate delegates
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Tennis Court Oath
Definition
A pledge that the national assembly swore to in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
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Great Fear
Definition
A wave of senseless panic throughout France after the storming of the Bastille
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Legislative Assembly
Definition
A body that had the power to create laws and dto approve or reject declarations of war
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Maximilien Robespierre
Definition
A Jocobin leader who gained power
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Reign of Terror
Definition
The period when Robespierre ruled France nearlky as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed
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Congress of Vienna
Definition
A series of meetings in Vienna, they were called to set up policies to achieve goals
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Balance of Power
Definition
No country would be a threat to others
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Legitimacy
Definition
The heredity right of a monarch to rule
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Peninsulares
Definition
In Spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Spain
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Creoles
Definition
In Spanish colonial society, a colonist who was born in Latin America to Spanish parent
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Mulattos
Definition
Persons of mixed European and African ancestry
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Simon Bolivar
Definition
A liberator of Spanish colonies in Latin America
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Jose de San Marin
Definition
Argentinean liberator
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Miguel Hidalgo
Definition
A priest of the small city of Kolores, who took the first step towards independence
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Renaissance
Definition
The movement that started in Italy that caused an explosion of creativity in art, and writing. This term means rebirth
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Humanism
Definition
A renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
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Secular
Definition
Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
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Patron
Definition
A person who supports artists, especially financially
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Vernacular
Definition
The everyday language of people in a region or country
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Utopia
Definition
An imaginary land or an ideal place
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William Shakespeare
Definition
The most famous writer of the Elizabethan Age
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Johann Gutenberg
Definition
Developed a printing press that incorporated a number of techniques in a new way. The process allowed books to be produced more quickly and cheaply
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Reformation
Definition
A 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the Pope's authority
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Lutheran
Definition
A member of a protestant church founded on the teachings of Martin Luther
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Protestant
Definition
A member of a Chrisian church founded on th principles of the reformation
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Peace of Augsburg
Definition
A agreement decalring that t he region of each German state would be dicided by its ruler
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Calvinism
Definition
A body of religious teachings based on the ideas of the riformer John Calvin
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Theocracy
Definition
A goverment controlled by religious leaders
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Presbyterian
Definition
A member of a protestant church governed by elders and founded on the teachings of John Knox
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Catholic Reformation
Definition
A movement in which the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response to the protestant reformation
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Council of Trent
Definition
A meeting of Roman Catholic leaders, called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by the protestant reformers
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Geocentric theory
Definition
the earth centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe.
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Scientific Revolution
Definition
A major change in European thought in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs
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Heliocentric theory
Definition
The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
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Galileo Galilei
Definition
An Italian scientist that built on the new theories about astonomy
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Scientific Method
Definition
A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses
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Issac Newton
Definition
A great English scientist that helped too bring together their breakthroughs under a single theory of motion
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Enlightenment
Definition
An European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society
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John Locke
Definition
A philosopher that held a different, more positive view of human nature. He believed that people could learn by experience and improve themselves
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Voltaire
Definition
He published more than 70 books of political essays, philosophy, and drama
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Montesquieu
Definition
Devoted himself to the study of political liberty
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Rousseau
Definition
A man passionately committed to individual freedom
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Mary Wolstonecraft
Definition
She disagreed with Rousseau that women's education should be secondary to men's
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Artifact
Definition
A human made object that gives hints of the past civilizations
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Culture
Definition
Consists of common traits that make up the livestock for a group of people
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Civilization
Definition
A complex culture with advanced cities specialized workers, compplex institutions, record-keeping, and advanced technology
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Specialization
Definition
The development of skills in a specific kind of work
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Artisan
Definition
A skilled worker who makes goods
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Scribe
Definition
A professional record keeper
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Fertile Crescent
Definition
The rich strip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates River
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Mesopotamia
Definition
A plain in the Fertil Crescent it means land between the river
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City-State
Definition
It consist of city and its surrounding lands
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Dynasty
Definition
A series of rulers from a single family
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Polytheism
Definition
Polytheism is the belief in more than one god
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Oasis
Definition
A small area in the desert watered by spring wells
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Nomad
Definition
A member of a group that has no fixed home and moves from place to place
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Koran
Definition
The sacred book of Islam
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Monotheism
Definition
The belief that there is only one god
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Islam
Definition
A religion based on the teeachings of the prophet Muhammad
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Muslim
Definition
A believer in Islam
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Mosque
Definition
A place of Muslim worship
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Caliph
Definition
The civil and religious ruler of a Muslim state
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Shiite
Definition
One who believes authority passed from the Prophet Muhammad his lineal descendants
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Sunni
Definition
One who accepts authority was passed down through consent of the Muslim community
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Allah
Definition
Arabic word which means God
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Kaaba
Definition
Square building in Mecca believed by Muslims to be the house Ibrahum erected for God and the focus of Muslim worship
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Hegira
Definition
Muhammad's emigration with his followers from Mecca to Medina
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Sharia
Definition
Islamic law
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Hadith
Definition
All records put together
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Dome of the Rock
Definition
A building in Jerusalem where Abraham is said to nearly have sacrificed his son
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Who do Hinduism believers worship
Definition
Vishnu=protector, Siva=destroyer, Brahma=creator
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What are Hinduism's Basic Beliefs
Definition
Reincarnation and Karma
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Who is the founder of Buddhism
Definition
Siddhartha Gautama
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What belief believes in Yin and Yang and nature
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Daoism
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Filial Piet
Definition
Respect for elders and is Confucianism
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