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06/02/2007

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Term
Divine Right of Kings
Definition
God controls/talks to King & King controls/talks to his people
Term
Oliver Cromwell
Definition
In English Monarchy-

was a general for the Puritans in the English Civil War

tore up constitution and ruled as a military dictator
Term
Absolute Monarchy
Definition
ruler has absolute power over subjects
Term
Limited Monarchy
Definition
monarch with regulations set by a parliament and constitution
Term
James I
Definition
inherited Elizabeth I's reign

thought he has absolute authority to rule
Term
Charles I
Definition
after James I

signed Petition of Rights, which limited his power, but ignored it and was executed
Term
Charles II
Definition
ruled during the Restoration of England
Term
James II
Definition
flaunted Catholisism and was overthrown in Glorious Revolution
Term
Glorious Revolution
Definition
bloodless overthrow of a king-James II
Term
Parliament
Definition
body of representation, makes laws for England
Term
Versailles
Definition
King Louis XIV of France's palace-had nobles waiting on him, making them dependent on him
Term
King Louis XIV of France
Definition
*lived in Versailles
*cancelled Edict of Nantes-made artisans flee France
*went to war
*left France in financial ruin
Term
Edict of Nantes
Definition
declaration of religious freedom for Huguenots
Term
Huguenots
Definition
French Calvinists who were artisans

had to flee when King Louis XIV cancelled the Edict of Nantes
Term
Geocentric Theory
Definition
earth is center of solar system
Term
Heliocentric Theory
Definition
sun is center of universe
Term
Copernicus
Definition
1st to believe sun is center of universe
Term
Galileo
Definition
built really good telescope
founded law of pendulum
Term
Newton
Definition
put every scientists ideas together and made law of gravity
Term
Harvey
Definition
studied heart and blood pumping
Term
Vesalius
Definition
proved human anatomy is not like that of pigs/animals
Term
Locke
Definition
*everyone is born the same and shaped by experieriences
*everyone has rights to life, liberty, and ownership of property and if they dont have it, revolt
Term
Voltaire
Definition
*freedom of speech, religion, and press
*believed in Enlightened Despotism- absolute monarch who uses power for good
Term
Diderot
Definition
wrote 1st encyclopedia
Term
Rousseau
Definition
*thought new technology has made man unhappy and we need to go back to simplier times
*thought children need to be raised w/o adult tensions and be allowed to decide their own lives
Term
Hobbes
Definition
believed people are bad by nature and need an absolute ruler to control them
Term
Beccaria
Definition
spoke out against torturing witnesses and suspects, irregular trial proceedings, and cruel and arbitrary punishment
Term
Montesquieu
Definition
*Seperation of powers-legislative, judicial, and executive branches w/ checks and balances
Term
Age of Reason
Definition
people questioned ideas that were "known facts" and used science to back it up
Term
Medieval VS Englightenment
Definition
Old:
*relied on ancient greeks
*geocentric theory
*bible/god=source of knowledge

New:
*rely on reason
*Heliocentric theory
*knowledge comes from thinking, reasoning, and science
Term
Philosophes
Definition
french thinkers during Enlightenment
Term
Social Contract
Definition
Rousseau's book about how man was happiest at a simpler, easier time
Term
Scientific Method
Definition
new method during Enlightenment of looking at nature
*hypothesis
*experiment
*results
*draw conclusions
Term
Line of Demarcation
Definition
imaginary line between Spanish and Portuguese land in the americas.
to the west=spain
east=portugal
Term
Treaty of Tordesillas
Definition
treaty to honor new, more-west Line of Demarcation suggested by Portugal (they got Brazil.)
Term
Motives of Exploration
Definition
glory, god and gold
Term
The Mission Video
Definition
priest goes to tribe and tries to convert them to catholisism but slave traders didnt like it because it gives slaves souls and then they cant sell/buy them
Term
Effects of Exploration
Definition
*cultural exchange of language, food, animals, and technology
*tensions between countries over "discoveries"
*tensions between missonaries and rulers
*colonial administrators representing own interests
Term
Cortez
Definition
conquistador who conquered aztecs
Term
Pizarro
Definition
conquistador who conquered incas
Term
Mestizo
Definition
mix of Euro and native indian
Term
Triangular Trade
Definition
Euro go to Africa for slaves, slaves to America, sugar from slaves to Euro
Term
Mulatto
Definition
mix Euro and black
Term
Aztecs and Incas
Definition
both civilizations conquered by spain
Term
Jesuits
Definition
group of priests who went on missionaries
Term
1st 2nd and 3rd estates
Definition
1st-clergy
2nd-rich nobles
3rd-three groups:
bourgeoisie
city workers
peasants
Term
estates general
(France)
Definition
representatives from all 3 estates in france
Term
old regime
Definition
system of feudalism from middle ages
Term
bastille
Definition
prison that was a symbol of feudalism

torn down by people of france
Term
Great Fear
Definition
peasants tear down manor houses because they want change in France's taxing situation
Term
Emigres
Definition
fled from France because of opposition to or fear of the revolution
Term
wants of 3rd estate (each group)
Definition
bourgeoisie-want govt positions
city workers-better jobs, higher wage
peasants-land, less taxes, bread
Term
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Definition
national assembly wrote...
*class distinctions are abolished
*all men equal
*sovereignity belongs to people/nation
Term
jacobins
Definition
group that made public speeches to remove king and establish republic in france and wrote radical newspapers
Term
sans culottes
Definition
group of radical city workers who wanted greater voice in govt, lower food prices, and end to food shortages
Term
committee of public safety
Definition
group that decides who are enemies to france
Term
robespierre
Definition
*leader of france after Louis XVI, *reign of terror happens under him
*demanded increased freedom of press
*shared power w/ national assembly
*leader in revolution in france
*eventually was beheaded because the national assembly found out that even they werent safe (robespierre might behead them for not staying true to rev. ideas)
Term
reign of terror
Definition
robespierre ordered many people to get beheaded...
peasants(didnt like beheading of king), priests(didnt like losing power), rival leaders (stirring up rebellion)
Term
republic
Definition
representatives serve and people decide what happens in the govt
Term
directory
Definition
established after robespierre is beheaded, oligarchy of 5 men
Term
guillotine
Definition
beheading machine
Term
political spectrum
Definition
revolution, reform, status quo

radical, liberal, moderate, conservative, reactionary
Term
components of a revolution
Definition
*personalization
*perception of the problem and solution
*revolutionary leadership
*weak govt
*great inequality
Term
philosophes influence on rev.
Definition
inspired french rev., especially Locke(revolting if you dont have rights)
Term
results of rev.
Definition
1.more liberty-end to absolute monarchy
2.more equality
3.bourgeoisie improved system of administration
4.less political power of church
5.total warfare introduced
6.nationalism introduced
Term
causes of french rev.
Definition
*philosophes inspire poor to revolt
*unfair treatment of people
*louis XVI was bad leader
*inequality and poverty between estates
*peasants pay most taxes
*marie antoinnette buys and gambles-wasting money
Term
slogan of french rev
Definition
liberty, equality, fraturnity
Term
napoleon
Definition
*overthrows govt
*organizes govt w/ code napoleon
*gets france into too many wars (russia)
Term
code napoleon
Definition
*deals a lot w/ property and family
*women lose many rights
*allows a lot of freedom of religion and speech
Term
coup de tat
Definition
overthrowing govt
Term
7 reasons I.R. began in Great Britian
Definition
1.labor supply
2.natural resources
3.investment goods
4.entrepreneur
5.transportation
6.markets
7.govt support
Term
enclosure movement
Definition
farmers began fencing off their land so they could tell whose was whose
Term
domestic/factory systems
Definition
Domestic:
*whole families worked together on farming or making wool
*no firing
*no stress
*didnt make as much goods
*slower
*goods cost more

Factory:
*more efficient
*many strangers work in factories
*faster, cheaper
*kids get beat, etc
Term
inventors/inventions
Definition
jethro tull-seed drill
watt-steam engine
eli whitney-cotton gin
Term
urbanization
Definition
moving into more factories
Term
muckrakers
Definition
wrote about injustices during I.R.
Term
upton sinclair
Definition
wrote The Jungle-about meat industry
Term
upton sinclair
Definition
wrote The Jungle-about meat industry
Term
emmeline pankhurst
Definition
protested for women's rights and founded Womens Social and Political Union
Term
carrie nation
Definition
woman who wanted prohibition
Term
susan b. anthony
Definition
worked for womens' suffrage
Term
suffrage
Definition
women's right to vote
Term
traditional vs command vs market economies
Definition
traditional-all economic decisions based on past,slow to change

market-relies on supply and demand, what we have

command-ec. decisions are made by commanders
Term
adam smith
Definition
capitalist who believed in market economy
Term
lassez faire
Definition
sepearation of business and state
Term
entreprenuer principles
Definition
1. entrepreneurs should be free to run their business the way that will bring the most profit
2. what is good for the entrepreneur is good for everyone
Term
utopia
Definition
ideal society
Term
labor unions
Definition
group of workers that build rights
Term
Capitalism VS Socialism
Definition
Capitalism:
*Self Interest
*Private Property
*Competition
*Individualism

Socialism:
*Public Ownership
*Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
*Controlled Economy
*Collectivism
Term
karl marx
Definition
developed marxism
Term
marxism
Definition
wrote communist manifesto
step 1)Socialism-classless society
Step 2)communism-no govt, people work for pleasure of working
Term
communism
Definition
*no govt
*people work for pleasure of working
Term
marx's view of history
Definition
series of struggles between the exploited (have-nots) and the exploiters (haves)
Term
dictatorship of the proletariat
Definition
workers control govt and means of production
Term
democracy/dictatorship
Definition
democracy:
people govern themselves either directly or through reps

dictatorship:
one person or small has absolute power
Term
imperialism
Definition
policy of taking over other lands and people
Term
reasons for empire building
Definition
1.power and prestige
2.population pressures (not enough space for pop.)
3.economic growth(gain markets)
4.religion (spread it)
5.security (buffer zones)
6.superiority

acronym:super security really populates power in econ
Term
direct VS indirect rule
Definition
direct:
*foreign control of all levels of govt
*used assimilation and paternalism

indirect:
*used native officials to handle day-to-day tasks
*had legislative assemblies
Term
assimilation
Definition
the ruling country will transform their colony into one similar to theirs
Term
paternalism
Definition
policy used to govern lands (in a fatherly way)
Term
countries not colonized (Africa)
Definition
ethiopia and liberia
Term
+ and - of imperialism (Africa)
Definition
+:
*technology came
*new markets for europeans
*common language acted as uniting force
*africans went to european schools
*better med. (hospitals)

-:
*cultural identity is lost
*I.R. was going on in english, so natural resources and profit was taken from africa, so africa couldnt develop themselves
*europeans thought natives were ungrateful, lazy jerks
*paternalism happened
*social darwinism happened
*natives have to pay hut taxes
Term
nationalism
Definition
extreme pride for country
Term
social darwinism
Definition
treating natives as inferior and as if their genes make them that way so europeans only "breed" with the best (not natives) so the natives die out
Term
great trek
Definition
dutch settlers in africa march north from cape colony (bottom tip of africa) and they went NORTH!

yay north!
Term
anglo-boer war
Definition
*war between GB and afrikaners in south africa
*afrikaners use gorilla warfare
*afrikaners lose
Term
apartheid
Definition
separating whites from everyone else (blacks, asians, coloreds)
Term
homeland/pass books
Definition
south african passports that they always needed w/ them to say in their homelands (where they could/could not go)
Term
power of one video
Definition
*afrikaners hate english (love hitler because he hate english too)
*afrikaners go to jail for stuff they usually didnt do and are treated POORLY
Term
white man's burden (africa)
Definition
white men thought blacks were white man's burden
Term
Mapungubwe, zimbabwe (ancient african civilizations)
Definition
many white believe blacks were too primitive to have been in africa first even though these places have artifacts proving africans were there first
Term
swahili trading?
(africa)
Definition
swahili were middle men between arabs and other african lands
Term
Armenian Genocide
Definition
ottoman empire killed armenians
Term
Ukraine genocide
Definition
stalin killed ukraines
Term
Cambodia genocide
Definition
Khmer Rouge (cambodian communists) kill middle/educated classes
Term
Yugoslavia Genocide
Definition
bosnian serb troops kill bosnian muslims (ethnic cleansing)
Term
rwanda genocide
Definition
tutsi kill hutu
Term
sudan genocide
Definition
northern arab muslims kill black africans
Term
otto von bismarck (WWI)
Definition
*chancellor to wilhelm I
*practiced realpolitik
*blood and iron policy-conquers through war and industry
Term
realpolitik (WWI)
Definition
foreign policy that uses any means necessary to acheive goals that are best for country
Term
kaiser
Definition
german emporer
Term
franco-prussian war (WWI)
Definition
*false telegram sent by bismarck to prussia so they would declare war
*france loses war
*france gives up borders of alsace-lorainne and pay germans a lotta mula ($ cha-ching)
*led to unification of germany
Term
alsace-lorraine (WWI)
Definition
inbetween france and germany
both countries wanted it
Term
effects of unified germany (WWI)
Definition
*wilhelm I is crowned kaiser
*germany becomes nationalistic
*best army
*huge population
*huge industrial base
Term
MAIN causes of WWI
Definition
Militarism-countries build up armies and weapons
Alliances-triple entente and triple alliance
Imperialism-disputes over colonies
Nationalism-countries' pride in jepordy
Term
balkan region (WWI)
Definition
[image] tensions between many races here and everyone wanted the land
Term
triple alliance (WWI)
Definition
germany, austria hungary, italy
Term
triple entente (WWI)
Definition
russia, GB, Fr.
Term
francis ferdinand
Definition
*austrian archduke who was assasinated by a serbian nationalist
*assasination started WWI
Term
ultimatum (WWI)
Definition
confident in germany's support, austria sent serbia a list of demands
*wanted no more anti-austrian activities
*wanted austrian officials to investigate the archduke's murder

*serbs agreed to all but investigation so austria attacked
Term
central powers (WWI)
Definition
germany, A-H, bulgaria, ottoman empire
Term
allied powers (WWI)
Definition
russia, france, GB, italy, portugal, romania, serbia, greece, montenegro
Term
trench warfare (WWI)
Definition
war that was in trenches and "no mans land" was inbetween trenches
Term
stalemate (WWI)
Definition
deadlock in the war
*when germany was winning until fr. troops got ahold of germ. moves/plans
Term
total warfare (WWI)
Definition
when whole countries are involved in war (everything is about the war and everything goes to the war-resources, people, every kind of military)
Term
U.S. entry into WWI
Definition
*U.S. economically supported allies
*german U-boat sinks Lusitania (cruise ship) and killed a buncha americans so america was like, "THIS IS WAR!" and thats how they went into the war
*zimmerman telegram
Term
zimmerman telegram
Definition
*WWI
*british intercepted it
*germ. sent it to mexico saying mexico could have bits of the U.S. if they join the central powers
Term
unrestricted submarine warfare
Definition
german naval policy to sink any ship that may be allies
Term
propaganda (wwI)
Definition
one-sided information to support war
Term
armistice
Definition
the end of fighting in WWI
Term
fourteen points
Definition
woodrow wilson's plan after WWI

*end to secret treaties
*freedom of seas
*free trade
*reduced national armies and navies
*adjust colonies to suit the colonies better
Term
league of nations
Definition
organization set up after WWI to keep peace among nations
*germany and russia excluded
Term
reparations
Definition
money for damage in war
Term
isolationism
Definition
a country separating itself (especially in war times, staying neutral)
Term
self-determination
Definition
freedom of people to decide under what form of goct they wish to live
Term
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Definition
*lenin signed
*pulled russia out of WWI
Term
stalin
Definition
*takes over russian govt after lenin
*had 5 year plan as economic plan and collectivization was agricultural plan
*killed a lot of people in Ukraine genocide
Term
stalin's 5 year plan
Definition
*stalin's economic plan to increase industry and national defense
*people faced food and other goods shortages
Term
stalin's collectivization
Definition
stalin's agricultural plan to take away everyone's individual farms and make farms where many families and people worked together
Term
kulaks
Definition
*russian wealthier peasants who resisted collectivization during russian rev. and stalin often killed them for it
Term
USSR (soviet union)
Definition
*Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
*several countries were taken over by russia and became this
*capital in Moscow
Term
lenin
Definition
*russian ruler after kerensky and the temporary gov't and before stalin
*made New Economic Plan and USSR
*ruled during civil war in russia
*pulled russia out of WWI
*is loved and honored by russia
Term
bolsheviks
Definition
*radical Marxist group in russia who did anything to achieve their goals
*lenin was leader
*were the Red Army in the russian civil war and won
Term
lenin's slogan
Definition
peace, land, and bread
Term
bolshevik revolution
Definition
*bolsheviks storm the winter palace and forced kerensky to flee, putting lenin in power
Term
trotsky
Definition
leader of red army during russian civil war
Term
lenin's NEP
Definition
New Economic Plan:
*russia had a lack of economic problems-lack of industry and trade- so lenin made this plan, a form of small-scale capitalism
Term
czar/tsar
Definition
russian ruler
Term
Nicolas II
Definition
*russian ruler who had total power of russia when it was weak
*russia had lost russo-japanese war
*tried to industrialize too fast
*unprepared going into WWI
*forced to abdicate throne because he was a weak leader

*ruled during russo-japanese war, bloody sunday massacre, WWI, and made duma
Term
Russo-Japanese War
Definition
war between russia and japan and russians lost-led to unrest/revolt in russia
Term
bloody sunday massacre
Definition
RUSSIA
workers went to winter palace to merely talk to the czar nicholas II and were killed by his guards
Term
march 1917 revolution
Definition
women led a citywide strike in russia because of shortage of fuel and food that led to nicholas II abdicating his throne
Term
provisional gov't/kerensky
Definition
temporary gov't with kerensky as leader that was set up to take the place of Czar Nicholas II after he abdicated the throne
Term
stalin's childhood
Definition
had abusive father
Term
lenin's feelings toward stalin
Definition
liked him at first for being a man of action but later didnt trust him
Term
what russian soldiers did in response to failure in WWI
Definition
revolted
Term
stalin and bolsheviks feelings toward religion
Definition
wanted to eliminate it
Term
gulag
Definition
russian labor camp during stalin's reign
Term
soviet propaganda portrayed stalin as a....
Definition
savior/secular god
Term
stalin's Great Purge
Definition
killed educated classes, artisans, old bolsheviks
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