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adamantly
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stubbornly
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s'occuper
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concerning herself with
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Daoism
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religio-philosophical system of ancient China
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caliph
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Political, religious and militaristic leader of Islam
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Quran (Koran)
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Holy book of Islam
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Athens
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Democratic state. World's first democracy (women & slaves not allowed to participate). Debt caused a huge gap between rich & poor. Solon - outlawed debt slavery. Pericles. Golden Age of Athens. Socrates. Socratic Method. Plato was his student - impacted formation of the Republic in Rome. Aristotle:Rejected Plato's teachings, believed people could use their senses to answer questions of the world
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Adam Smith
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established liberal economics (Wealth of Nations, 1776); argued that government should avoid regulation of economy in favor of the operation of market forces-added more principles of economic behavior
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Tula
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capital of the Toltec people, established around 968 CE
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Siberia
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The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk, a region of central and eastern Russia, stretching from the Ural mountains to the pacific ocean, known for its mineral resources and for being a place of political exile
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Mughal Empire trade economy
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through cotton textile
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Chiang Kai-shek
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established autocratic government on island of Taiwan; Chinese nationalist
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Adel Nasser
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Egypt President, Nationalizes Suez Canal
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William McKinley
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25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist
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Sikhs
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Nonviolent religous group that blended Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism User-contributed
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Hetshepsut
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served as eregent her young stepson and soon claimed the royal title for herself
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Dardanelles
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a straight connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara
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Contras
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Supported by US both legally and illegally - anti-revollutionaries in Nicaragua - fought the Sandinistas (communist leaning)
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warsaw pact
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military alliance, in which albania, bulgaria, czechoslovakia, east germany, hungary, poland, romania, and the soviet union agreed to provide mutual assistance
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Han
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in Japan, territory or feudal estate controlled by a daimyo under the Tokugawa shogunate
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Hulegu
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Ruler of Ilkhan Khanate; grandson of Chinggis Khan; responsible for capture and destruction of Baghdad
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Capital
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The money and equipment needed to engage in industrialization
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Congress of Vienna
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conservative, reactionary meeting, led by prince metternich, restore europe to prerevolution time
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Vasco da Gama
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goes to India around Africa
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Mesopotamia
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Circa 5000 BCE. Located between Tigris & Euphrates Rivers. First cities - Ur & Babylon. Cuneiform. Polytheistic. Ziggurats. City-state type of government. Hammurabi's Code
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max weber
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German sociologist that regarded the development of rational social orders as humanity's greatest achievement. Saw bureaucratization (the process whereby labor is divided into an organized community and individuals acquire a sense of personal identity by finding roles for themselves in large systems) as the driving force in modern society.
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Sun Yat-Sen
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The first great revolutionary leader in 20th century China who founded the ALliance League in 1905. The League aimed to overthrow the Qing to make china a republic, get rid of foreign powers and distribute land to peasants. He created the three principles of the people, Nationalism, Socialism and Democracy. After the Revolution, he returned from overseas to lead china, however failed to leaed successfully. He handed power to Yuan Shikai.
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Eugene O'Neill
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Playwright who won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for his tragic live-like dramas
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Persian Wars
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a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC
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Kievan Russia
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early east Slavic state, dominated by city of kiev
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Battle of Lepanto
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Phillip's success. Crushes the turk navy in the medit.
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Mixed Government
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"depended on the balance of interests represented by the monarchy in the Crown, the aristocracy in the House of Lords, and the people in the House of Commons"
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Charles I
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King of England and Scotland who started the power struggle between Parliament and himself which started the English Civil War.
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moldboard
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heavy plow introduced into n europe in middle ages
plowed deeper soils, technology innovation in agriculture
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"legitimate trade"
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-Exports from Africa in the 19th century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade
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Manumission
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A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave
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The term ________ empire came to refer to the eastern half of the Roman Empire
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Byzantine
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Peacock Throne
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he magnificent throne built by Shah Jahan and was second of his artistic works, behind the Taj Mahal.
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Why did Genghis Khan send troops in Persia in 1219?
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encomienda system
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priviledge given by Spain to Spanish settlers in the Americas which allowed to control the lands and people of a certain territory
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slavery vs. serfdom
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were not property themselves and could not be sold apart from the land which they worked. Serfdom is the forced labour of serfs, on the fields of the privileged land owners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields.
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March on Rome
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the coup d'état by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922.
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Reform Bill of 1832
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Legislation passed in Great Britain that extended the vote to most members of the middle class; failed to produce democracy in Britain
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Second Continental Congress
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Convened in May 1775, the Congress opposed the drastic move toward complete independence from Britain. In an effort to reach a reconciliation, the Congress offered peace under the conditions that there be a cease-fire in Boston, that the Coercive Acts be repealed, and that negotiations begin immediately. King George III rejected the petition.
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Gamal Abdul Nasser
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took power after military coup in Egypt; enacted land reforms; used state resources to reduce unemployment; his economic policy: -land reform: limits on ownership of land, excess lands were seized and redistributed to peasants -education was state financed through college made available to Egyptians -cost of basic food staples decreased -state controlled development schemes were introduced (not a slave to foreign investment)
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Hudson River School
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Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River
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hierarchy
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order in the classes and statuses in a society; organized by rank
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Who was the Chinese admiral who made seven journeys of exploration?
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Zheng He
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the Lydians and coinage
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ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, first to mint coins.
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Treaty of Nerchinsk
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in 1689, it was the first treaty between russia and china. the russians gave up the area south of the amur river and east of the mouth of the amur river but kept the area between the amur river and lake baikal in exchange for permission to trade with china and china's recognition of the russian empire
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problems of rural environment in third world countries
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deforestation, overgrazing, soil depletion, industrial pollutants
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Chavin Civilization
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Circa 850 BCE - 250 BCE. First Andean civilization. May have been first to develop metallurgy in Americas:Jewelry & tools. Located in South America (Peru)
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emancipation of Russian serfs -
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edict issued in 1861 by Alexander II
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Garden City Concept
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one of the many attempts to reduce and solve social problems during the Industrialization Period
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Henry II and the common law
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this king strengthend the royal court system and encouraged the use of this type of law code, which was standard throughout the country
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Saladin and the third Crusade
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a reaction to the fall of the Holy City of Jerusalem in 1187 to the Muslim forces under _________
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the three laws of motion that govern the planetary bodies, as well as objects on Earth.
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What did Isaac Newton define in his first book, "The Principia?"
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