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Polis
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Greek city-state
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Warren Court decisions
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polis
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a Greek city-state
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Pontius Pilot
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ordered Jesus crucifixion
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patricide
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- killing of father
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World War 1
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War from 1914-1918
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Possibly napoleon's most disastrous decision was to invade ____.
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Russia
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mosque
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A Muslim house of worship
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sputnik
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-underscored weaknesses in U.S. education
- Eisenhower approved grants to schools to develop science, languages, and math programs
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Auschwitz
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Largest German concentration camp in WW2
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impressment
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British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service
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Ben Franklin
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Obtain truth through experimentation and reasoning
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Grover Cleveland
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Democrats' presidential nominee in 1884, 1888, and 1892, won in first and last tries
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These were stories and legends told by the Vikings passed down from generation to generation.
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Sagas
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Second Crusade
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1147-1149preached by the eminent Bernard of Clairvaux, Christendom’s most powerful monastic leader, attempted a rescue, failure
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Nisei
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U.S. citizens born of immigrant Japanese parents
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seventh amendment
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right to a trial by jury
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Aqua
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A NASA satellite designed to obtain data on Earth's water cycle.
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Isandhlwana
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Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories of African forces over Western Europeans (p. 582)
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Nagasaki
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Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945).
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reigned 1603 to 1616
patient and clever
took the title of shogun
built castle at Edo
If the cuckoo won't sing I'll wait for him to sing
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Colored Alliance
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Populist Party wanted to merge
didn't happen
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Intendants
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gov’t agents who collected taxes & administered justice. All came from middle class.§ Richelieu strengthened their power to weaken the power of the nobility.§ Extremely loyal to crown Ù no longer needed military & political nobility Ù absolutism
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Blamed for the panic of 1973
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Van Beuran
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Colbert
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Became minister of finance in 1655 when economy was weak. Believed in mercantilism. § To expand manufacturing, he gave subsidies-grants of money & tax benefits to French companies.§ Sought to develop mining & agriculture. Encouraged foreigners to settle in France to get workers.§ Balance of trade: Exporting more than importing.§ To protect France’s industries, placed high tariff-import tax-on good coming in to France.§ Recognized importance of colonies. Gov’t encouraged people to migrate to Canada (fur trade).§ Improved transportation within France b/c vital to trade.
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Proletariat
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working class opressed by the middle class acording to karl Marx
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obelisk
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a tall, four-sided stone pillar that tapers to a point like a pyramid.
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los pergurinas
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cominantes en ruta hacia la salvacion
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Adena
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Mound Bulider scoiety of the ohio valley 700BC-100 AD
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Homo Sapiens
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Evolved about 200,000 YA, brain w/ large frontal regions for conscious/reflective thought, spread through Eurasia starting more than 100,000 YA; Ice Age land bridges enabled them to populate other continents; used knives, spears, bows & arrows; brought tremendous pressure on other species. Modern human. Name means "wise human".
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Paleolithic Age
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a prehistoric period that lasted from about 2,500,000B.C. to 8000B.C. , during which people made use of crude stone tools and weapons- also called the old stone age
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Ivanhoe
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a book written by Walter Scott that showed the clash between the Saxons and the Norman knights in medieval England
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What is a Chinese art puzzle called?
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Answer: tanagram
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Francis Ferdinnd
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archduke of A-H and his assasination sparked the powderkeg of europe
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powers shared by the national and state governments include the power to
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conduct elections
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Explain Pontiac's Rebellion.
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Pontiac's Rebellion was when the Native American's resisted English settlement in their land, and it led to war. A later made Proclamation of 1763 states that, "Settlers may not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Right then, tensions started to grow between English colonists and the British government.
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southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC)
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American civil right organization consisting of black churchmen
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Community Controls
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A patttern of cooperation and common action which was mobilized by percieved threats to the economic, social, and moral stability of the closely knit communit.
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The Jungle
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written by Upton Sindair about chicago mean packaging and unsanitary unsafe conditions. led to pure food and drug act
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Mercantilism
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Zero sum economy, to be wealthy you either have to keep your own wealth and steal someone elses
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cultural diffusion
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the spread of ideas, customs, and tech. from one people to another
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Theodore Roosevelt
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He claimed the phrase Mukrakers to describe investigative journalist during the Progresive Era
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1863 Battle of Gettysburg
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2nd major turning point. Bloodiest battle, triggered by Vicksburg. after these wars, lincoln opens cemetery for men who have died and delivers his gettysburg address.
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Siddhartha Gautama
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A reformer whose teachings of the core beliefs of the 4 noble truths and the noble eightfold path, eventually spread across Asia to become one the world's most influential religions, Buddhusm.
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Indonesia
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The island of Java is part of what South East Asian country?
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Stone Tools
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Found near Homo habilis and used by humans at least 2.5 million years ago
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1077 CE
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Henry IV goes to gregory VII and pleads to be reinstated in the church... eventually allows him back in
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balance of trade
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The difference in value between the total exports and total imports of a nation
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Democracy
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gov’t by the people; also a way of life that values liberty and equality
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Berlin airlift
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in an attempt to break the blockade, American and British officials started this to fly flood and supplies into West Berlin
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Citizen
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an inhabitant of a city or town; one entitled to the rights and priviledges of a freeman
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Oberlin College of Ohio
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college full of African Americans and women
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Lexington and Concord
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This was the start of the revolution, with the shot heard 'round the world." British troops marched to Concord to destroy weapons, standoff at Lexington, killed minutemen, destroyed weapons, on the way back Colonial militia shot at them.
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Transcontinentel Railroad
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pays a lot of money to Chinese. Built tunnels. "Lighters" use dynamites
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What is Liberation theology?
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Group that threatened the state and the wealthy. It confronted powerful opposition forces that were willing to engage in violence if necessary.
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Brought on by Henry Dawes. Each NA family got 160 acres (adults 80 acres) in order to farm. The US distributed 47 million acres. It was the most humane way to create Americans out of NAs. Problems were that NAs were nomadic, they were attached to a collective identity (not an individual one), & they had a deep cultural heritage. US also gave them American clothing and the children were schooled in the "American" way. 1887
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women in non-combat roles
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work on family farms, nurses for the Red Cross, drive delivery trucks, work at railroads, docks, coal mines, fix cars of the army, sell war bonds, plant victory gardens
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Why did the Meiji government begin building schools in most Japanese towns and villages in the late 1800s?
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Officials knew that modernization required an educated workforce.
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The most compelling argument for the success of the common schools was that they
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brought Americans of different economic and ethnic backgrounds together in mutually beneficial contact
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- Know that the main Soviet response to containment was the Berlin blockade. How did the United States respond?
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President Truman responded to the blockade by sending planeloads of much-needed supplies to West Berlin.a.k.a Berlin Airlift
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Be able to explian Paul Revere's ride in pharagraph form .
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British military head of Boston, General Gage, found out that the minutemen were storing guns and ammunition in Concord, Massachusetts. The colonists started to create a plan for the attack that they expected because General Gage would have told the others in Britain. The colonists came up with a plan which was that if the British were leaving by water they would hang two lanterns in the Old North Church. If the British were traveling by land, the colonists would hang one lantern in the Old North Church.
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who was the leader of harlem renaissance and what was harlem renaissance?
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marcus garvey was the leader
it was the rebirth of the blac culture
it promoted cultural pride and race purity
blak artist, witers, & musicians developed thier talents here
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What were the goals of the isolationists?
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To stay out of world affairs in the 1930's.
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