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23 Cards in this Set
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A person who comes to a country to take permanent residence.
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Immigrant
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One who flees his or her home for safety.
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Refugee
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The period of European history from about AD 500 to about 1500.
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Middle Ages
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In medieval Europe and Japan, system of government in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty.
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Feudalism
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Religious movement that began in Germany in the 1400s leading to the establishment of Protestant.
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Reformation
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A movement during the 1700s that emphasized the importance of reason and questioned traditions and values.
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Enlightenment
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The rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery.
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Industrial Revolution
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An economic system in which business leaders use profits to expand their companies.
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Industrial Capitalism
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Society based on equality in which workers control industrial production.
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Communism
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Power struggle between the soviet union and the united states after World War 2.
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Cold War
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An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so goods, services, and workers can move freely among member countries.
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European Union
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Nation in which the government assumes major responsibility for people's well-being in areas such as healthcare and education.
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Welfare State
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Artistic style emphasizing individual emotions that developed in Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s as a reaction to industrialization.
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Romanticism
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A foreign laborer working temporarily in a industrialized, usually European, country.
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Guest Worker
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Series of religious wars in which European Christians tried to retake Palestine from Muslim rule.
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Crusades
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Payment for damages.
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Reparations
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The mass killings of 6 million Jews by Germany's Nazi leaders during World War 2.
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Holocaust
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Artistic style portraying everyday life that developed in Europe during the mid-1800s.
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Realism
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A painter who practices impressionism, the artistic style developed in Europe in the late 1800s, in which dabs or strokes of color are used to give the effect of reflecting light.
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Impressionist
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In ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands.
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City-State
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In Europe, a 300 year period of renewed interest in classical learning and the arts, beginning in the 1300s.
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Renaissance
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The division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other.
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Balkanization
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The expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups.
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Ethnic Cleansing
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