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30 Cards in this Set
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General Will
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Majority rule; what most people want is done.
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Industrial Revolution
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A change-over from an agrarian handicraft economy to a machine-based economy. Effects technology and transportation.
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Protoindustrialization
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(A time period) set the foundation for future capitalism and the big Industrial Revolution.
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Montesquieu
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Check and balances; divided branches (separate power branches).
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Meritocracy
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Achievement based on skills, not birth.
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Nationalism in the 1830's
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Ex: Greece and Belgium
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Liberalism in the 1830's
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Ex: France with voting rights, etc.
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Cooperatives
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Farming groups to market crops/purchase supplies.
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Otto von Bismarck
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Unites Germany from 1870-1871.
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Tropical Dependencies
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Small number of Europeans rule a ton of locals.
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White Dominions
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Small number of natives, whites majority.
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King Kamehameha
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Unites Hawaii; used Western weapons/methods to take the kingdom.
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Monroe Doctrine
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President James Monroe gives a speech basically telling other nations to back off Latin America, the USA will handle them.
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Ayan
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Ottoman landowners.
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Mahmud II
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Gets rid of the Janissaries in the Soup Kettle Debacle of 1826.
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"Sick Man of Europe"
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Name given to the Ottoman Empire due to their slow decline.
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Qing Dynasty
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The Manchu Dynasty
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Alexander II of Russia
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Gets the name "Czar Emancipator" because he freed the serfs.
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Crimean War
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1854-1856. War of Russia vs. Ottoman Empire to fight for control of the Black Sea. France + Britain aid the Ottoman Empire to keep the balance of power.
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Debtor Nation
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When your country owes money to other nations because you invest in their capital.
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Pogroms
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Mob attacks on Jewish villages. Part of nationalistic movement because of submission to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Bolsheviks
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Soviet elite (instead of the proletariat) that will overthrow the Bourgeoisie in Russia's form of Marxism with Lenin.
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Stolypin Reforms
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Serf's freedom from redemption payments. Duma = national parliament. Buy and sell land more freely.
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Kulaks
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Russian minority entrepreneurs.
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Terakoya Schools
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Japan's nationalistic beginnings in the form of schools and the beginning of public education.
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Iwasaki Yataro
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Founded the Mitsubishi Company.
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Zaibatsu
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Wealthy Japanese businessmen who run large corporations.
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Sultan
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Ends up becoming a figurehead (like the Queen of England) of the Ottoman Empire because their power diminishes due to the rise of power in groups such as the ayan.
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Tanzimat Reforms
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A continuation of Western reforms in the Ottoman Empire under Mahmud II.
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Positivism
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Observation and science to make social changes.
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