District World History Final

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Neolithic Revolution

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Revolution that started when man first learned to farm and domesticate animals

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Code of Hammurabi

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First law code that led to Future law codes and reforms

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Food

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Surplus of this led to population growth and the development of civilization

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Rivers

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Geographic are where the first colonization begin

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Sparta

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Greek city-state that believed in a military society with boys entering the army at age 7

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Athens

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Greek city-state which developed democracy

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Democratic Republic

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Type of government the funeral oration of pericles and Justinian law codes led to

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United States

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Athenian democracy led to which modern countrie's revolution and democracy

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Alexander the Great

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Greatest Greek Conqueror

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Rome and Han China

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Two civilizations that fell as a result of poor leadership, internal conflict, Civil War, and debt

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Christianity

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Religion spread by the Roman Empire

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Great Wall of China

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Built to keep mongols and other invading tribes out of China

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Grand Canal

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Canal built during the Tang and Song dynasties which allowed more trade

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Ghinghis

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Leader who United the Mongol tribes and established the largest Empire in history

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Gunpowder,compass, porcelain

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3 inventions of ancient China

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Crusades

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Cause an increase in trade between Europe and the Middle East and allowed the Renaissance to begin in Italy

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Reformation

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Religious movement that broke with the Catholic church and led to the creation of new Protestant churches

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Athenian lawcode

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Law code created in the Byzantine Empire and led to more democratic reforms

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Gothic

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Type of architecture that contain tall spires pointed arches and large windows

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Feudalism

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System in which land was given as a reward for military service

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Plague or Black death

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Disease which disrupted the economic social and political structure of Europe

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Islam

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Religion that believes in Allah pilgrimage to Mecca and alms for the poor

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Golden age of Islam

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Time period marked by Major advances in math algebra and science throughout the Middle East

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Islam Judaism and Christianity

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Three religions that began in the Middle East and believe in the Old Testament of the Bible

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Muhammad

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Chief prophet of Islam

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Triangular trade

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Trade system that led to an increase in the slave trade between Africa and the Americans and an increase in agricultural production in the New World

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Christopher Columbus

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Explorer credited with discovering the new world

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Telescope

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Invention that aided exploration and cartography

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Disease

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What killed off millions of Native Americans in the New World

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Divine right

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Where absolute monarchs like Luis XIV thought their power came from

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Commercial revolution

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Revolution that began in Europe because of global trade mercantilism and the development of free enterprise system

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Mercantilism

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economic system in which mother countries profit from trade with their colonies by taking raw materials and selling them finished goods

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Enlightenment

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Movement which inspired American Revolution and French Revolution and the Latin American Revolution

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Taxation

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Cause of both the American Revolution and the French Revolution

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Declaration of the rights of men

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Document created during the French Revolution it was based on the ideas of Enlightenment and the US declaration of independence and the US Constitution

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Napoleon

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French General who took power during the French Revolution and established a huge Empire but was defeated at Waterloo and died exile

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Enlightenment

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Movement that inspired Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries

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Great Britain

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Coal and iron ore allowed the Industrial Revolution to begin here

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Industrial Revolution

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The change from making products by hand in the home (domestic system) to making products by machine in factories

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Capitalism and free enterprise

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Economic system based on the ideas of Adam Smith in his book Wealth of Nations

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Laissez-faire

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Adam Smith's idea of the Invisible Hand when the government does not interfere with their economy

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Karl Marx

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Father of Communism who wrote The Communist Manifesto which started that workers would overthrow the capitalist system

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Imperialism

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When a powerful country gains control of a weaker area

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Resources and markets

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2 Reasons Europeans wanted colonies after the Industrial Revolution

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Berlin Conference

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Conference in which European powers divided up Africa into spheres of influence

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Opium wars

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Wars fought in China over the British drug trade days open China and European imperialism

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White Man's Burden

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Believe that imperialism was justified because Europeans were civilizing natives

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Panama Canal

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Canal would shorten the distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean built by the US

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Military alliances imperialism and nationalism

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MAIN causes for ww1

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Triple Alliance and triple onton

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Two pre War alliances that formed for Mutual protection in case of War

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14 points

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War aims of the Woodrow Wilson during World War 1

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League of Nations

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Peacekeeping organization created after World War one that failed to prevent World War 2

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Valdamir Lennon

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Leader of Russian Bolsheviks who promised peace land and bread to The Peasants and removed Russia from World War 1

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Great Depression

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Caused by over speculation in the stock market and the inability of European countries to repay war debt

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader that came to power as a result of economic problems in Germany during 1930s

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Fascism

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Form of government with blind loyalty to leader and extreme nationalism

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Appeasement

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Give me Hitler the sudetenland at the Munich conference to avoid war

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Manhattan Project

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Secret project to build the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II

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United Nations

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Peacekeeping organization created after World War II

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Cold War

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Conflict between the US and the Soviet Union (USSR) that started because the Soviets occupied Eastern Europe after World War 2

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Containment

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US policy to stop the spread of Communism

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Mao Zedong

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First communist leader of China who became a dictator I love the Long March and Great Leap Forward

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Korea and Vietnam

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Two Wars that resulted from the u.s. policy of containment during the Cold War