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63 Cards in this Set
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Who is Hongwu? |
first Ming emperor who drove out Mongols |
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Who is Yonglo? |
Hongwu's son who launched the seven voyages of exploration |
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Who is Zheng He? |
admiral of the seven voyages giving gifts to show China's power |
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Why did people dislike the seven voyages? |
It wasted valuable resources to defend themselves |
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How did China keep outside influence to a minimum? |
only govt conducted foreign trade through 3 coastal ports. |
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Why did China not become highly industrialized? |
the idea of commerce offended Confucian beliefs and they favored agriculture. Manufacturing products had high taxes. |
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Why did the Ming Dynasty weaken? |
weak rulers, debt, taxes and bad harvest |
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Who founded the Qing Dynasty? |
the Manchus |
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How did the Manchus earn China's respect? |
kept Confucian beliefs and restored prosperity |
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Why was China isolated? |
They were self sufficient |
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What did Christian missionaries bring to China? |
European knowledge |
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What was the Opium War? |
Britain vs. China to stop opium trade |
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What are extraterritorial rights? |
foreigners could now trade in other ports of China |
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What was a growing internal problem in China? |
overpopulation |
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What was the Taiping Rebellion? |
Hong fighting for great peace |
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Who was the Dowager Empress? |
she was committed to traditional values, but supported reforms which would support manufacturing |
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What is the sphere of influence? |
an area where a foreign nation controlled trade and investment |
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What was the Open Door Policy? |
China to open trade |
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What was the Boxer Rebellion? |
those against Christian Chinese and the Dowager Empress |
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What is romanticism? |
nature, individual, emotion |
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What was romanticism influenced by? |
Shakespeare |
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Who is Beethoven? |
a composer from Germany |
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Why did Beethoven move to Vienna? |
embodiment of romanticism |
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What did Beethoven believe about equality? |
Artists are equal to nobility, talent meens higher class |
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What is realism? |
showing life as it was, not as it should be |
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What did Dickens write about? |
the poor living conditions; A Christmas Carol |
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What is impressionism? |
the impression of a subject or moment of time |
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What was impressionist art trying to convey? |
The lighter, more positive side of life |
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Who is Charles Darwin? |
an English naturalist |
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What was Darwin's theory? |
natural selection |
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Who is Friedrich Nietsche? |
a philopher |
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What was Nietche's theory? |
The will to power, superman, "God is Dead" |
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Who is Sigmund Freud? |
a psychologist |
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What was Freud's theory? |
psychoanalysis: talk therapy |
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What is psychology? |
the study of the mind and behavior |
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What were the Dual revolutions? |
French and Industrial |
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Who is Karl Marx? |
a politician |
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What was Marx's theory? |
Communism; no conflict between social classes |
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What were the Dual Revolutions about? |
the middle classes coming to power |
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What power was the French Revolution based on? |
political power |
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What power was the Industrial Revolution based on? |
economic power |
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What was the third Estate made up of? |
commoners |
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What is the Maiji era? |
When Japan opens trade and modernizes |
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What were Sepoys? |
Indian soldiers under British command |
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What was the Sepoy mutiny? |
sepoy rebellion of the British East India Company |
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What was the significance of the Sepoy Mutiny? |
it was a turning point that brought the Raj |
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What is the Raj? |
British rule after India came under the British Crown |
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What did the Raj begin globally? |
the start of imperialism |
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What is geopolitics? |
taking land for its strategic value |
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What was the importance of the Suez Canal? |
It was a shortcut to India |
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Why did the British invade the Ottoman Empire? |
to that Russia doesn't claim it first |
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What was the Monroe Doctrine? |
kept European countries from seizing Latin American land |
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What was the Roosevelt Corollary? |
gave the US power to be "international police" so that trade runs smoothly |
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What is racism? |
When one race thinks they are superior to another through physical characteristics |
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What did Europe think of China being isolated? |
They thought China was killing themselves being closed off from the world |
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What is paternalism? |
governing people in a parental way by providing for their needs, but not giving them rights |
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What is Social Darwinism? |
the social theory of survival of the fittest |
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What is mass culture? |
the appeal of art, writing, music, and other forms of entertainment to a larger audience |
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Who were the native peoples of Australia? |
the Aborigine |
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Who were the native peoples in New Zealand? |
the Maori |
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Just know leopold |
of belgium |
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What was the effect of Korean resentment? |
nationalistic movement |
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Who is Jose Marti? |
a Cuban nationalist |
