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absolute monarchy
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the transmission of power is two-fold, hereditary and marital; as absolute governor, the monarch’s authority is not legally bound or restricted by a constitution. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people
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Admiral Zheng He sakoku
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"closed country policy"
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American Bill of Rights-
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first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known
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American Civil War-
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(1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States as well as several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states.
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Code de Napoleon/Napoleonic Code
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The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified.
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Crimean War-
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October 1853–February 1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of the British Empire, French Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller campaigns in western Turkey, the Baltic Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the White Sea.
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Declaration of Independence
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a statement by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776,
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, the rights of Man are universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining
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Glorious Revolution
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Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England.
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Isaac Newton
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described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries Newton also built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound.
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Jacobins
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political club of the French Revolution. Raidcal changes in social political economic
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John Locke -
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English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers Tabula rasa, "government with the consent of the governed"; state of nature; rights of life, liberty and property
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Manifest Destiny
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the belief that God wanted the U.S. to own all of North America
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Marxist-socialism
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was the 19th century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. It was used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with mexico; the concept was denounced by Whigs, and fell into disuse after the mid 1850s.
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Meiji Restoration-
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also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure. It occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, a period that spans both the late Edo period (often called Late Tokugawa shogunate) and the beginning of the Meiji Era.
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Napoleon Bonaparte-
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was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I French invasion of Russia in 1812
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Native American Holocaust
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- Prologue / Before Columbus / Pestilence and Genocide / Sex, Race and Holy War / Epilogue
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Olympe de Gouges-
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen French early 1780s
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Opium War
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also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, were the climax of trade disputes and diplomatic difficulties between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire after China sought to restrict British opium traffickers. It consisted of the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842 and the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860.
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Philosophes -
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French enlightenment thinkers usually applied to themselves
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Simon Bolivar
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he played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. was a Venezuelan political leader f Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia and is revered as a national hero in them.
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Spanish-American War
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- was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. While many historians and experts routinely include the indigenous struggles for independence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands under this heading, the name Spanish-American War (explicitly suggesting the period of US military involvement, as it does) narrowly refers to the US-sponsored punctuation to the late-nineteenth-century turmoil in the Spanish colonies
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Trans-Atlantic slave trade-
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was the trading, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
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absolute monarchy
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-In an absolute monarchy, the transmission of power is two-fold, hereditary and marital; as absolute governor, the monarch’s authority is not legally bound or restricted by a constitution.
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classical liberalism-
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is a political ideology that developed in the 19th century in England, Western Europe, and the Americas. It is committed to the ideal of limited government and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly, and free markets.
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constitutional government-
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is a set of rules for government
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mass production -
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the production of large amounts of standardized products,
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nationalism
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identification -of an ethnic identity with a state identification of a homogeneous national culture is combined with a negative view of other races or cultures
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Neocolonialism-
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is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed countries' involvement in the developing worldThe term neocolonialism can combine a critique of current actual colonialism (where some states continue administrating foreign territories and their populations in violation of United Nations resolution and a critique of the involvement of modern capitalist businesses in nations which were former colonies
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salutary neglect
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-was an undocumented, though long-standing British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain.
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separation of powers / checks and balances-
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forms the cornerstone of the constitutional framework envisioned by the Founding Fathers to ensure a form of government in which no individual or group ever becomes too powerful.
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Reign of Terror
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also known as the The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of violence that occurred for one year and two months after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution."
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Admiral Zheng He
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leet admiral, who made the voyages along with Wang Jinghong to Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Africa,
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"effective occupation"
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indicate that the parties to a particular treaty are to retain possession of that which they forcibly seized during a war.
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