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Congress of Vienna |
A meeting of the quadruple Alliance, russia, prussia, austria, and great brittin, in France held in 1814 through 1815 new fashion a general peace settlement that attempted to redraw Europe political map after the defeat of Napoleonic France |
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Conservatism |
A political philosophy that stressed retaining traditional values and institutions, including hereditary monarchy and a strong landowning aristocracy |
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Liberalism |
A philosophy whose principal ideas were equality and liberty. Liberals demanded representative government and equality before the law as well as such an individual freedoms as freedom of the press, freedom of the speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of arbitrary arrest |
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Laissez faire |
A doctrine of economic liberalism advocating unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy |
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Nationalism |
The idea that eat people had its own genius and its own cultural unity, which manufactured itself expecially in a common language and history, and that could serve as the basis for an independent political system |
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Socialism |
A radical political doctrine that opposed individualism and fragmentation of society and advocated international cooperation and a sense of community. Key ideas for economic planning, greater economic equality, and state regulation of property |
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Bourgeoisie |
The well educated, prosperous, middle-class groups |
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Proletariat |
The Marxist term for the modern working class |
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Modernization |
The changes that enable a country to complete effectively with the leading countries at a given time |
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October Manifesto |
The results of a great general strike in Russia in October 1905, granted full civil rights and promised a popularly elected Duma with real legislative power |
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Germ theory |
The idea that disease is caused by the spread of living organisms that can be controlled |
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Evolution |
The idea, developed by Charles Darwin, that all life had gradually evolve from a common origin through a process of natural selection. As applied by thinkers in many fields, the idea stress gradual change and continuous adjustment |
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Social darwinism |
The application of the theory of biological evolution to human affairs is seized the human race has driven to ever greater specialization and progress by unending economic struggle that determines the survival of the fittest |
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Romanticism |
A movement in art, literature, and music characterized by a belief and emotional exuberance, unrestrained imagination, and spontaneity in both art and personal life |
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Dreyfus affair |
A divisive case in which Alfred Dreyfus a Jewish captain in the French Army, was falsely accused and convicted of treason. The Catholic Church side with the anti-semites against dreyfuse, after he was declared innocent, the French government surrendered all ties between the state and the church |
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Zoinism |
The movement toward Jewish political nationhood started by Theodore Herzl |
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Revisionism |
An effort by various socialist to update marzist doctrines to reflect the realities of the time |
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Palm oil |
A West African tropical product often used to make soap. The British and courage its cultivation as an alternative to the slave trade |
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Jihad |
Religious war waged by Muslim scholars and religious leaders against both animist rulers and Islamic states that can be deemed corrupt |
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Sokoto caliphate |
Founded in 1809 by Uthman dan fodio , this African state was based on Islamic history and law |
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Berlin Conference |
A meeting of European leaders held in 1884 21885 to lay down basic rules for Imperial list competition in sub-saharan Africa |
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Protectorate |
An autonomous state or territory partly controlled and protected by a stronger outside power |
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Afrikaners |
Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa |
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New imperialism |
The late 19th century drive by European countries to create that political empires abroad |
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Quinine |
An agent that proved effective in controlling attacks of malaria, which had previously decimated Europeans in the tropics |
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White mans burden |
The idea that Europeans could and should civilized more primitive non white peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide non-whites with modern achievements and higher standards of living |
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Tanzimat |
A set of radical reforms designed to remake the ottoman Empire on a Western European |
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Young turks |
Fervent Patriots who seized power and the revolution in 1908, 14 the conservation sultan to implement reforms. They helped pave the way for the birth of modern specular Turkey |
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Great migration |
The mass movement of people from Europe in the 19th century. One reason that the West impact on the world was so powerful and complex |
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Migration chain |
The movement of peoples in which one strong individual Blazers the way and others follow |
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Great white walls |
Discriminatory laws built by Americans and Australians to keep Asians from settling in their countries in the 1880s |
