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James Watt
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Created steam engine made to speed up the transition from manmade to machine-made goods
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Congress of Vienna
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single meeting that redrew the map of Europe following the demise of Napoleon Bonaparte
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James Watt
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created steam engine made to speed up the transition from manmade to machine made goods
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Liberalism
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belief that change is good, especially when getting rights and abilities for a people
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Nationalism
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belief that leads to support a particular group in an effort to obtain freedom or create a new homeland, which sometimes leads to war
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Conservatism
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an ideology that favors the "Status Quo" and often results in conflict to maintain
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Concert of Europe
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periodic, usually annual, meeting between the leaders of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Great Britain, France following the demise of Napoleon I
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Simon Bolivar
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know as the "Great Liberator" of Latin America
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Jose de San Martin
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was inspired by simon bolivar, helped Argentina, Chile and Peru become independent
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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led the Haitain independence movement
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Crimean War
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event forced Russia to confront its lack of technology
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King Victor Emmanuel II
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the first leader of a unified Italy
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Giuseppi Garibaldi
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an independently minded revolutionary, who invaded and occupied southern portions of modern Italy
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Otto von Bismark
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he served as the first German Chancellor and the Kaiser's 'right hand man'
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Seven Weeks War
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a conflict in which Austria lost in a short time period and then enabling prussia to have the upper hand
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Franco-Prussia War
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event that was created by the Prime Minister in Prussia led his nation to the pinnacle of European military power
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Romanticism
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an art literary movement favored emotional views and depictions of people and things
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Realism
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an art literary movement that stressed how things and people actually looked and felt
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Steel
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an invention was really just refined or purified iron
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Electricity/ Thomas Edison
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power
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Qajar Dynasty
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Iranian ruling family that ruled before Raza Khan showed up
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Reza Khan
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He overthrew the Qajar rulers in Iran and was supposed to form a republic. He eventually strengthened the central government and established the Pahlavi Dynasty
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