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James Watt |
Father of the Industrial Rev., improved steam engine; important energy source |
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Louis Pasteur |
French Chemist, discovered vaccines against rabies and anthrax, discovered pastorization, Germ Theory of disease |
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Adam Smith |
British economist, admired Physocrats, wealth of Nations, supporter of Laissez Faire, govt. protect society & provide public works |
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Panama Canal |
Central America, connects Pacific & Atlantic, open 1914, used by military merchants to get around Americas faster |
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Meiji restoration |
1868-1912, turning point of Japanese History, motto (rich country, strong military), western influence, (adoption of W. culture resulting in modernization & demand quickly) |
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Karl Marx |
German philosopher, theory of scientific socialism, published Comminist Manifesto, thought economics were driving force of history |
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Queen Victoria |
longest reign in british history, honesty, hard work, respectability, made Great Britian feel confident in their future, empress of India 1877 |
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Thomas Edison |
1870, electric lightbulb, sound recording, movies |
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Charles Darwin |
argued that all forms of life had evolved into their present state over millions of years (natural selection, evolution, on the orgin of species) |
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Charles Dickens |
english novelist who potrayed lives of slum dwellers & factory workers, including children. Wrote Oliver Twist, christmas carol. Wrote to make people realize that those people need to be taken care of. |
