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38 Cards in this Set
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840 |
Industrial Revolution |
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an area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier. |
Enclosure |
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Crop rotation is a systematic approach to deciding which crop to plant where in your vegetable garden from one year to the next. |
crop rotation |
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Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. |
Industrialization |
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Factors of production are the resources of LAND, LABOUR, CAPITAL |
Factors of Production |
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a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine. |
Factory |
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a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so |
Entrepreneur |
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The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy. |
Middle class |
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the capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares. |
Stock |
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a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. |
Corporation |
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a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. |
Socialism |
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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. |
Communism |
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the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context. |
Union |
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a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. |
Strike |
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the right to vote in political elections. |
Suffrage |
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hostility to or prejudice against Jews. |
Anti Semitism |
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a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. |
Zionism |
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A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. |
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An assembly line is a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to work station where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced. |
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Radioactivity refers to the particles which are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability. |
Radioactivity |
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the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. |
Rascism |
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politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors. |
Geopolotics |
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The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. |
suez canal |
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The Pacific Rim are the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. |
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war fought between chinese and british over british selling a drug to chinease that had 12 million addicted already. |
Opium war |
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The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers. |
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British sovereignty in India. |
Raj |
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A sepoy (/ˈsiːpɔɪ/) was formerly the designation given to an Indian soldier. In the modern Nepalese Army, Indian Army, Pakistan Army and Bangladesh Army it remains in use for the rank of private soldier. |
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The French Third Republic governed France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed, to 1940, when France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the Vichy France government. |
Third Republic |
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The shaka sign, sometimes known as "hang loose", is a gesture often associated with Hawaii and surf culture. |
Shaka |
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a person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times. |
Aborigine |
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José Julián Martí Pérez is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. |
Jose Marti |
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Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. |
Urbanization |
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Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. |
Boer war |
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Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. |
Adam Smith |
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Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia, he later became stateless and spent much of his life in London. |
Karl Marx |
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Cultural assimilation is the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. |
Assimilation |
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A military or political leader |
Caudillo |
