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72 Cards in this Set
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Creoles
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In colonial Latin America, American born spanish gentry.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Leader of the English Revolution that deposed the Shuart monarchs in favor of a short lived Republic.
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Crusades
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Eurpoean Christian military expeditions made between the 11th and 13th centuries to retake the Middle Eastern Holy Lands occupied by the Muslims.
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Crises that devolped as a result of Cuban dictator Castro's decision to allow the Soviet Union to base nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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Cuban Revolution
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A political revolution that removed the United States supported Fugencio Batista from power.
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Cultural Diffusion
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The spreading of ideas through contact such as trade or war.
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Cultural Revolution
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Political policy started in China by Mao Zedong to eliminate his rivals and train a new generation in the revolutionary spirit that created communist China.
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Culture
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The shared beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people.
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Culture System
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A system of labor used by the Dutch in their South East Asia colonies.
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Cuneiform
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One of the earliest forms of writing.
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Marie Curie
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French scientist.
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Pierre Curie
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French scientist.
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Cyrillic
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An alphabet created by Eastern Orthodox monks for the Slavic language.
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Czar
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Title of the ruler of Russia. Taken from the word Caesar, which means emperor.
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Czar Nicholas II
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Czar of Russia. He was over thrown during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Vasco Da Gama
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Portuguese explorer who, established an all water route to India.
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Leoardo Da Vinci
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An Italian painter, sculptor, engineer and inventer. Painter of the Mona Lisa.
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Gottlleb Daimler
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German inventer.
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Daimyo
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Land owning feudal lords in Japan.
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Dalai Lama
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The spiritual leader of the Tibetan sect of Buddhism, and is considered to be the reincarnation of the bodhisattva.
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Dam
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A structure built to hold water in place.
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Dante
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Italian poet and Renaissance writer.
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Darius I
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King of Persia who expanded his empire to extand from the Mediterranean to the Indus River.
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Miquel de Cervantes
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Spanish Ressaissance writer.
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F.W. de Klerk
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The white South Afrian president who ended Apartheid in the early 1990s.
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Jose de San Martin
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Latin American revolutionary.
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Decimal System
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Numeric system based on ten.
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Declaration of the rights of man
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Revolutionary document of the French Revolution.
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deforestation
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the wide spread destruction of the world's forest.
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democracy
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a system of government in which the citizens hold the legislative, judicial and executive power, based on majority rule.
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democratic republic
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a political system in which a country is ruled by law, has representative government, and is democratic in nature.
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Deng Xiaoping
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Chinese communist.
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Rene
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French intellectual who challenged traditional ideas.
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desertfication
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the process in which land slowly dries out untill little or no vegetation exists becoming a desert.
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Detente
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a policy during the Cold War which was aimed at relaxing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Developing nations
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Nations that are economically and technologically less developed than industrialized nations.
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Dharma
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The act of fulfilling one's duty in life.
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Bartholomeu Dias
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Portuguese explorer who was the first person to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
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Diaspora
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The enfored spreading out of a group of people
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Dictatorship
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a system of government in which a country is ruled by a single person with absolute power.
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Diocletian
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Emperor of Rome who was responsible for dividing Rome into different provinces and districts.
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Discrimination
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To treat unfairly due to a persons ethnic backround, gender, religion, or age.
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Divine
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Godlike, or coming form, or having to do with a god.
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The Divine Comedy
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An epic poem written by Dante during the Renaissance.
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divine right
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the justification of monarchy through the word of God.
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Divorce
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the legal act of ending a marriage.
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dome
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a hemispherical roof.
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Dome of the Rock
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First Islamic religious shrine.
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Domesticate
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to tame an animal to live with, or close to humans.
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Domino theory
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The idea that countries bordering communist countries were in more danger of falling to communism unless the United States and other western nations worked to prevent it.
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Don Quixote
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a comedic book written by Miguel de Cervantes during the Renaissance.
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Duma
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Name of Russia Parliament.
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Dutch East Indies
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A group of islands in South East Asia claimed by the Dutch.
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dyke
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a drainage ditch used to help control flooding.
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Dynastic Cycle
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In china, a dynasty would remain in power only as long as it was providing a good governmnent.
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dynasty
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a succession of rulers from the same family.
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Ebola
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A contagious disease in Africa.
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Economic Rights
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owning property or the choice to employed.
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Edict of Milan
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Proclamation by the Roman Emperor Constantine outlawing the persecution of Christains.
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Thomas Eddison
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American inventor.
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Eight Fold Path
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code of behavior for followers of Buddism.
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Albert Einstein
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American scientist best known for his theory of relativity.
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Elizabeth I
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Queen of England and Ireland.
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Emperor
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political ruler of a country of nation.
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Empire
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a collection of nations or peoples ruled by a single authority.
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Enclosure Movement
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During the Industrial Revolution, it was the consolidation of many small farms into one large farm.
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Economienda system
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A system of production in Spain's New World possessions which granted permission to conquistadors to enslave people as needed to work a plantation.
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Friedrich Engels
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German socialist and co-author of the Communist Manifesto.
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Engineer
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a person who plans mechanic structures for a variety of uses.
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English Bill of Rights
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written after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which created a limited monarchy and established Parliament as the ruling body of the nation.
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Enlightened Despots
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a monarch who retains absoute controll while also enacting reformed based on Enlightenment ideas.
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Enlightenment
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a movement in the 18th century that stressed the importance of reason and science.
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