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41 Cards in this Set
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Quanta
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Belief that energy is radiated discontinually in irregulary packets
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Relativity
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belief that space and time are not absolute but relative to the observer and both are interwoven
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Superman
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Eliminating God and hence Christian morality; had liberated human beings and made it possible to create a high kind of being
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"Life Force"
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Bergson's view of reality, saying it couldn't be divieded into analyzable parts
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Repression
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Unsettling experiences that are blotted from conscious awareness but continute to influence behavior
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Volk
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nation, people, or race
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Pius IX
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Rope was against modern ideas issued a papal encyclical called the Syllabus of Errors
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Leo XIII
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Pope that permitted the teaching of evolution as a hypothesis should be realistic
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Naturalism
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Accepted the material world as real and felt that literature should be realistic
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Impressionism
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A movement when a group of french artists rejected the studios and museums and went to the countryside to paint nature directly
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post impressionism
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emphasized on light and color but revolutionized it by paying more attention to structure and reform.
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Primitivism
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Expression of less refined and more genuine feelings of music
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Peter Stolypin
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Served as the tzar's chief advisor from 1906 until his assasination in 1911
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Imperialism
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Europeans intense scramble for overseas territory
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Great Trek
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Migration road
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Rhodesia
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A territory north of Transvall that cecil rhodes took control of
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"Open door"
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A policy in which one country would not restrict the commerce of the other cournties in its sphere of influence
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Meiji
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The reight of Mutsuhito
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Herbet Spencer
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Most prominent exponent of social darwinism
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Ernst Renan
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Wrote of Jesus as a man
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VasilyKandinsky
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Abstrant expressionist who led flight from visual reality
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Igor Stravinsky
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Composer or the revolutionary Rite of Spring
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Boers
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Descendants of Dutch emigrants to southern Africa
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Cecil Rhodes
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Diamond merchant who tried to overthrow the government of the South African Republic
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James Cook
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British captain who first explored australia
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Manchus
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Last dynastic house of China, overthrown in 1912
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Boxers
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Anti foreight movement in the turn of the century China
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Meiji
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Era when Japan became a modern nation
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Max Planck's discovery of the "quana" energy
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brought Newtonian physics into serious question
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Nietzshe's superman would
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eliminate the Christian or slave mentality
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Albert Einstein
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Developed a theory in which neither time nor space exists independent of human experience
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Sigmund Freud believed that the way to solve the conflicts of psychologically disturbed patients was to
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trace repression back to its childhood origins
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Exponents of social darwinism in the late 19th century called for
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international struggle to establish what peoples are fittest to survive
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The German concept of the Volk
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procaimed german culterue as the worlds highest
led the belief taht jews were out to destrory the aryan race represented the direction social darwinsim took in that country |
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the growing challenges to the christian churches from schience and modern thought resulted in
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a portrait of Jesus as a non-divine person by Ernst Renan in his life of Jesus as man
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Zola's literary naturalism was deeply influenced by
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darwin's theory or the struggle for survival
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Dostoevsky's life experiences led him to believe that
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through suffering man soul is purified
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The early feminist movement was known for
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achievments in nursiing by nightingale and sieveking
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The 1st recorded martyr to the cause of women's fuffarge was
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Emily Davison
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Theodor Herzl's Jewish State concluded that
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The creation of a jewish nation in Palestine was both feasible and advisable
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Europeans justified 19 century imperialism as
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all or none of the above
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