World Civ Exam 2 Names

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Japan ruler, set up a government that lasted into the 19th century. Shogun in Tokugawa Shogunate.

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Kangxi

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Kind, made a library. Chinese ruler in the Qing dynasty. Met the expectations of Chinese and Manchu elites.

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Lord George Macartney

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Sent by British King George III on a mission to China to secure a place for British traders to live near the tea-producing areas. Would not erform kowtow (kneeling and bowing), was denied an audience in the palace.

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Yangban

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Hereditary aristocrats at the top of Korean society. Owned most of land and government positions.

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Yi Songgye

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Korean general, saved the country from Japanese pirates. Staged a coup and seized the throne, founding the Choson (Yi) Dynasty. Made Seoul capital

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Yoshimasa

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Japanese shogun. Built the Silver Pavilion. Instituted tea.

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Zeami

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Japanese actor and playwright, wrote on the aesthetic theory of No. Said the most meaningful moments came during silence.

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Oda Nobunaga

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Samurai of the lesser daimyo class, built his retainer band from masterless samurai. Motto was "rule by force". Forced to commit suicide.

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C.P. Thunberg

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Swedish scientist, physician to the Dutch at Deshima. Japanese looked on him as a scientific oracle, plied him with questions.

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Geishas

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Accomplished persons. Attractive/talented girls trained in singing, dancing, and conversational arts. Became courtesans

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Ihara Saikaku

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Japanese, wrote stories of the foibles of townspeople in "Five Women who Loved Love" and "The Life of an Amorous Man".

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Pius IX

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Pope, gave support for unification of Italy until he was driven from Rome during an upheaval. Wrote "Syllabus of Errors", denounced rationalism, socialism, seperation of church and state, and religious liberty.

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Jeremy Bentham

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Radical English philosopher. Taught that public problems should be dealt with on a rational, scientific basis, according to the "greatest good for the greatest number."

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Edwin Chadwick

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Benthamite (follower of Bentham). Became convinced that disease and death caused poverty. Believed that disease could be prevented by sanitation.

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Miasmatic Theory

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The belief that people contract disease when they breathe the bad odors of decay and putrefying excrement.

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Louis Pasteur

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Developed the germ theory of disease. French chemist. Said fermentation could be suppressed by pasteurization.

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Robert Koch

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German doctor, developed pure cultures of harmful bacteria and described their life cycles.

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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Russian chemist, codified the rules of chemistry in the periodic law and table, provided the basis for organic chemistry.

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Michael Faraday

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Made discoveres in electromagnetism, which resulted in the first dynamo (generator)

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Emile Zola

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French novelist, strict determinist, realist

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Leo Tolstoy

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Greatest Russian novelist. Combined realism with atypical moralizing, wrote "War and Peace"

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Theodor Herzl

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Jewish journalist, turned from German nationalism to advocate Zionism.

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Edward Bernstein

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Socialist. Wrote "Evolutionary Socialism", said Marx's predictions of ever-growing poverty or workers had been proved false.

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Jean Jaures

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France, socialist leader. A gradualist.

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Heinrich von Treitschke

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German nationalist historian

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Rudyard Kipling

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Most influential British writer of 1890s, wrote about Anglo-Indian life.

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J.A. Hobson

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Radical English economist, wrote "Imperialism"

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Joseph Conrad

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Polish-born novelist wrote "Heart of Darkness", against civilizing Africa.

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Tanzimat

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Constitution and short-lived parliament started by an Ottoman statesman. Designed to make the empire into a Western model.

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Muhammed Ali

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Albanian-born Turkish general in Egypt. Policies of modernization attracted Europeans to the Nile.

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Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

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Teacher and writer, lived in Cairo, preached Islamic regeneration and defense against Western/Christian aggression. Believed Islam iembodied modern rationalism

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Muhammad Abduh

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Searched for Muslim rejuvenation and launched the modern Islamic reform movement. Said Muslims should return to the purity of the earliest, most essential doctrines of Islam

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Qasim Amin

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Writer, found inspiration in the West. Wrote "The Liberation of Women", said superior education for European women had contributed greatly to the Islamic world's falling far behind the West.

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Great Mutiny

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Indian. Groups of sepoys revolved in what the British called "great mutiny" and the Indians called "great revolt"

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Matthew Perry

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Commodore, steamed into Edo (Tokyo) and demanded diplomatic negotiations with the emperor. Forced the Japanese to share their ports and behave as a "civilized"nation

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Toussaint l'Ouverture

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Freed slave. Led a revolution in Haiti, aroused elite fears of black revolt and warfare.

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Simon Bolivar

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Military leader. Offered slaves their freedom in exchange for military service.

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John O'Sullivan

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Editor of "United States Magazine and Democratic Review". Declared that foreign poewrs were trying to prevent American annexation of Texas.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Mexico surrendered its claims to Texas, gave up New Mexico and California, and recognized the Rio Grande as the international border

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Herbert G. Gutman

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Wrote "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom", said that African Americans had strong family units despite slavery.

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Jacob Riis

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Newspaper reporter, Denmark immigrant. Wrote "How the Other Half Lives", drew national attention to New York's slums

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Edward Hargraves

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Australian-born prospector discovered gold in a creek in the Blue Mountains called Ophir. Gold fever convulsed Australia.