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46 Cards in this Set
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How has geography influenced the course of history?
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Week 1
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What is history?
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Week 1
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Why did parliament succeed in expanding its powers in England?
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Week 2
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What were some of the characteristics of political modernization in England?
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Week 2
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What factors allowed the Ottoman Turks to create such a large empire?
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Week 3
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What was the key to Akbar's success as a ruler?
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Week 3
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What were some of the characteristics of Chinese and Japanese society in the early modern period?
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Week 4
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How did Japanese society respond to Western contact in the early modern period?
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Week 4
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What was the scientific method?
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Week 5
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Why was the era called the "Enlightenment"?
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Week 5
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How did industrial production change Western society?
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Week 6
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Compare and contrast some of the major characteristics of economic and political modernization in England and Japan in the 17th - 19th centuries.
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Week 6
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Why did Britain (and other European countries) expand its(their) overseas empire(s)?
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Week 7
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Why did most of the African continent come under the control of Europeans?
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Week 7
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Why did Lenin establish the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
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Week 8
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What factors promoted the collapse of the tsarist autocracy in Russia in Feb 1917?
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Week 9
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Define civilization.
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Week 1
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Define parliament.
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Week 2
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Who was Louis XIV?
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Week 2
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What was the Old (Ancient) Regime)?
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Week 2
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What was the Glorious Revolution?
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Week 2
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What was the Ottoman Empire?
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Week 3
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What was the Mughal Empire?
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Week 3
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What was the Safavid Empire?
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Week 3
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Suleiman?
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Week 3
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Who was Akbar?
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Week 3
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What was the Qing Dynasty?
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Week 4
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Tokugawa Shogunate?
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Week 4
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Who was Isaac Newton?
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Week 5
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Who was Voltaire?
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Week 5
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Who was Denis Diderot?
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Week 5
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Who was the Baron de Montesquieu?
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Week 5
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What was the Declaration of Independence?
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Week 5
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Who was Karl Marx?
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Week 6
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Define urbanization.
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Week 6
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Define moderization.
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Week 6
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What was the Industrial Revolution?
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Week 6
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Define romanticism.
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Week 6
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What was the Manchu Dynasty?
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Week 7
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What were the Opium Wars?
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Week 7
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Who was Porfirio Diaz?
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Week 7
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Who was Chinua Achebe?
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Week 7
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Define imperialism.
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Week 7
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Who was Lenin?
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Week 8
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Who was Stalin?
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Week 8
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Who were the Bolsheviks?
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Week 8
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