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control by certain states in western europe of distant areas between 15th and 20th centuries |
colonialism |
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the belief that the amount of wealth in the world is fixed, and that a state should try to gain as much of it as possible at the expense of other states |
mercantilism |
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motive of colonialism concerning luxury items or raw goods |
economic motive |
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motive of colonialism concerning strategic areas or locations |
strategic motive |
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motive of colonialism concerning the spread of religion and brining benefits of western society to a new location |
moral motive |
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a treat in which a line is drawn, spain gets everything west of it, and portugal gets everything east |
treaty of tordesillas 1494 |
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form of empire mainly by the dutch and portugal related to coastal regions with a strong economic motive and a weak moral motive |
sea empire |
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form of empire mainly by the spanish dealing with large areas and recreation of political systems in a colonized state strong moral and economic motive |
land empire |
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form of empire mainly by the british in which large migrations to new territory take place to establish colonies |
settler empire
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french colonialism |
metissage |
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trade routes between the americas, africa, and europe |
trans-atlantic triangle |
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explosion of intellectual, scientific, or artistic ideas |
renaissance or enlightenment |
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economy where most people work the land and produce their own goods |
subsistence economy |
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movement by english landowners to limit peasants access to common lands |
the enclosure movement (enclosure acts) |
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random new farming stuff |
convertible husbandry |
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millions of acres of farmland used for mass production of food, large farms, massive population explosion |
agriculture revolution |
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small farmers forced off lands because they cant compete with big farms |
detachment |
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domestic production (weavers spinning cotton at home) cotton plantations in colonies supply cotton, inventions in textile industry |
proto-industrialization |
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liberalism of the french revolution combined with the industrial revolution |
dual revolution |
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mass scale shift from production of simple tools to complex machines |
industrial revolution |
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development of water frame to make water run factories, steam engine improvements |
energy revolution |
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rigid schedule for workers with long days and little breaks |
the factory system |
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movement of people into a city |
urbanization |
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city-dwellers bought food and clothing in stores that offered a large variety of machine made goods, also worked in stores behind desks or counters multi-tenements for living |
market economy |
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change in social structure where some people moved up and created the middle class |
social transformation |
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80% of population, low wages, shitty work conditions, tenement housing |
the lower class
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industrial age offering new professions in entertainment, new jobs as sportsmen, leisure life now a thing |
la belle epoque |
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nations refusing to recognize interests other than their own, lots of pride |
competitive nationalism |
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real politics |
real politik |
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british imperialist that had monopoly on mines in africa and diamonds |
cecil rhodes |
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meeting to divide up africa like a pie |
the berlin conferences 1884 |
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the policy of industrialized states taking over less developed societies to increase their own economic, political, military, and social influence |
imperialism |
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european pattern of territorial control permanent reconfiguration of african societies |
political hegemony
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trans-atlantic triangle, extraction of raw goods, dual economy |
economic hegemony |
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taking control of education, language, religion, dress code, other stuff |
cultural hegemony |
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indians fighting off the british |
indian revolution 1857 |
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women being burned alive with dead husbands |
sati |
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direct rule and civilizing mission |
france |
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indirect rule |
great britain, germany, netherlands |
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brute force |
belgium and portugal |
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Ruled by king leopold II, had rubber trees (apparently rubber comes from trees) |
the belgian congo |
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group that is smaller and more culturally coherent, shared language, territorial attachment but NO STATE |
ethnic group |
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a group of people who share the same history and culture |
nation |
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a politically organized area on the earths surface that humans find significant |
territory |
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winners of peace treaty of versaille for wwi |
US and Japan |
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wilson's ideas of what should happen after wwi, concerning lands in europe, division of states, league of nations and stuff |
woodrow wilson's fourteen points |
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precursor to the UN that scumbag congress didn't let us join |
league of nations |
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radicalism of the right, intense nationalism, obedience to rules |
facism |
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political system thingy in germany |
nazism |
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consolidation of nazi rule |
the third reich |
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hitlers bodygard |
the SS (schutzstuffle) |
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secret nazi police to deal with domestic issues |
the gestapo |
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the nazi war machine |
the nazi war machine |
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FDR |
west germany (democarcy) |
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DDR |
east germany (communism) |