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54 Cards in this Set
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The golden age brought unity between who? |
Peace w Scotland & England |
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What happened to the arts? |
They flourished |
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What did Henry VIII do? |
Stood up Rome |
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What did english seafares do? |
Roamed the world discovering new routes & laying out foundations for the British empire |
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What happened in the 17 century? |
Peace |
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What was Britian? |
A small power, after Empire crumbled |
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What was England dominated by? |
Feudal System |
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What did the tutors do? |
Gradually bought the great lords under control and allowed a merchant class to grow |
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What was Henry's break with rome about? |
Wealth not religion |
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What happened in the 17 century? |
Middle class growing under monorchial and aristorcrate rule |
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The triumph of parliament was a sucess for who? |
Middle class |
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When did the industry of growth change? |
19th century |
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What was the world of wars about? |
Economy mastery of the globe |
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Life expectancy? |
30 yrs old |
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When did women get their rights? |
18th century |
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What was the industrial revolution? |
Opened up jobs for women |
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2 world wars helped women do what? |
Helped change it to a male dominant society |
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What year was contraception around? |
1945 |
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What viewpoint is best? |
None of these perspectives are wrong. Class exploitation- Pill, women's rights |
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Ideology |
meaning that it is a set of standards that are followed by people, government |
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humanism |
any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests,values, and dignity predominate. |
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individualism |
advocating rights |
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secularism |
system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship |
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Skepticism |
doubt or unbelief with regard to a religion |
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Gov't |
form of democracy |
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empire |
richest biggest empire in the world |
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roman law |
style of roman law and the rights of individual citizens became the basis for most western systems
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Agricultural civil engineering |
inspiration for renaisance and western agriculture long after romes collapse |
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Pax romana |
peace for trade and travel with in the boundaries of rome created economic prosperity |
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Great god theory |
Gods are in control, shape and direct things. |
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Great person theory |
people change and shape history, often working as agents of the gods or god |
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economic/ marxist theory |
history shaped by economics and the way people organize themselves and their lives in order to live |
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Scientific objective school |
historians job is to show the past as it really happened, facts will dictate what kind of history is written |
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relatvist school |
each generation will interpret history from their current context of society and culture |
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What does outside mean? |
facts are confirmed |
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What does inside mean? |
questions and speculations we make about what players are thinking and motivivated by in history |
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radical school |
accuse historians of failing to stand up to the truth, historians should not not suppress a passion for humanity and human suffering and desire to see a better can explain and be a motivator and shaper of todays society |
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posititivist school |
do not take into account individual influence or chance, approach history thinking that all explanations as in science are deductive, things are only explained if they can be shown to follow a law |
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lower class = |
plebeians |
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what are plebeians |
landowners |
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where were captured slaves sent |
rome |
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why are bread and circuses are required |
become a source of man power |
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percent of rich, slaves and very poor |
5%, 40%, 55% |
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how many years until soldiers were rewarded with land? |
15-20 yrs of service |
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where did roman soldiers settle |
in colonies |
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rome slipped into what? |
civil wars |
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disease swept rome and killed what % |
25% |
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what happened when economies weakened |
taxes reduced |
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what is chrisitanity |
faith of love, forgiveness and kidness |
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drought in asia created a what |
mass migration v |
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rome had a what? |
labour shortage and needed money and soldiers |
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domesday book |
talks about diferent things what the manor is called, who held it in the time of king Edward, who holds now; how many hides, how many plows in demesne, how many belonging to the men, how many villains, how many cottars, how many serfs |
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black death |
30%-40% mortality rate poor died more than rich family structure, society breaks down |
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rules of love |
different rules about love |