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Final Review
Final Review
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History
10th Grade
05/25/2011

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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Belived he discovered Asia, not the Americas
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Mercantilism
Definition

-Dominated economic thought in the 17th century

-Said prosperity of land depended on bullion, or gold and silver
-merchents in Southeast Asia dominated spice trade

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Gold Coast
Definition
Southern coast of West Africa
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Balence of Trade
Definition
Is the differnce in value between imports and exports
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Divine right of kings
Definition
Belief that kings get power from God
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Absolutism
Definition
ruler holds total power
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Copernicus
Definition
first to argue that the sun was the center of the universe
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Galileo
Definition
Heavenly bodies composed of material substance
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Adam smith-laissez faire
Definition
state or government should not regulate the economy
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France Estate-taille
Definition
tax only to commoners, or the third estate
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Napoleon
Definition
Was defeated at Waterloo
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Industrial revolution
Definition

-First production of cotton cloth

-most workforce were women and children by 1830

-land, reasources, and people made it start in England

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Liberalism
Definition
belief people should be free from government restraints
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Romanticism
Definition
emphasized feelings and imagination
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Middle and working class
Definition
social changes brought  about about about about by the Industrial Revolution
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Socialism
Definition
started because of poor conditions created by the industrial revolution
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Proletariat
Definition
working class opressed by the middle class acording to karl Marx
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Mohandas Gandhi
Definition
set up a nonviolent movement to grantindependencee for india from Britian
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Britain
Definition
Shipped opium to China to adjust the  trade imbalance
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The Black hand
Definition
conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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The centural powers of WWII were
Definition
Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire
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treaty of Versalles
Definition
was a treaty signed after WWI punishing Germany
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WWI was
Definition
total war
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Militarism
Definition
aggresive preperation for war
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Russia signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Definition
which gave up territory
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Mao Zedong
Definition
led the People Liberation Army on Long March
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A totalitarian state
Definition
aims to control the lives of it's citizens
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An Oligarchy
Definition
is a government in which a select few excersize control
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