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| Taking over other countries to make an empire |
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| Gaining economic benefits from other countries, without actually conquering them |
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| Confidence in human ability to understand the world, and to improve it |
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Spanish for "reconquest."
Name of the wars when Christian armies drove the Moors (Muslim) out of Spain |
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Started by Martin Luther.
Branch of Christianity with the following views:
Not led by the pope
Salvation by faith, not works
Bible is the only source of religious truth |
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| Warriors in medieval Japan |
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| One who believes in equal rights for women |
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| Social ownership (group ownership) of property; opposite of capitalism |
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Socialism plus one-party rule.
Example: China under Mao |
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Launched by Mao, with these purposes:
-Complete the change to communism, by ending private property
- Get rid of the "olds" (old ideas, Western influences)
- Eliminate Mao's rival, Liu Shaoqi |
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| Young people who were active in China's Cultural Revolution |
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| Private ownership of property |
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| Hijra - Muhammad's flight to Mecca |
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| Korea: first book printed using movable metal type |
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| Askia Muhammad Ture takes control of Songhai Empire |
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| Louis XIV in France; Peter the Great in Russia |
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| Britain: Beginning of industrial revolution |
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| China: Treaty of Nanjing ends Opium War |
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| Japan: Meiji Restoration. Beginning of Japan's modernization |
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| Korea: Fall of CHoson Dynasty, as Korea is taken over by Japan |
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| End of World War II. End of Japanese empire |
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| Cold War. USSR and USA as rival superpowers |
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| China: Mao founds Communist State |
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| Chile: Allende overthrown; Pinochet takes over |
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| Nicaragua: End of Contra war |
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| El Savlador: End of guerrilla war |
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