A review of vocabulary for World History 1500AD to Present
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| show | monotheism
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| belief in many gods; Hinduism | show 🗑
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| past deeds will determine the future; Hinduism | show 🗑
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| show | Torah
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| show | Quran/Koran
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| show | The Bible (Old--from Judaism--and New Testament)
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| holy book of Hinduism | show 🗑
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| God's son Jesus is call the _________. | show 🗑
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| Given to Moses on the mountain; rules to follow | show 🗑
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| holy war predicted by Muslims | show 🗑
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| show | trinity
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| show | Five Pillars
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| show | Ramadan
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| Hindu belief in many lives; can also apply to Buddhism | show 🗑
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| show | caste system
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| Buddhist beliefs: suffering exists; material desires cause suffering; get rid of desires and no more suffering; reach nirvana | show 🗑
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| show | Eightfold Path
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| Buddha; when you understand the meaning of life you have become ___________. | show 🗑
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| ultimate goal for Buddhists is to reach __________. | show 🗑
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| Religious war among German princes; Protestants vs. Catholics; ended with the Peace of Augsburg | show 🗑
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| show | Catholic Church
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| speaking out against the Catholic Church; Galileo was accused of this and brought before the Inquisition | show 🗑
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| Italian word for rebirth of Greek and Roman culture | show 🗑
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| belief led by Erasmus; focus on individual and study of the classical Greek and Roman culture | show 🗑
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| invention which allowed the spread of the Renaissance and Reformation; developed by Gutenberg | show 🗑
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| show | indulgences
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| show | usury
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| Luther nailed these on a church door; protests against the Catholic Church | show 🗑
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| Calvin's belief that God has already chosen who would be let into heaven | show 🗑
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| Church of England created by Henry VIII | show 🗑
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| Catholic church group that punished those who spoke out against the Church; condemned Galileo | show 🗑
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| show | Counter-Reformation
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| show | Jesuits
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| show | God, Glory, and Gold
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| show | circumnavigate
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| show | spices
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| Spanish conqueror like Cortez and Pizarro | show 🗑
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| show | colony
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| show | Columbian Exchange
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| show | plantations
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| show | bullion
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| 3 legs of trade between Africa, New World, and Europe | show 🗑
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| show | Middle Passage
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| show | sugar cane
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| many Native Americans died because Europeans brought this to the New World | show 🗑
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| Spanish laws which forced Native Americans into a kind of slavery | show 🗑
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| show | divine right
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| type of monarch who has complete power | show 🗑
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| show | Huguenots
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| Peter the Great modernized his country when he made his people adapt to the customs and culture of of countries in the west of Europe | show 🗑
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| show | Edict of Nantes
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| show | militarism
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| L'etat cest moi | show 🗑
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| Earth is the center of the universe | show 🗑
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| sun is the center of the universe; Copernicus | show 🗑
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| steps used for experiments; developed by Francis Bacon | show 🗑
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| show | life, liberty, and property
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| French term for philosopher | show 🗑
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| Age when reason replaced religion; marked an end to superstition | show 🗑
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| strong pride in your country or culture; spread by Napoleon; major reason for unification of Italy and Germany | show 🗑
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| show | Bill of Rights
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| show | Parliament
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| English Civil War; group led by Cromwell; cut their hair short in protests to the nobility's custom of wearing long hair | show 🗑
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| English Civil War; supporters of King Charles I | show 🗑
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| This event kicked James II off the throne of England and placed his daughter as ruler along with her husband; no bloodshed | show 🗑
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| Document written by Jefferson; marked the beginning of the American colonies split from their mother country, England; Jefferson used Locke's ideas in this document | show 🗑
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| first violent event of the French Revolution occured at this prison; celebrated like our July 4th | show 🗑
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| show | Reign of Terror
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| show | Napoleonic Code
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| show | Third Estate
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| show | Tennis Court Oath
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| meeting of European countries after Napoleon's fall; conservative; wanted to return Europe to the way it was before the French Revolution; successful diplomatic effort that kept peace in Europe for the next 40 years | show 🗑
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| people who think change is good; wanted more freedoms and rights | show 🗑
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| show | conservatives
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| show | Revolutions of 1848
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| belief of Bismarck to do whatever it takes to get the job done | show 🗑
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| show | realist
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| show | Franco-Prussian War
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| Garibaldi's army that united the south of Italy | show 🗑
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| Japenese leader or ruler | show 🗑
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| show | mercantilism
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| show | isolationism
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| show | foreign enclaves
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| show | Renaissance man
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| show | exports
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| show | raw
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| show | Enclosure Movement
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| show | Industrial Revolution
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| show | entrepreneur
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| these were formed in order to give people better working conditions | show 🗑
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| show | suffrage
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| show | capitalism
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| belief by Adam Smith that government should leave businesses alone | show 🗑
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| developed by Karl Marx; belief that everybody should be equal; government controls all factors of production | show 🗑
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| show | proletariat
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| European period when countries tried to conquer and control places all over the world; creation of empires | show 🗑
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| rebellion where Indian soldiers rebeled against the British rule of their country | show 🗑
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| show | East India Company
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| show | mother country
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| show | sphere of influence
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| when a country is strongly influenced by a foreign, European country | show 🗑
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| Chinese rebellion against Christianity and foreigners | show 🗑
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| non-violent protest; practiced by Mandela and Gandhi | show 🗑
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| countries form these for protection in case they are attacked | show 🗑
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| World War I; consisted of Britain, France, and Russia | show 🗑
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| World War I; alliance among Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire | show 🗑
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| Name the ship which contributed to the US entering World War I | show 🗑
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| show | Zimmerman Note
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| Wilson's plan for peace | show 🗑
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| show | League of Nations
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| Period of tremendous economic failure; allowed Hitler to gain power in Germany; affected the entire world | show 🗑
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| show | Stock Market Crash of 1929
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| belief in militarism and extreme nationalism | show 🗑
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| when the government has complete control over the people; popular in Europe during the 1930s | show 🗑
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| show | Nazism
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| show | Fascism
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| Lenin's plan to industrialize the Soviet Union | show 🗑
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| Stalin's plan to modernize the Soviet Union | show 🗑
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| show | appeasement
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| Hitler's lightening war | show 🗑
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| show | United Nations
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| show | superpowers
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| show | Atomic Bomb
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| type of warfare used during World War I | show 🗑
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| World War II alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan | show 🗑
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| World War II alliance of Britain, France, US, and Soviet Union | show 🗑
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| show | anti-semetism
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| systemic killing of a whole group of people because of religious or ethnic differences | show 🗑
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| show | the Killing Fields
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| show | Holocaust
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| show | cold war
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| belief that if one country fell to communism, all surrounding countries would soon become communist as well | show 🗑
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| statement which said the US would stop the spread of communism | show 🗑
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| Churchill's metaphor for the barrier of communist Europe and democratic Europe | show 🗑
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| show | Korean War
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| plan to rebuild Europe after World War II | show 🗑
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| defensive alliance consisting of the US and western Europe during the Cold War | show 🗑
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| show | Warsaw Pact
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| show | Berlin Wall
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| when the USSR placed missiles 90 miles off the coast of Florida; Kennedy was President during this event which almost started World War III | show 🗑
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| policy that believed the more nuclear weapons one country builds, the less chance of war because other countries would be afraid | show 🗑
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| competition between the US and USSR to build the most nuclear weapons | show 🗑
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| Chinese group which believed in democracy; led by Chiang Kai Shek | show 🗑
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| conflict during the Cold War; the US eventually pulled out and the entire country became communist | show 🗑
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| show | apartheid
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| show | NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement)
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| show | OPEC
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| show | WTO (World Trade Org.)
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| economic organization in Europe to try to compete with the US | show 🗑
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| show | IMF (International Monetary Fund)
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| Chinese trade route | show 🗑
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| show | Ottoman Empire
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| Traded gold, salt in Africa | show 🗑
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| Built "Taj Mahjal" | show 🗑
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| Indian empire of Mexico | show 🗑
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| show | Inca
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| Pyramids, Astronomy | show 🗑
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| Means "Rebirth" | show 🗑
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| Renaissance began here | show 🗑
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| show | Michelangelo
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| show | Shakespeare
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| Christian humanist | show 🗑
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| show | Christianity
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| show | Hinduism
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| show | Buddhism
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| Main religion of North Africa | show 🗑
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| show | Sahara
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| Importance of trade routes | show 🗑
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| show | China
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| show | Middle East
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| upset Martin Luther | show 🗑
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| Luther belief | show 🗑
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| Luther protest | show 🗑
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| John Calvin belief | show 🗑
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| Henry VIII issue | show 🗑
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| show | Germany
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| War between Catholics and Protestants | show 🗑
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| National Church of England | show 🗑
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| spread Catholic doctrine | show 🗑
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| Trials to reinforce Catholic beliefs | show 🗑
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| show | printing press
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| helped spread ideas of the Renaissance | show 🗑
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| started school of navigation | show 🗑
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| show | Vasco da Gama
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| discovered America | show 🗑
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| show | Hernan Cortez
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| show | Pizarro
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| explored Canada for France | show 🗑
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| 2 religious groups that came to America | show 🗑
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| another name for Native Americans | show 🗑
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| show | the Americas
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| horses, cattle, diseases came from here | show 🗑
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| show | Islamic sailors
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| show | Europe, Africa, the Americas
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| show | slaves,sugar,rum
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| show | gold, silver
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| show | Spain
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| Traded coffee and ceramics | show 🗑
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| location of Mughal Empire | show 🗑
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| Famous Mughal tomb | show 🗑
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| Product of India that Europeans wanted | show 🗑
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| show | China
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| powerless emperor, rule by shoguns | show 🗑
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| adopted policy of isolation to limit foreign influences | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial Revolution
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| show | Whigs and Tories
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| Type of English government after 1689 | show 🗑
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| "Leviathan"; ruler must have authority | show 🗑
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| show | Montesquieu
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| U.S. documents that contain Enlightenment ideas | show 🗑
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| Revolution which most influenced the French Revolution | show 🗑
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| Paris prison stormed on July 14, 1789 | show 🗑
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| Thousands guillotined during this period of the French Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | Napoleon
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| show | balance of power
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| show | Conservatives
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| show | 1848
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| show | Johann Sebastian Bach
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| Austrian composer | show 🗑
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| show | Papal States
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| war which led to the creation of Germany | show 🗑
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| show | Bismarck
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| natural resources needed for industry | show 🗑
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| show | Enclosure Movement
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| show | Urbanization
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| group that grew the most during the industrial revolution | show 🗑
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| show | women, children
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| show | cotton gin
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| formed to improve working conditions | show 🗑
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| type of imperialism with direct control | show 🗑
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| type of imperialism with partial control | show 🗑
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| show | sphere of influence
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| important canal in Egypt | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty of Versailles
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| show | Russia
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| Lenin's successor | show 🗑
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| group that led Russian Revolution | show 🗑
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| created after WWI to administer colonies on a temporary basis | show 🗑
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| show | France, Great Britain
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| One cause of the Great Depression was German payments or________ | show 🗑
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| High protective_________ helped cause the Great Depression | show 🗑
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| show | Great Purge
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| hatred of Jews | show 🗑
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| show | Ethiopia
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| Area of China invaded by Japanese | show 🗑
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| show | D-Day
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| show | Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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| show | Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
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| show | Great Britain, Soviet Union
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| U.S. President during most of WWII | show 🗑
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| show | Final Solution/Holocaust
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| show | Armenian
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| Genocide of Tutsi minority by Hutu here | show 🗑
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| show | Yugoslavia
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| show | Nuremberg
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| Western European military alliance formed in 1949 | show 🗑
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| show | East
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| show | Japan
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| show | Yalta
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| U.S. President that created "containment" policy | show 🗑
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| show | satellites
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| show | North Korea
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| show | Berlin Wall
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| Missiles placed here in 1962 by USSR | show 🗑
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| separation of races in South Africa | show 🗑
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| show | percieved threat of Japanese imperialism
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