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Unit 5
Term | Definition |
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What is absolutism? | monarchy controls everything |
What economic theory leaves "every man for himself"? | Capitalism |
Root word of imperialism? | Empire |
When did western hemisphere free itself from European control? | Early 1800s |
What is ethnocentrism | Belief that your culture, race, religion, and government is best |
What is pride in one's country instead of a specific leader? | Nationalism |
What group of people applied the theory of natural selection to sociology? | Social Darwinists |
What is "white man's burden"? | Europeans have the moral obligation to teach others how to be civilized |
Why was China called the Middle Kingdom | They believed they were at the center of the world |
What are new technologies that were developed in the Industrial Revolution? | Telegraph, telephone, radio, national postal system, steamship, railroad, trains |
What is a big farm that only produces one crop? | A plantation |
What was the Monroe Doctrine | President Monroe said that Europeans could NOT intervene with countries in the Western Hemisphere |
What made Egypt a significant commercial and political power? | Suez Canal |
England gets opium from India and sells it to? | China |
The opium lets what flow out of China? | Silver |