Klingman Final Exam Vocab, Terms, People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 standardized | when taxes are the same for everybody because they meet a standard |
| republic | a type of government where the people choose their representatives |
| radicals | people who wanted change immediately- they wanted independence and to break away from the king |
| loyalist | people who were loyal to the king and didnt want their independence |
| navigator | someone that determines the direction you are supposed to travel |
| cartographer | map makers |
| outsourcing | when a company in a country hires a person or group in another country to perform a task that cuts labor cost |
| technology | the application of scientific knowledge to a practical purpose |
| reperations | the cost a country has to pay for repairs and damages that were caused by that country |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| physiocrat | a person who applies natural law to economics |
| philosophe | a person who applies natural law to society |
| inflation | when there is too much money- the value of the dollar goes down and prices rise |
| open sourcing | when the developers of a software make the source code of the software available so that people can look at, modify and redistribute the product for free |
| free trade | a trade policy that allows countries to trade with one another without government interferences |
| globalization | an international network of different views that connects economies, societies, and cultures by trade and communication |
| urbanization | a large migration or movement of people from rural areas into cities |
| utilitarianism | whatever you do should bring the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people |
| ultimatum | final set of demands |
| alliance | an agreement to help each other out |
| laissez-faire | the government stays out of the peoples business |
| mercantilism | strict control over business/trade |
| censorship | when the government or church restricts access to information |
| salon | informal meetings to discuss writings and new ideas |
| monopoly | a country, company or group that has absolute control over trade or business because there is no other competition |
| pacifist | someone who is opposed to war and violence no matter what |
| entente | an alliance that is non binding-countries can get out of it |
| stalemate | neither side has an advantage during the war-no one can win |
| conscription | was a draft that forced men to serve in the army by the government |
| revolution | a big sudden change |
| nationalism | when people think that their country is better than any other country |
| imperialism | when an empire takes over other land forcefully |
| militarism | when all countries think they have the strongest military |
| social darwinism | is the idea that the stronger countries are going to survive over the weaker countries- survival of the fittest |
| pan-slavism | when slavic people in europe wanted their own country |
| capitalism | an economic system that allows people to invest their money to make a profit, and includes free enterprise |
| communism | a type of government that eliminates private ownership and social classes because the government owns everything |
| propaganda | a way of trying to influence public opinion to support your side |
| reign of terror | Robespierre was in charge of it and it was to eliminate all opposition of the revolution- killed 40,000 people |
| bloody sunday | in january 1905 workers protested against the living and working conditions and they wanted a representative government- strikes broke out and many people were killed |
| line of demarcation | a line drawn by the pope that divided the land so that Spain and Portugal could not fight over land |
| mayflower compact | a document that contained a list of rules they were all agreed to follow, it established self government, democracy and leads to foundation of us constitution |
| joint stock company | a type of company where the people put their money together to start a business |
| separation of power | when power in a country is divided up into 3 branches: legislative, judicial and executive |
| federalism | when power of a country is divided into levels: city, state, and federal |
| general cause | something that triggers a war over a period of time |
| immediate cause | something that immediately triggers a war |
| the great purge | when stalin eliminated anybody who was not communist |
| john locke | believed in natural rights: life, liberty, and property |
| two treatises of government | written by john locke power should come from the consent of the government |
| hernan cortez | conquistador of mexico and took over the aztec island |
| francisco pizzaro | founded peru and took over the incan land |
| ferdinand magellan | the first man to circumnavigate the world he sailed to the spice islands |
| thomas friedman | wrote the world is flat |
| thomas malthus | economist- he thought that poor people should stop having children |
| adam smith | started division of labor wrote the wealth of nations |
| alfred nobel | created dynamite when he died he left money for the nobel prize awards |
| big 4 | woodrow wilson (USA), georges clemenceau ( FRANCE), David Lloyd George (GREAT BRITIAN), Vittorio Orlando (ITALY) |
| francis ferdinand | archduke of austria-hungary was assassinated and cause WW1 |
| gavrillo princip | a slav that assassinated francis ferdinand and was a member of the black hand |
| grigori rasputin | a self proclaimed holy man who referred to himself as a monk he was murdered because people thought he was making government decisions while the czar was at war |
| robespierre | led the reign of terror wanted to eliminate all people who wanted a revolution in france |
| lenin | leader of the bolsheviks led the communist government during the russian civil war |
| alexander kerensky | was a leader of the russian duma became leader of the provisional government didnt take the army out of war- his biggest fail |
| joseph stalin | leader of russia after civil war strong communist and eliminated everybody who wasn't communist |
| napoleon | ambitious military leader who he created standardized taxes and public education created the napoleonic code: religious toleration, jobs are earned, everyone is equal |
| julius martov | led the mensheviks |
| vasco de gamma | first man to sail around the tip of africa and get to india |
| christopher columbus | first to sail and find america |
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