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What was the Bessemer process?

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Allowed for manufacture of iron and steel cheaper, in larger quantities.

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What is the outstanding social effect of the development of labor system of production?

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Unemployment or decreased wages for skilled craftsmen.

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Which european political idea supported Monarchy?

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Conservatism.

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What is Conservatism?

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Traditions were time tested organic solutions to social and political problems led conservatives to defend monarchy.

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What is utilitarianism?

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Argued that human laws should be judged by their usefulness. “The greatest good for the greatest number of people”

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What was Lenin’s new economic plan?

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Allowed rural peasants and business operators to manage their own land and businesses to stimulate Russian economy

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What was Martin Luther’s theology?

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Salvation by faith and it could not be earned. (Gift from god) .

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What was the Council of Trent?

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It’s symbol was the defeat for those who wished for reconciliation between Protestants and the Roman church. Insisted Roman church was final arbiter in all matters of face.

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What is the 17th-century Bourbon monarchy in France? What degree of absolutism was achieved?

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A series of religious and dynastic wars in the 16th century produce a kingdom in which religious issue had been settled in favor of the Catholic majority. Led to low amounts of religious turmoil.

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The relative peace of the restoration period in England broke down when?

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James the second a stuart with a catholic wife and a desire to avenge his executed father ascended to the throne.

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Why did the labour party make the largest gains in the first decade of the 12th century?

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The increasing participation of the working-class in British politics that resulted from the cumulative reforms accounted for large gains by the Labor Party in the 12th century.

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what is the organization that advocated a broader notion off women’s rights in Brittain?

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Women’s rights and Political union.

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What was the Risorgimento?

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Italian nationalist movement during the mid nineteenth century. Composed of intellectuals.

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Why did the Risorgimento fail?

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Failed to win support of masses.

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Difference between European Asia imperialism and African imperialism?

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Unlike European imperialism in Africa European imperialism inAsia was exerted through local elites.

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Copernicanism supported?

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Heliocentric theory.

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The period of British history 1694-1660 which Britain was ruled without a monarch is known as?

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The commonwealth.

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What was neoplanetism?

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Located reality in a changeless world of spirit, or forms, and argued that mathematics gave knowledge of the spiritual world form.

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What did Beccaria argue In In Crime and Punishment?

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Beccaria extended the line of Enlightenment

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What was the most prevalent form of religious beliefs amongst philosophes?

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Deism.

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What is fritz langs film metropolis?

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A film depicting society in which humans are dwarfed in their own creation. Expresses the deep anxiety over the future that existed in 1920.

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In the first decade of the 20th century what did nationalities problem refer to?

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The presence of linguistic and ethnic minorities, such as Magyars, Czechs and slavs.

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What is Deism?

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Belief that the complexity, order, and natural laws exhibited by the universe were reasonable proofs that there was a god.

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In France England Spain the Renaissance was centered in?

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Royal courts do to the strong monarchy.

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What was unique about the anglican church?
Created by Henry VIII differed from Protestants churches it retained an episcopal structure.
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The most significant aspect of the social composition of renaissance art world was?
The apprenticeship system.
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Bismarks strategy of increasing Prussia's power by whatever means and strategies were necessary and useful has come to be known as?
Realpolitik. Increasing Prussian power by any means.
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In the late 19th century of France the Dreyfus Affair illustrated?
The strength of utranationalist and anti semitic sentiment in the French establishment.
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What was the Dreyfus affair?
The Dreyfus affair in which a group bigoted French army officers falsely accused Alfred Dreyfus a young Jewish captain of treason and the slowness of the French legal establishment to accept the evidence of Dreyfus's innocence. illustrated the strength of ultranationalism and Anti-Semitism in the French establishment.
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The landholding nobles of Central and Eastern Europe differed from those in Western Europe in the period 1600 through 1715 in that
Retained control of vast estates work by serfs.
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The enclosure movement in Britain was most directly a result of?
The development of market-oriented agriculture where crops were sold for cash rather than grown for winter survival most directly led to the movement on the part of landlords to enclose the traditional common land and family farmed land that characterized the more traditional manorial system of agriculture.
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Enlightened despotism refers to?
The ideas that powerful rulers would act to reform and rationalize European society.
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What did the march of Versailles that occurred in October 1789 illustrate?
The fact that the crowds of Paris did not yet look upon Louis the 16th as their enemy.
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The publication in 1632 of the dialogue of the world resulted in Galileo being called before the inquisition because
It blatantly ridiculed Aristotelean system in the vernacular italian.
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What is eugenics?
An outgrowth of strain of thought; social darwinism
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The German election of 1932 was signifcant because?
The nazi party won 35% of the vote.
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In the interwar years the reconstituted nations of eastern central Europe, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia
Came to be ruled by right-wing authoritarian regimes.
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Abstractionist painters..
Sought to analyze the essence of perception and experience.
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The treatment received by Alexander Solzhetisyn illustrated the soviet regimes ...
Expulsion of Solzhetisyn from Russians Writers union for publishing novel that were not approved by Soviet censors showed the soviet regime's illustrated insistence on absolute conformity.
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What is the Concordat of 1801
An agreement between Napoleon and the pope that the French clergy would be chosen and paid by the French state but consecrated by the pope.
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Radical break with tradition and convention ushered in by the French revolution was experienced through art by?
The rejection of the dominant rococo aesthetic in favor of a neoclassical style.
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The Frankfurt assembly's decision in 1848 to offer Frederick William the fourth of Prussia the crown of a United Germany illustrates?
The attempt to unify Italy through the Catholic Church.
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The sepoy rebellion..
Lead to the British government controlling India directly.
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The Boulanger affair (1880)
Underscored the fragility of French democracy and the volatility of mass politics in France. Was an attempted coup that was supported by conservative nationalist who refused to accept the election of a liberal government.
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The encyclopedia of the late 18th century was considered radical because
It labeled anything not based on reason as superstition.
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How does the taiping rebellion connect to European history?
Western encroachment undermined the power of the ruling dynasty.
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What is the Marburg Colloquy?
A debate between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli (Sweden) on how to unify the Protestant Leaders with for the Catholic church front.
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Thirty years war?
Series of wars in central Europe involving most of its countries .Caused by exclusion of calvinist from the Peace of Ausburg.
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95 thesis
Luther pinned this in town to express how much he was against some practices and indulgences.
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Treaty of Lodi?
Peace treaty between Venice and Milan. established a balance of powers.
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What did Henry VII accomplish?
Stopped allowing noble, men to maintain private armies. Implemented star chamber (interrogation without rights infringed.) Used diplomacy Pushed to expand wool trade.
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Peace of Augsburg.
Allowed imperial princes to decide the religion of their region.
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Edict of Nantes.
Granted Huguenots liberty of public worship, created by Henry VIII.
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Peace of Westphalia
Treaty signed to end thirty year war.
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What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth.
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Italy had been a trade-route between
Central and western Europe and the Middle East Venice made a lot of money.
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How does the city of Florence get wealthy
Off of the wool industry in the 15th century the Medici family was the leading economic family of Florence
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What is the clergy do and then what does the nobility do
Clergy happy responsibility for the spiritual well-being of the people but were often corrupt more concerned with art Nobility needed to provide security justic to everyone nobility oh meet up about 2 to 3% of the total population the nobility was referred to as the second Estate
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Who was Balthasar Castiglione?
Wrote the book of courtier giving idea to what the courtier needed to be like.
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What is humanism
Movement/form of education that attempted to look at the liberal arts for understanding human is tend to be laymen and not the clergy.
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What did the school built in Mantua teach
In 1423 mantilla was built to teach children the classical authors and the liberal arts were taught
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What were the liberal arts
History philosophy eloquence grammar and logic poetry math astronomy and music
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What was the Hundred Years War?
A struggle between France and England over succession to the French throne. Country was now finally unified.
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Louis XI
Annexed the territory of Burgundy expanded the borders of the kingdom.
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Hapsburg Wars.
French and Austrians were called the Hapsburg Valois Wars.
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result of the hundred years war?
British economy nearly bankrupt stripped the nation of almost all it's Continental holdings an advantage was it all out the British government concentrate more the British Isles.
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Diocese
Area under jurisdiction of a christian bishop.
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Who was Cardinal Ximenes
Appointed by Isabelle and Ferdinand to reform and purify catholic church. So imquisition to perscute or convert.
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1st Hapsburg Valois Wars
Between Hapsburg (Austria-Spain) and the Valois (French) over a large portion of Europe.
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2nd Hapsburg war.
Charles v defeats Rome with Francis 1
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Calvinism
"Predestination" God already had a set path for people.
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Huguenots
French Calvinist.

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