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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Famous American banker - Dutch heritage

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John Adams

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sought Dutch loans for the American Revolution

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Creates art where one person in painting is looking at audience

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Starry Night - not too happy person

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Baruch Spinoza

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Natural philosopher - advocated nationalism for Jewish religion

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Robert Turgot

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Tried to revise nobility

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Robert Guillotine

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Created Guillotine

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Jewish Quarter

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Safe space for Jews

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Anne Frank

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Emblematic of Jewish experience in Amsterdam

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The Hague

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International court of justice

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Monsoon market place

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Indian ocean trade network

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French/Indian war

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France and Britain both wanted America - Indians sided with both sides

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Stamp Act

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1765.- taxed everything

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Townshend Acts

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Taxed more things - like Stamp Act

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Boston Masssacre

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1770 - lots of people died due to revolutions

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The Suns of the Liberty

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Attacked tax collectors - group boarded ship and tossed tea (Boston Tea Party)

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Tithe

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People who collected taxes

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Bourgeoisie

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Middle Class - comprised of city workers, merchants, manufacturers, lawyers, doctors, and peasants

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Estates General

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Wanted fo fix issues that king or queen didn’t see

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The National Assembly

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Formed by 3rd estate

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Tennis Court Oath

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Peasants formed alliance that they would never dismantle until change occured

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The Bastille

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July 14, 1789 - commoners went into prison demanding the soldier to get gun powder; broke in and freed a lot of prisoners

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The Great Fear

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July 1789 - believed that there were robbers so people armed themselves but there were no robbers so instead they raged against landlords now as they were armed

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The March on Versailles

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October 1789 - People were hungry and starving - women were angry, struggling to find food - stormed palace

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National Assembly
assembly formed by the working class: Abolish feudal customs that existed before Ended serfdom Still have farmers though Ended tax-exempt privileges of nobles Ordered protection of personal property Passed legislation
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Declaration of Rights of Man
Passed declaration - start of democratic Equality of citizens Protected personal property Life, Liberty, Property
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Jacobins - Radicals
Wanted change Led by Maximillien Robespierre
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The Reign of Terror
Led by Maximilien Robespierre - the committee of public safety - killed anyone who was still supporting the monarchy
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Directory
Constitution of 1795 - corrupted; struggling
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Napolean
Looked down upon in France as teen Began as junior officer - strong military success Became emperor of France eventually
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Coup d'Etat
Seizure of power over French Government - Napolean
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The Spanish Ulcer
Peninsular War
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Battle of Waterloo
Napolean was defeated
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Czar Alexander I
Russia
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Frederick William III
Prussia
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Lord Castlereagh
England
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Charles Talleyrand
France; survived almost everything
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Prince Metternich
Austria
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Metternich System
Reflected growing conservatism - reaction to Napolean * Civil Liberties * Legitimacy * Status Quo * Suppress Democracy * Suppress Nationalism * Palance of Power
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Sources of Inspiration for Composers
Invocation of countryside Invocation of Folk Music Invocation of national literature Martial marching music tradition Cross-pollination multiple world cultures
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Eroica symphony - scratched out Napoleans name because Beethoven realized Napolean did everything just to become emperor
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Richard Wagner
German music and German pride Created Gesamtkunstwerk Controversies - needed to separate artist from music - good music bad guy
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Gesamtkunstwerk
Total art work - directory controls all aspects of art production
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Giuseppe Verdi
1870 - coincides with Italian Risorgimento
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Revanche
Revenge
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Jean Sibelus
Finlandia - Finnish; most Patriotic European music
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Crystal Palace
Pax Britannica (peace in Europe); Britain show and tell
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Adam Smith
No government interference - Wealth of Nations
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Thomas Malthus
Population grows - can not provide for them; need ways to decrease population so that society can survive; Malthusian Trap
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David Ricardo
Low wages - less kids - shortages of workers - high wages - high wages - more kids - more workers - low wages; Iron Law of Wages; Dismissal Science
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Jeremy Bentham
No government involvement until people are in misery; If it's not broken don't fix it
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John Stuart Mill
Proposed active reforms - solve industries' problems; liberal policies (right to vote, better education, etc...) - brilliant English thinker of the century
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Capitalism
Production is privately owned
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Socialism
Production owned by workers or state
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Robert Owen
Sets up model industrial community in 1800s; better conditions, safer, sanitary, high wages, schools, etc...
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Charles Fourier
Phalansteries - model community as well; do what you are talented at and share profits - failed
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Louis Blanc
Cooperative workshops with financial support from government; Natural system - "From each according to ability, to each according to need"
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Karl Marx
Scientific socialism - history is ruled by laws of nature; believed there were laws that predicted human trajectory - if you were poor you were poor and if you were rich you were rich
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Frederick Engles
blamed industrial capitalism for poor conditions - wrote Communist Manifesto; proposed idea of communism
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Bourgeoisie
Middle Class - factory owners
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Proletariat
Working class

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