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- the triple entente
- the allied countries of Russia, Britain, and France
- checks and balances
- the separation of the powers in each form of government branch
- cottage industry
- during the 18th century when the production of inexpensive cotton goods came into the picture
- genocide
- deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
- treaty of Versailles
- a treaty signed after world war one. involving that Germany would quiet down and become a allie. forcing them to let all the jews out of the camps. this ended WWI
- Puritans
- also known as the pilgrims, travelled across the seas to find a new land
- Columbus
- in search for America, actually landed on India first
- Marconi
- invented the very first radio
- Ghandi
- became active in a independence movement and tried to bring peace
- textile
- flexible material comprised of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn.
- the triple alliance
- the allied countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
- committee of public safety
- set up by the National Convection due to the reign of terror while the French revolution was going on
- Franz ferdinand
- was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary before his assassination that shortly started world war one
- guillotine
- used to execute people during "the reign of terror"
- James Watt
- invented the very first steam engine in the industrial revolution. he came across the idea when he was making a cup of tea.
- Alexander Graham Bell
- invented the telephone
- Martin Luther
- opposed the belief that you could "buy your way out of your sins. The creator of the ninety-five theses.
- radicals
- they want change in the government
- Thomas Edison
- invented the very first light bulb
- socialism
- the ownage of some means of production usually by government, the property being factories or utilities
- imperialism
- the extension of a nations power over other lands
- Henry Ford
- the maker of the model T
- sepoy
- hired as indian soldiers and helped during the war but then finished when they thought that pig fat was used for ammunition
- Karl Marx
- writer of the communist manifesto
- holocaust
- millions of jews sent to concentration camps and being exterminated due to the rise of Hitler
- Magna Carta
- gave the king the right to renounce certain rights from his people
- the government branches
- judicial, legislative, and executive
- Natural rights
- John Locke believed all people were born with this
- middle passage
- the transportation of all slaves to different areas
- Maximilian Robiesphere
- responsible for the reign of terror
- enlightenment
- a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.
- absolutism
- political system in which there is no legal, customary, or moral limit on the government's power.
- slaves
- are held against their will and are sold to someone to do whatever that person wants
- depression
- when the stock market crashed and the world that we once knew and all the money and jobs went into extreme downfall
- militarism
- reliance on the military strength
- supply and demand
- determines price and quantity sold in a market
- Magellan
- founded the Philippine Islands but soon was overstaying his welcome, and was shot with a poisonous arrow
- Davinci
- painted the Mona Lisa
- Stalin
- once a great leader of the Soviet Union
- HenryVII
- wanted a divorce from his wife because she didn't bear a son. So he broke away from the church
- waterloo
- the place where the archduke of Austria-Hungary got assassinated
- Boers
- original dutch settlers occupying south Africa
- Charles Darwin
- developed his theory on "survival of the fittest"
- John Locke
- believed that all people had natural rights, and could rebell against the government if they weren't doing their job right