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- Liberalism
- a political philosophy originally based largely on enlightenment principles, holding that people should be as a free as possible from government restraint and that civil liberties-the basic rights of all people- should be protected.
- apartheid
- apartness, the system of racial segregation in south Africa from 1950sto 1991
- sans collates
- without breeches, members of the Paris commune who considered themselves ordinary patriots
- Tennis court oath
- the third estate met at the national assembly and decided to draft a constitution. When they came back three days later, the meeting house doors were locked, so they moved to the tennis court and swore they would continue to meet until they produced a French constitution.
- Tai ping rebellion
- the Chinese government was unable to deal with the economic problems at the time, so Hong Xiuguan started a rebellion.
- open door policy
- in china incased it collapsed, other countries wanted to make sure that they didn't loose money.
- bourgeoisie
- the middle class, including merchants, industries, and professional people
- treaty of Nanjing
- with the British, gave them Hong Kong, extraterritoriality, and paid for the new ports
- civil disobedience
- refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust
- relics of feudalism
- obligations of peasants to noble landlords that survived into the modern era.
- Socialism
- a system in which society, usually in the form of government, owns and controls the means of production
- principle of intervention
- the idea that great powers have the right to send armies into countries where there are revolutions to restore legitimate governments
- boxer rebellion
- it was run by members of a group that practiced shadow boxing. They disliked Chinese missionaries.
- spheres of influence
- an area in which a foreign power has been grantedExclusive rights and privileges, such as trading rights and mining privileges
- genocide
- the deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
- self strengthening
- a policy is promoted by reformers toward the end of the Qing dynasty under which china would adopt western technology while keeping its Confucian values and institutions.
- Suez canal
- a canal in Egypt which Europeans thought was a lifeline to India
- indirect rule
- colonial government in which local rulers are allowed to maintain their positions of authority, and status
- pan-africanism
- the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries
- Sharpsville massacre
- thousands of unarmed blacks were fired upon by south African police
- treaty of Tianjin
- legalized opium, open ports
- nationalism
- the unique cultural identity of a people a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols
- Bantustans
- black homeland
- imperialism
- the extension of a nation's power over there lands
- Mao's long march
- peoples liberation army marched 6,000 miles to reach the last surviving communist base in the northwest china
- reign of terror
- they killed thousands with guillotines because they were against the revolution