World History

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World History

• Third Nine Weeks Review

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Exploration

• Vasco da Gamas discovery of a route to India by
  sea proved to be very profitable, since da Gama
  returned with a cargo of spices and made a profit
  of several thousand percent.

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Industrial Revolution

• The steam engine was crucial to Britains
  Industrial Revolution.

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Exploration

• Christopher Columbus went to his grave believing
  he had discovered a westward passage to Asia,
  when in fact he had actually discovered the
  Americas.

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Economics

• Mercantilism was the set of principles that
  dominated economic thought in the seventeenth
  century.

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French Revolution

• Napoleons coup détat overthrew the Directory to
  establish his consulate.

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Evolution

• To Darwin, natural selection was central to
  organic evolution.

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Industrial Revolution

• James Watt developed a steam engine that could
  drive machinery.

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The Middle Passage

• Originally, African slaves were brought to the
  Americas to supply labor for the sugarcane
  plantations.

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French Revolution

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the
  Citizen proclaimed equal rights for all men, but
  no political rights for women.

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Exploration

• John Cabot explored the New England coastline of
  the Americas for England.

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Economics

• According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a
  nation depended on a large supply of bullion, or
  gold and silver.

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Industrial Revolution

• The production of cotton cloth was one of the
  first industries to be affected by the Industrial
  Revolution.

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The Third Estate

• The French National Assembly swore the Tennis
  Court Oath, which was a vow to continue to meet
  until they had produced a French constitution.

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Exploration

• The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494,
  established a line of demarcation between
  territories controlled by Portugal and those
  controlled by Spain.

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• Mohandas Gandhi set up a nonviolent movement with
  the aim to force the British to aid the poor and
  grant independence to India.

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French Revolution

• The Committee of Public Safety was given broad
  powers to defend France from threats.

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Ancien Regime

• The Third Estate (commoners) was NOT exempt from
  the taille.

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Slavery

• The Middle Passage was the name for the journey
  of slaves from Africa to America.

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Colonialism

• If a colony was run by direct rule, local elites
  were removed from power and replaced with a new
  set of officials from the mother country.

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French Revolution

• The term sans-culottes, meaning without
  breeches, implied that the members of this
  political group were ordinary patriots without
  fine clothes.