Global History: Regents Review

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Global History Regents Review

• Key Figures Buzz Words

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Absolute Rulers Louis XIV, Akbar the Great,
Elizabeth I, Philip I, Genghis Khan, Qin, King
John I, Suleiman the Magnificent

• Key Ideas
• Divine Right, no freedom
• Sun King, Palace of Versailles - Louis
• Religious Toleration Akbar
• Mongol leader/superior military skills Genghis
• Great Wall Qin
• Ottoman Empire, Constantinople - Suleiman

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Protestant Reformers Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII

• Key Ideas
• Connected to Humanism
• Challenged the church
• Indulgences Luther
• Predestination, theocracy Calvin
• Act of Supremacy, divorce, Anglican Henry VIII

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Scientists Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Keppler

• Key Ideas
• Connection to Humanism
• Heliocentric theory (sun-centered)
• Critics of the church

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Explorers Zheng He, Columbus, Magellan, Vasco de
Gama, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo

• Key Ideas
• Cultural Exchanges East meets West
• Trade Increases
• Curiosity sparked
• Colonization of the Americas

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Renaissance Men Medici, Michelangelo, DaVinci,
Machiavelli, Gutenberg

• Key Ideas
• Humanism/Individualism
• Patron of the Arts - Medici
• Printing Press - Gutenberg
• end justifies means better to be feared than
  loved Machiavelli

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Latin American Revolutionaries Bolivar, San
Martin, Louverture, Hidalgo

• Key Ideas
• Inspired by the Enlightenment John Locke
• Freedom from Spanish rule
• Nationalists get out the foreign powers!

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Italian German Nationalists Mazzini, Cavor,
GaribaldiOtto Von Bismarck

• Key Ideas
• Love of land, culture, traditions
• Blood and Iron Realpolitik - Bismarck

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African Revolutionaries Kenyatta, Mandela,
DeKlerk, Nkrumah

• Key Ideas
• Post WWII/Freedom from European powers Berlin
  Conference
• Ethnic Rivalries
• Apartheid (segregation) political participation
  for all

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Enlightenment Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu

• Key Ideas
• Natural Rights
• Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
• Inspired revolutions (U.S., France, Latin America)

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EconomistsKarl Marx, Adam Smith

• Key Ideas
• Founder of Communism, Communist Manifesto, public
  ownership, equality Marx
• Founder of Capitalism, Wealth of Nations, private
  ownership, profit motive - Smith

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Totalitarian Regimes (Bad Guys) Hitler,
Mussolini, Stalin, Lenin, Mao ZeDong, Deng
Xiaopeng, Khomeini, Robespierre

• Key Ideas
• Genocide human rights abuses (Hitler, Pot)
• Promised prosperity post WWI (Hitler, Lenin,
  Stalin, Mussolini)
• Islamic Fundamentalism (Khomeini)
• Tiananmen Square (Deng)
• French Revolutionary Reign of Terror, guillotine
  (Robespierre)

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Communists Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot, Mao
ZeDong, Deng Xiaopeng, Ho Chi Minh,

• Key Ideas
• Peasant Support (land, equality), public
  ownership ideas of Marx
• Bolshevik Revolution peace, land, bread - Lenin
• New Economic Policy Lenin
• Five Year Plan, Collectivization - Stalin
• Khmer Rouge/genocide (killing fields) Pol Pot
• Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution Mao
• Four Modernizations Deng
• Vietnam - Minh

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Good Guys Ataturk, Gorbachev, Mandela, Meiji,
Gandhi, Truman, King John I

• Key Ideas
• Secular Democratic/Western Ataturk, Meiji
• Glasnost (openess), Perestroika Gorbachev
• Apartheid Mandela
• Civil Disobedience Gandhi
• Containment Truman
• Magna Carta/limited monarchy, England John I