Steam Again, but like, Way More
Socialism and Socialism 2: Even More Socialism
Nationalism (and case studies!)
The Empire Strikes Back
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100

A geographical feature that makes a good place for building industrial cities

COASTLINE, MOVING WATER, or VALLEYS

100

According to Marx, socialism will inevitably reach this form, which is more advanced, and includes such pleasant things as total employment, perfect resource distribution, and the abolition of private property

COMMUNISM

100

The theory of nationalism states that the most important part of one's identity should not be religion, class, or ruler, but rather this.

NATION

100

The primary driver for the second wave (1870s-on) of European imperialism

INDUSTRIALIZATION

100

The state that welcomed the highest number of Irish refugees from the potato famine as well as English colonial abuses

UNITED STATES of AMERICA

200

The invention of this form of transport makes travel from New York to California possible, and reduces mail travel time from months to days in some places.

RAILROAD / TRAINS

200

Marx, Smith, and many other economists use this term to refer to wealth, in all its many, many forms.

CAPITAL

200

This crop famously fails in the 19th century in Ireland, though the British Imperial government continues to export it from the island.

POTATOES

200

A conference in this central European city in the 1880s split Africa apart without the input of any African leaders or indeed African people

BERLIN

200

The process of converting a region's economy from agriculture-based to manufacturing-based

INDUSTRIALIZATION

300

The building of AND migration of people to cities

URBANIZATION

300

Under socialism, workers will own this, rather than capitalists, and therefore receive a fair share of the benefits that it produces.

THE MEANS/FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

300

The military dictator of Japan who ruled in the Emperor's name, but often without his consent or agreement.

SHOGUN

300
Empires are defined by their division into two parts: the core, which receives privileges, resources, and capital; and this other part, which has resources and capital extracted from it without many or any benefits

PERIPHERY / COLONIES

300

The racist theory that peoples can be well- or poorly-suited to their "environment (the entire world)" and therefore "deserve" to succeed or be annihilated

SOCIAL DARWINISM

400

This technology allowed farmers to bury seeds well below the depth that animals could eat them, and at regular intervals.

THE SEED DRILL

400

Marx theorizes that society has always been split into two classes: the bourgeois, those who have capital, and this other group, who do not

PROLETARIAT

400

This Emperor of Japan modernized the country by ending feudalism, nationalizing the army, and enforcing a "Japanese" identity rather than a local one on all members of Japanese society.

MEIJI / MUTSUHITO

400

This "state" was governed personally by Leopold II of Belgium, and was considered his personal property, as he enforced exorbitant rubber quotas and tortured those living under his rule

CONGO FREE STATE

400

Lord Byron, an English nobleman, fought (in the tradition of romanticism) for the freedom of this European nation

GREECE

500

Robert Bakewell famously anticipated Darwin's studies of natural selection by only allowing the strongest members of this farmyard staple to reproduce

SHEEP or MUTTON

500

"Workers of the World, Unite," says Marx. "You have nothing to lose but your" this!

CHAINS

500

This English military dictator, the self-styled "Lord Protector," offered English soldiers who served in the colonization of Ireland landlordship over Irish farmland.

OLIVER CROMWELL

500

After the Opium War, Europe divided China into these, which are zones of exclusive economic interest where each foreign power forms a monopoly.

SPHERE OF INFLUENCE

500

This slogan was popularized by supporters of the Emperor of Japan after the arrival of American warships and the forcible opening of the country; it discredited the shogunate because they couldn't carry it out

SONNO JOI / REVERE THE EMPEROR, EXPELL THE BARBARIAN