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THINGS I KNOW
RECALLING INFORMATION
I hope I know
What I've Learned
Common Knowledge
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Capital
What is a ready supply of money.
100
Entrepreneurs
What is one who finds new business opportunites and new ways to make profit.
100
Socialism
What is a system in which society and not individuals own the mans of production
100
Plebiscite
What is louis-Napoleon became president when 97 percent of the ___________ responded with a yes vote.
100
Romanticism.
What emphasized feeling, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing.
200
Organic Evolution
What is the idea that each kind of plant and animal had evolved over a long period of time from ealrier to simpler forms of life.
200
Charles Dickens
Who became very successful with his realist novels focusing on the lower and middle classes in Britain's early Inudstrial Age?
200
Leisure Activity
What someone does on their free time. Examples include sports, movies, cards, and tv.
200
Charles Darwin
Who published "on the origin of species by means of natural selection"
200
Emancipation
What is the act of setting free
300
Dictatorship
What is a form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power
300
Marie Curie
Who was the 1st women to win a Nobel Piece Prize and discovered the element radium and that it gave off energy, or radiation.
300
proletariat
What is another word for "the working class"
300
Feminism
What is the movement of womens rights
300
Pablo Picasso
What artist created the style called cubism, that used geometric designs to recreate reality.
400
Nationalism.
What is the unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, relgion, and national symbols.
400
Universal Education
What is the movement of the late 19th century that made both boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 12 required to attend school.
400
Albert Einstein
Who published the "special theory of relativity", which stated that space and time are not absolute but are relative to the observer. He was also German born scientist who moved to the U.S.
400
Sigmund Freud
Who devised a method known as psychoanalysis (which a therapist and patient could probe deeply into patients memory)
400
Militarism
What is the reliance on military strength
500
Scientific Revolution
What is the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.
500
Marx's Theory
What theory believed "that all of world history was a history of class struggle". Created by two German men who also wrote the Communist Manifesto
500
Industrialization
What is the process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.
500
The Second Industrial Revolution
What is usually dated between 1870 and 1914, although a number of its char- acteristic events can be dated to the 1850s. It is, however, clear that the rapid rate of pathbreaking inventions (macroinventions) slowed down after 1825, and picked up steam again in the last third of the century.
500
Congress of Vienna
What is the assembly that met in September 1814 to arrange a final peace settlement. Helped reorganize Europe.