Unit 3 Vocab Review

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Industrial Revolution

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Period beginning in the 1700s in which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machinery and sources of energy  shifted from human or animal power to steam and electricity.

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Urbanization

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Movement of people from rural areas to cities.

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Imperialism

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Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.

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Germany

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A country formed out of the growth of the Prussian Empire that competed with Great Britain economically during industrialization.

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Adam Smith

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Scottish economist that wrote The Wealth of Nations and argued for free markets with minimal government interference makes productive economies.

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Communism

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Form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx who believed class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society where wealth and property would be owed by the community as a whole.

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Nation state

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a country where the political boundaries of a state closely align with the cultural boundaries of a single dominant nation

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Otto Von Bismarck

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a German leader who united Germany in 1871 using smart politics and wars, making it a powerful country.

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Meiji Restoration

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In Japan, the reign of emperor Meifi from 1868 to 1912 that was marked by rapid industrialization. 

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Opium War

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War between Great Britain and China over restrictions to foreign trade.