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What is the Hebrew code that focuses more on morality and ethics and less on politics?
The Ten Commandments
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Probably the greatest legacy of Rome was the establishment of what through the law?
Justice
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A concept from classical Athens that is central to Western political thought today is that individual achievement, what, and worth are of great importance?
Dignity
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Who believed that in an ideal society the government should be controlled by a class of "philosopher kings"?
Plato
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The ancient Roman Republic and the United States share the idea of establishing what kind of government?
Representative
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Under what, persons accused of a crime had the right to face the accuser and offer a defense?
Roman law
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Jesus of Nazareth teachings were rooted in what traditions?
Jewish
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The idea that alll people, including leaders and kings, are under the law, because God gave the the law. Jews believe in the what?
Rule of the Law
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The what tradition, in regards to political thought, is most concerned with laws and the overall structure of government?
Grecko-Roman
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In terms of political thought, the what tradition is most concerned with ethical living by the individual?
Judeo-Christian
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James 1 of England believed in the what, which is the belief that a king was granted wisdom of God upon ascending to the throne, and therefore faultless.
Divine Right of Kings
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In England history, the Magna Carta(1215), the Petition of Right(1628), the Bill of Rights(1689) all reinforced the concept of a what?
Limited monarchy
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The foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England was laid by the what?
Glorious Revolution
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Plato and John Locke's writing heavily emphasizes the nature and what of government?
Purpose
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What's biggest contribution to the development of Democracy is the beginning of moral laws?
Religion's
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The idea that no one can be put in jail without first being charged witha specific crime is called what?
Habeas Corpus
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What is a government system where citizens elect leaders who make government decisions.
A republic
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Who is the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jerfferson
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What states taht all government power comes from the people?
Popular Sovereignity
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What should be given to people because they are naturally good?
Natural rights
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Who is the first government to use Enlightenment ideals as its foundation?
The United States of America
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Who is the author of The United States' Constitution?
James Madison
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Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged form the what?
Scientific Revolution
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Who argued that life, liberty, and property are natural rights that should be protected by government?
John Locke
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When a country's constitution requires branches of government to remain independent of each other, it is adhering to the constitutional principle of what?
Separation of powers.
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The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from the Enlightenment thinker who?
Montesquieu
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Who believed in the "general will" of the people? This was due to his belief that people were basically good.
Rousseau
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What is a system of government in which a ruler holds total power?
Absolutism
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Who was inspired by the ideas of the American Revolution and the Enlightenment to lead the liberation of much of South America from Spain?
Simon Bolivar
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What is the first democratic document to limit governmental power?
The Magna Carta
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The English Bill of Rights in 1689 established what?
A limited monarachy
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizens models the American what?
Declaration of Independence
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What protects the basic rights of citizens of the United States?
The Bill of Rights
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The American victory over who, not only gave the colonies freedom, it also showed the world that they could overthrow oppressive government and institute Enlightenment ideas?
Britain
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Both the American and Frech Revolution favored what kind of governments?
Representation
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Members of the Third Estate took the what in (1789) at the start of the Revolution to draft a new constitution?
Tennis Court Oath
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The fall of what was the first popluar protest that would play a role in the French Revolution?
Bastille
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Throughout the French Revolution, Kings from surrounding kingdoms, like Austria and Prussia intervene or threaten to tinterven to protect the French what?
Monarchy
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Who believed that the best way to protect the new government in France was to suppress oppostition to the government by using force?
Robespierre
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Under what, men regained complete control of their wives?
Napoleanice Code
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Who took advantage of a weak French gonvernment to seize control?
Napolean
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Creating a lasting peace by restoring a balance of power, and protecting the monarchies of Europe were all goals of the what?
Congree of Vienna
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Results of the actions taken at Vienna created what of peace that would end with the rise of nationalism?
100 Years
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By ensuring a what between nations the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe suppressed nationalism between 1815-1848?
Balance of Power
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Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whiteny
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What is a new way to make things which involved one person performing a task, placing the product on a converyor belt so that another person could perform the next task ultimatley increasing the production of goods?
Assembly line
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What economics argues that the natural laws of supply and demand should be allowed to operate without government interference?
Laissez faire
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Who used his literacy skills to bring social ills to light with books like Oliver Twist and Hard Times.
Charles Dickens
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What allowed for replacement parts to be nterchanged for broken parts in machines and other devices?
Interchangable parts
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Who was the first to industrialize because of a variety of natural resources, stable government, and many waterways and ports for shipping goods and transporting natural resources?
Great Britain
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The research of who into germ theory is important because it proved that cleanliness helped prevent infections?
Louis Pasteur
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The what changes in England during the 1600s contributed to England's later industrial development by producing more food with fewer workers?
Argricultural
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In the 19th century, what developed mostly in response to wages and working conditions?
Labor unions
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To increase production output during the what business owners primarily invested in machinery?
Industrial Revolution
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Socialists that live in a society where all people work and share their good and produce their best while viewing themselves as equals are known as what?
Utopians
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What is a political ideology in which there is a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism?
Social Democracy
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Karl Marx developed an ideology that said workers in a country would eventually revolt against the government and take over the means of production. This ideology is known as what?
Communism
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Socialists believe the what ought to be controlled by the people as a whole.
Means of Production
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What was a European artistic movement that arose as a reaction against Classicism's emphasis on reason?
Romanticism
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Charles Dickens' novels were a response to conditions brought about by what?
Industrialization
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In the mid-1700's, trade contributed to the early growth of an industiral economy in Great Britain by giving British what the captial needed to open new factories?
Entrepreneurs
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What provided Great Britain a strategic shipping route to its colonies?
The Suez Canal
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At the end of the 1800's colonies were generally seen as a country's relative what?
Power
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In the 1500's what lands extendedfrom Western Africa to Southeast Asia?
Muslim
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Industrialization allowed who to expand resources on military and coonial expansion?
Japan
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Greck-Roman tradition differs from Jewish and what beliefs in matters of concerning the importance of belief in one God?
Christian
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By 1914, Ethiopia and Liberia were the only two what countires to retain Independence?
African
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The collapse of the last Chinese Empire in 1912 was caused by the imperial government's failure to control what influence?
Foreign
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In 1900, anti-foreign sentiment in China led to an uprising known as the what?
Box Rebellion
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Who used his philosophy of nonviolent noncooperation in an effort to achieve India's independence from Britain?
Mohandas Gandhi
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What allowed Japan to expend pesources on military and colonial expansion?
Industrialization
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Hte letter that who carried to japan demanded Japan to open its ports for trade?
Matthew Perry
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What stated that no European countries could colonize in the Americas anymore?
The Monroe Doctrine
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The Western countries had a trade deficit with who?
China
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"The sun never sets on the British Empire" indicates how what the British Empire was?
Large
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The Sepoy Rebellion in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China were responses to European what?
Imperialism
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THe theroy of what was sometimes used to justify European Imperialism in the late 19th century?
Social Darwinism
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The government of Great Britain built railroads, schools, and irrigation system in colonial India primarily to strengthen Great Britain's political and economic contro in where?
India
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Europeans used what to govern their colonies in which they provided colonial people basic needs but did not give them full rights?
paternalism
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The entire international community to this day does not recognize the that Armenian what ever happened?
Genocide
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