Short Answer


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1 In the 1620s the Dutch were content to become the vassals of the kingdom of __________.
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2 It was the __________ that most clearly set in motion the political restructuring of Western Europe.
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3 During the radical stage of the revolution, the French King __________ was executed.
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4 The rise of the British __________ in India owed much to the rivalry between the British and the French.
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5 The political objectives of the early phases of the French Revolution were declared in the __________.
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6 The king was decapitated on the __________horizontala new device introduced to provide more humane executions.
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7 Thousands of people were executed during the __________, the radical phase of the revolution.
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8 Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta became the administrative centers of the three __________ that made up the bulk of the territory that Britain ruled in India.
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9 __________ focused primarily on issues of political structure, as they sought ways to limit state interference in individual life.
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10 __________ wanted wider voting rights and, in some cases, outright democracy.
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11 In Britain the __________ gave the parliamentary vote to most members of the middle class.
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12 The essence of the __________ was technological change, particularly the application of engines driven by coal to the production process.
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13 In the 1770s the Scottish artisan __________ devised a steam engine that could be used for production.
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14 The __________ system allowed manufacturers to introduce greater specialization of labor and more explicit rules and discipline.
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15 __________ protests, named after a mythical British machine-breaker, failed to stop industrialization.
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16 The substantial failure of the revolutions of __________ drew the revolutionary era in Europe to a close.
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17 The discovery of germs by the French researcher __________ led to more conscientious sanitary regulations.
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18 A British Conservative leader, __________, took the initiative in 1867 of granting the vote to working-class males.
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19 Count __________ in the Italian state of Piedmont began to support industrial development and extend the powers of parliament to please liberal forces.
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20 In Prussia a new prime minister, __________, began to work with a parliament and extend the vote to all adult males.
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21 Italy developed a system called __________ in which parliamentary deputies were transformed once in Rome to a single-minded pursuit of political office and support of the status quo.
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22 __________ saw socialism as the final phase of an inexorable march of history shaped by the available means of production and who controlled them.
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23 A movement called __________ arose, which argued that Marx's revolutionary vision was wrong, because socialism could be achieved through peaceful means.
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24 The great advance in theoretical science came in the field of biology, with the evolutionary theory of __________.
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25 After 1900 the theory of relativity of __________ formalized the behavior of planetary motion and the movement of electrical particles.
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26 The Viennese physician __________ began to develop his theories of the workings of the human unconscious.
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27 __________ held that emotion and impression, not reason and generalization, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature itself.
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28 American __________ argues that contact with Western Europe was incidental to the larger development of the United States on its own terms.
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29 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed the __________.
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30 Britain, Russia, and France constituted the __________.
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