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These are concepts you will need to know and use throughout our study of social studies.
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August 30, 2024
Renaissance or "rebirth" was a period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages. With the difficult times of the Middle Ages behind them, people began to rediscover classical philosophy, literature and art.
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September 18, 2024
The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent and the western world in the modern era.
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October 3rd, 2024
In the 15th century, Europeans began to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of new routes to China and the East, but in the process, they discovered an entirely New World: North and South America, plus many other lands.
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October 16th, 2024
In the mid-1500s, scientists began to question accepted beliefs and made new theories based on experimentation. This launched a change in European thought known as the Scientific Revolution.
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November 4th, 2024
An intellectual movement, in which famous thinkers and philosophers challenged some of the basic foundations of society, including the role of the government, basic human nature, sources of authority, and ideas centered on liberty.
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November 18th, 2024
The French Revolution had almost everything we associate with revolutions – ravenous royals, ambitious aristocrats, high taxes, failing harvests, food shortages, hungry peasants, angry townspeople, lies, corruption, mob violence, radicals, and weirdos, rumors and conspiracies, state-sanctioned terror, and head-chopping machines.
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December 2nd, 2024
The Industrial Revolution marked a period of development in the latter half of the 18th century that transformed largely rural, agrarian societies in Europe and America into industrialized, urban ones. Goods that had once been painstakingly crafted by hand started to be produced in mass quantities by machines in factories, thanks to the introduction of new machines and techniques in textiles, iron making, and other industries.
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January 6th, 2025
Imperialism is a policy in which one country seeks to extend its authority by conquering other countries or by establishing economic and political dominance over other countries.
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January 24, 2025
Also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.
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February 17th, 2025
The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination.
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March 18, 2025
The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for decades and resulted in anti-communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear disaster.
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A Whole New World
April 7th, 2025
People and events that shaped the world from the 1990s to the year 2025.