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This is when all the technology and machines and inventions started to build and grow. Peopl estarted inventing things, there was factories. Countries started to modernize.
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Excessive spending and poor harvest lead to a financial crisis in France
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1780s - widespread crop failures - price of bread doubles
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3rd estate vote to call themselves the National assembly and
vote for representative government
locked out they meet in indoor tennis court where they
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July 14th pardinas storm the Bastille to seize weapons to
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august 1789- fearful nobles end feudal privilege
national; assembly adopts declaration (similar to our
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october - 6000 women riot over $ of bread
march to versailles
to seize king and his entourage (60000) - return to Paris
women were rioting over the high prices of bread.
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As a sign of the republic’s newfound resolve and contempt for the monarchy, the next proposal before the National Convention was the execution of Louis XVI. Once again, the moderates objected and eventually forced a trial, but the effort was in vain. Louis XVI was ultimately found guilty of treason and, on January 21, 1793, executed at the guillotine. Months later, on October 16, 1793, his wife, Marie-Antoinette, met the same fate.
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Napoleon orders to behead Roberspierre. After he and his followers are dead the Reign of Terro is over.
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robespierre (head of committe of Public safty) beheads
40000 peole - 85% peasants, urban poor and middle class
Robespierre, under the auspices of the Committee of Public Safety, began pointing an accusing finger at anyone whose beliefs seemed to be counterrevolutionary—citizens who had committed no crime but merely had social or political agendas that varied too much from Robespierre’s. -
Backlash against westernization in early 1800's in Russia
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Nicholas I represses opposition and that causes RUssia to escape the mid 1800 revolutions.
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1803- napoleon covers his losses in french west indies by selling louisiana to US for 15,000,000$
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Women usually worked in the textile factories....they also usedchildren..why beacyse they had small hands that were used to reach behind or under the machines. They often got hurt or died.
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in the 1850's there was problems with the technology and agriculture and te population in Japan.
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Matthew Perry forces Japan to open because we had navel superiority
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the crimean wars start, it was between Russia and the Ottomans
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the war between Russia and the Ottomans. The Ottomans won because they had help from the British and the French. Russia also lot cause they werent as industrialized
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The serfs emancipated in 1861, they had to pay for the land
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the samurai were alwasys the protectors of the emperor. Whne Japna began to imperilize then thy stopped needing them. They usually foaugh wiht swords and they were no match for guns. They revolted and then defeated with the new technology Japan got.
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in Japanese history, the political revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under the emperor Meiji, beginning an era of major political, economic, and social change known as the Meiji period (1868–1912).
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Trans Siberian Railway linking Moscow and Vladivostok. It was started in 1891 and completed in 1905 and ran for 5,785 miles
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the first war between the Japnese and Russians. Japan won
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Japan won again
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Agriculture society, They were dependent on serf labor until the 1940's. Serf labor is similar to the feudal system.
