Unit VI - 19th Century and Industrialization
Balkanization
Dark Satanic Mills |
Invisible Hand
Luddite |
Rotton Borough
White Man's Burden |
Unit V - The Age of Revolution |
Able was I, ere I saw Elba
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Let them Eat Cake
LIberte, Egalite, Fraternite |
Rosetta Stone
Scorched Earth Waterloo |
Unit IV - Absolutism and Enlightenment
A Modest Proposal
Nasty, Brutish, and Short |
Potemkin Village
The Sun King |
Warts and All
Window on the West |
Unit III - Scientific Revolution and Age Of Exploration
And yet it moves
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I think, therefore I am
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Unit IIc&d - The Foundations of Western Society (Renaissance and Reformation
Machiavellian
Quixotic |
Renaissance Man
Utopia |
Unit IIa&b - The Foundations of Western Society (pre-Renaissance)
Achilles Heel
Bread and Circuses Cassandra Cinncinatus Cross the Rubicon Cut the Gordion Knot The Face that Launched 1000 Ships Gordion Knot Hannibal's Elephants Hemlock |
Hippocratic Oath
Ides of March Lingua Franca Marathon Odyssey Pax Romana Penelope Plato's Cave Pyrrhic Victory |
Question Authority
Scylla and Charybdis Sew with Salt Siren Socratic Method Thermopylae Trojan Horse |
Unit IV - The Enlightenment
Lilliputian -
Def: an inhabitant of Lilliput, the fictitious island on which Johnathan Swift's Gulliver first landed
Image: anything exceedingly small and insignificant, particularly if it comes off as self-important
A Modest Proposal -
Def: an essay published by Johnathan Swift that satirically suggested a solution to "the Irish problem"
Image: any extreme and obviously unworkable/unacceptable solution to a persistent problem, particularly if the proposer believed there exists a clear solution that is being disregarded by the powers that be
"Warts and All" -
Def: reputedly an instruction given by Oliver Cromwell to his portrait painter instructing the artist not to attempt to make him look any more attractive
Image: describes a way of depicting something (frequently a problematic situation or institution) that tells the whole truth including the stuff that some might wish to gloss over
Lilliputian -
Def: an inhabitant of Lilliput, the fictitious island on which Johnathan Swift's Gulliver first landed
Image: anything exceedingly small and insignificant, particularly if it comes off as self-important
A Modest Proposal -
Def: an essay published by Johnathan Swift that satirically suggested a solution to "the Irish problem"
Image: any extreme and obviously unworkable/unacceptable solution to a persistent problem, particularly if the proposer believed there exists a clear solution that is being disregarded by the powers that be
"Warts and All" -
Def: reputedly an instruction given by Oliver Cromwell to his portrait painter instructing the artist not to attempt to make him look any more attractive
Image: describes a way of depicting something (frequently a problematic situation or institution) that tells the whole truth including the stuff that some might wish to gloss over