Vocab
The war that occurred between Britain and China when Britain refused to stop trading Opium.
What is the Opium War?
an increase in machine-made goods that began in England during the 1700s
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Blood and Iron
Who is Otto Von Bismarck?
Seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country.
What is Imperialism?
One result of the Industrial Revolution was this rapid movement of people to the cities
What is urbanization?
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
What is nationalism?
1789. 3 Estates. Headless King and Queen.
What is the French Revolution?
Nationalism is the only way to unify Italy so that we can be respected by other countries.
Who is Count Cavour?
An area in which the foreign nation controlled trade and investment.
What is a Sphere of Influence?
Theory that the government should have minimal involvement in economic matters.
What is laissez-faire?
When Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and natural selection were applied to human society. It also became a major justification for imperialist countries.
What is Social Darwinism?
These philosophers inspired the creation of Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
Who are Rousseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu?
Enlightened Despot
Who is Catherine the Great?
This country was referred to as the "jewel in the crown" because it was was the most valuable of all of Britain's colonies.
What is India?
Enlightenment thinkers promoted government by consent of the governed and criticized this philosophy which claimed that rulers were given their authority by God.
What is absolutism?
The "White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling inspired these two terms exemplified in India, China, and the continent of Africa.
What is colonialism and imperialism?
This political and military leader was inspired by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Who is Simòn Bolivar?
This marked the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the transition to Meiji Japan thanks to this man.
Who is Commodore Perry?
A meeting in 1884 in which the leaders of Europe divided Africa amongst European Countries.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This large multi-ethnic empire became known as "the sick man of Europe" in the aftermath of several successful nationalist revolts for independence threatened to break it up.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith is made up of these three principles that created the economic system of capitalism.
What is productivity, division of labor, and the invisible hand?
Industrialization in Great Britain partly occured because of this other revolution that took place.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This dictator became France's first emperor and ended the French Revolution of 1789.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The theory that when a place is rich in resources, but does not have the tools to handle them, having a lot of resources can be more harmful than good.
What is the Resource Curse?
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx argued that this class would rise up against the capitalist system and seize control of the means of production.
What is the proletariat (or working class)?