European Civil War
Moneymakin'
Among the Peasants
Always Blame the British
All the Greats Go to Sea
100
This conflict on the Iberian Peninsula during the 1930s in many ways link together the two great conflicts of on either side into a new interpretation of total war that we could refer to as the European Civil War.
What was the Spanish Civil War?
100
One of the core forces leading to the "New Monarchies" was the competence with which the state was able to garner this kind of revenue.
What was tax?
100
Some historians perversely argue that many peasants and craftsmen benefited economically from this outbreak in the 14th century which decimated the European population.
What was the Black Death?
100
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is effectively an empire of this "home nation."
What was England?
100
Mirroring reforms on land brought about from the successful application of gunpowder ballistics, this historical interpretation also covered the significant strides made in naval architecture.
What was the Military Revolution?
200
The first catastrophic war in modern European History, this great German "civil war" during the 17th century is often compared to the period 1914-1945.
What was the Thirty Years War?
200
Entrepreneurs in the early modern period were able to create a long supply chain where primary production was outsourced to villagers in this system.
What was the "putting out system"?
200
A particularly strident form of peasant oppression, this form of bonded labor would persist in Eastern Europe well into the 19th century.
What was serfdom?
200
This Welsh family dynasty, whose notable monarchs included Henry and Elizabeth, laid the foundation for the new monarchy that emerged in the 16th century.
Who were the Tudors?
200
Elizabeth I's great naval victory over the combined Hapsburg forces in 1588, aided by a storm which would become known as the "Protestant wind."
What was the Spanish Armada?
300
As modern ideologies centered on "conservatism" and "progressivism" were founded as responses to this upheaval in the late 18th century, it served as the prologue to the later titanic, ideological showdown of the 1940s.
What was the French Revolution?
300
The lifeblood of capitalism, these institutions were often aligned with national interests during the 17th and 18th centuries.
What was banking?
300
Tax levied by nobles at the time of death were much despised by peasants and were known in grievances presented leading up to the Peasants Revolt as this.
What was the heriot?
300
The last of these Scottish monarchs, James II, attempted to reCatholicize British institutions and ignited the "Glorious Revolution."
Who were the Stuarts?
300
The series of mercantilist policies passed by the British Parliament that insisted on peripheral colonies only trading with the core, mother country.
What were the Navigation Acts?
400
1917 is pivotal in that it unleashed this confrontational ideology at the state level for the first time.
What was Communism?
400
The revolutionary French National Assembly passed the "Le Chapelier" laws which banned these medieval institutions that organized the "traditional" economies of Western Europe.
What were the guilds?
400
Peasants would be greatly affected by this Parliamentary policy which allowed landowners to petition to have agricultural labor, traditionally seen as the responsibility of the nobles, effectively removed.
What were the enclosure acts?
400
This Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth took his "New Model Army" to Ireland and effectively inaugurated a hatred that has only waned in the past twenty years because of Ireland's dominance over England in rugby.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
400
This new type of battleship design during the turn of the 20th century would lead to a naval arms race that culminated in World War I.
What were the Dreadnoughts?
500
One historian has called Britain's entry into WWI the greatest mistake in modern history as, should they have sat out the war, it would very likely have remained largely a regional conflict between this great empire and its smaller, Balkan opponent.
What was Austria and Serbia?
500
During the era of industrialization, states sought ways to protect nascent modern economies through this kind of tax, considered the bane of "free trade."
What were tariffs?
500
Marx would popularize this fancy term for the urban working class.
What was the proletariat?
500
Coupled with the Dutch, the British Parliamentary system formed the basis of this political model for what would later be called "democratic" governance.
What was constitutional monarchy?
500
Germany's policy during World War I of attacking merchant shipping would directly lead the US entry into the Great War.
What was unrestricted submarine warfare?
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