Review: Age of Reason
Review: French Revolution
REV: Lat Am Independence & German/Italian Unification
Review: Early Industrial Revolution
Review: Later Industrial Revolution
Imperialism in Africa
Imperialism in India
China & Japan in the Age of Imperialism
100
The Age of Reason is also known by this "illuminating" phrase.
What is The Enlightenment?
100
It's the term for the three classes prior to The French Revolution during the "Old Regime".
What are the Three Estates?
100
His conquest of Spain, and then his replacement of the Spanish king with his brother Joseph, led to "The Peninsular War" and many rebellions by Spanish-Americans in Latin America.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
The Industrial Revolution began in this island nation that had a strong navy, great harbors, many small rivers, and access to Atlantic trade routes.
What is Great Britain (aka the United Kingdom today)?
100
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels advocated this type of economic system in which all wealth is shared, or held in "common".
What is communism?
100
It was held in 1884-85, hosted by Otto Von Bismarck, and led to the European competition for the best African lands (The "Scramble for Africa")
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
These Indians were hired as soldiers to keep order and protect British interests in India, at first by a company and later by the British government.
Who are the Sepoys?
100
It was the name of two mid 19th century wars fought between Great Britain and China over trade, particularly the drug trade.
What are the Opium Wars?
200
This English philosopher is known for natural rights theory.
Who is John Locke?
200
It was used so much during the "Reign of Terror" that its nickname became "The National Razor".
What is the guillotine?
200
He is often referred to as "The Liberator" of South America.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
200
The Enclosure Movement (consolidation of small public farms to large private ones) led to this revolution that preceded and helped cause the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
200
Before factories, textiles were made via this system with a division of labor in peoples' homes.
What is the domestic system?
200
The private colony of Leopold II that later was taken over as a colony by the Belgian Government.
What is the Congo?
200
This company was granted a monopoly by the British government and later, by the Mughal Dynasty of India.
What is the British East India Company?
200
During the Tokugawa period of Japanese history, Japan was an isolated nation and the person with this title (not the emperor) had the real power.
What is the shogun?
300
The three natural rights Thomas Jefferson listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
300
He is considered the "architect" of the bloodiest period of the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror".
Who is Robespierre?
300
Because of his policy of using military strength and war (called "MILITARISM")to fulfill his aims, he was called the "Iron Chancellor"
Who is Otto Von Bismarck?
300
The need for less workers on farms as well as the vast stores of this rock, led to massive urbanization - the growth of industrial cities in Great Britain, where the IR began.
What is coal? (And England also was blessed with large iron ore deposits)
These cities were overcrowded and polluted in the 19th century...
300
Industrialization in Europe led to the growth of this class of people, who led better lives than the industrial workers who suffered tremendously in the early IR.
Who are the middle class? (For example: merchants, scientists, teachers, artisans, and engineers).
300
The 19th century ideas of "Social Darwinism" and the ideas in this poem were rationalizations (excuses) for Europeans to conquer places that were not industrialized.
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
Note: This poem demonstrates a point of view about imperialism supported by some Europeans.
300
A major goal of both the Sepoy Mutiny (Rebellion) in India and The Boxer Rebellion in China was to rid those places of what people?
Who are foreigners?
300
{Two-parter}: It's the term for Japan's industrialization / westernization (modernization of the economy and government) AND what the Japanese were trying to avoid.
What is The Meiji Restoration & being imperialized (like China)?
400
One key Enlightenment idea is that if governments do not protect the natural rights of people then the governed have the right to do this.
What is rebel?
400
About 70% of the victims of the Reign of Terror came from this former estate (and only 30% from the other two estates).
What is the third estate?
400
This 19th century ideology (belief) led to the unification of Germany & Italy as well as the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian & Ottoman Empires ... think intense patriotism
What is Nationalism?
400
Jethro Tull's invention that made sowing (planting) much more efficient (machine technology).
What is the seed drill?
400
This economist wrote "The Wealth of Nations", arguing that "laissez-faire capitalism" is the best type of economic system for nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
400
[Two-parter]: These two groups of Europeans went to war over the vast precious resources of southern Africa.
Who are the Boers (Afrikaners) & the British?
400
It is the name of the rifle whose greased cartridges sparked a mutiny or rebellion by Hindu and Muslim soldiers hired by the British.
What is the Enfield?
400
{Two-parter}: It's the areas of China under foreign control AND the rights foreigners had in China at the time in which Chinese laws did not apply to them.
What are Spheres of Influence & extraterritorial rights?
500
The Enlightenment idea of popular sovereignty and the social contract led to the development of these type of governments.
What are republics (or representative / indirect democracies)?
500
It's the name of this radical "Sans-Culottes" leader, killed by Charlotte Corday and painted by Jacques-Louis David.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
500
The first successful Latin American rebellion against European control was in this place (that led to the USA's Louisiana Purchase).
What is Haiti?
500
The invention that allowed factories to be built away from streams and rivers and led to huge transportation advancements.
What is the steam engine?
500
The couple known for the study of radiation, and the man known for pioneering genetics.
Who are Pierre and Marie Curie & Gregor Mendel?
500
It's the machine gun AND the medicine (along with the steamboat) that helped Europeans conquer lands deep in the African interior.
What are the Maxim machine gun and quinine?
500
British tax and trade policies wiped out this industry in India that once had given India a large share of the world gross domestic product (GDP).
What is the textile industry?
500
{Two-parter}: They are the name of the first "unequal treaty" the British made the Chinese sign AND the name of the unequal trade treaty the USA made Japan sign.
What are the Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty of Kanagawa?
