The Enlightenment
The obligation of a ruler to carry out their subject's will
What is the General Will?
Intense loyalty to others who share one's language and culture.
Massive migration into cities for work
What is urbanization?
A company that contributed to Britain's industrialization by taking materials from India
What is the British East India Company?
Groups formed advocating for workers' rights
What are labor unions?
The belief that a God only set events into motion, but does not interfere
What is Deism?
A revolution resulting in the first free Black-led republic in the world
What is the Haitian Revolution?
A power source that harnesses coal to generate energy
What is the steam engine?
A contributing factor to China's weakened political state before and during the industrial revolution
What is the Opium War?
Social classes outlined in the Communism Manifesto
What are the bourgeoise and proletarait?
Reliance on traditional institutions vs. changing Parliament alongside changing populations
What is classical conservatism vs liberalism?
A period of time where those accused of opposing France's revolution were publicly executed.
A piece of construction encouraged in many nations to facilitate the industrial revolution's growth and success
What are railroads?
A title given to the declining Ottoman Empire whilst others grew with the industrial revolution
What is "the sick man of Europe"?
The belief that the economy will naturally function without the intervention of the government
What is the "invisible hand"?
Popularized theories shared by emerging philosophes
What were social, political, and economic theories?
A document outlining Simón Bolívar's goals and concerns for Latin America
What is the Jamaica Letter?
A process of removing steel's impurities to make it easy to mass produce
A conflict between Russia and Japan over mutual territorial expansion in East Asia
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
An idea outlined in "The Wealth of Nations" to increase productivity
What is division of labor?
The idea that people are born empty and formed solely by experience
What is tabula rasa?
Thomas Jefferson's interpretation of John Locke's "Unalienable Rights"
A new method of global communication and entertainment developed by Gugliemo Marconi
What is the radio?
The era leading into the Meiji Restoration in which the Tokugawa Shogunate ended
What is Bakumatsu?
A main criticism on capitalism's wealth distribution
What is the wealth gap?