Revoutionary France
The King of France called this group in order to try to rescue the country from its debts.
What are the Estates General/3 Estates?
The Crusades led to the growth of this practice in Europe, which involves holding and lending money with interest.
What is banking?
Who is the Pope?
The Industrial Revolution started in this country
What is Britain?
In modelling capitalism, this term refers generally to all the people who produce goods in order to sell them.
Important to the Enlightenment beliefs of the Revolutionaries was this belief that church and state must be kept separate
What is secularism?
What is absolutism
This type of thinking dominated pre-Enlightenment Europe. It involves starting with logical absolutes and working downward toward a specific conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
A term for an extremely unsafe and crowded work place, these were common in the early industrial revolution and led to injuries and crippling ailments for workers.
The first factories in the Industrial Revolution were dedicated to producing this product.
What is cloth/textiles?
This term refers to the period in which the Committee for Public Safety ran France, executing the King and tens of thousands of people that it considered counter-revolutionary.
The Renaissance began here, the country home to Michelangelo, Botticelli and Leonarda da Vinci
What is Italy?
A system in which a king gives land and power to his noble vassals in exchange for taxes and loyalty. It lasted in Medieval Europe for seven hundred years.
What is Feudalism?
Both the industrial and transportation revolutions caused a demand for this carbon ore, which burns at a high temperature and to run steam engines.
What is coal?
According to Adam Smith, if markets are left to their own devices, prices will naturally reach this point, where consumer demand is satisfied, and all products are sold at a reasonable price.
What is equilibrium/natural equilibrium?
The Napoleonic Code abolished these poverty-ridden walled neighborhoods where minorities like Jews were forced to live in Italy.
What are ghettos.
These organizations, originally created by the Church to help train priests became hotbeds of humanist and renaissance thought across Germany, thanks to their education in liberal arts and philosophy
What are universities?
The Pope used the threat of this, being cast out of the Church and from society as its ultimate punishment.
What is excommunication?
Despite technological advancements, Europeans could only permanently settle in areas where their crops and livestock could prosper, a theory known as this.
What is Neo-Europe Theory?
Without this, the ability to freely negotiate for wages, set prices and choose between markets, capitalism cannot work.
What is competition?
This is considered the official start of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Thomas Hobbes could be considered this, a form of right-wing politics that is willing to use violence, if necessary, to preserve power.
What is a reactionary?
Who are the Mongols?
Just prior to the Industrial Revolution, was this- the widespread adoption of shepherding and the replacing of old fields with sheep pastures by the nobility.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
Capitalism changes the way goods are produced, from that based on the needs of consumers, to this- a good produced specifically for sale by stores.
What is a commodity?