Old Stuff
Governments
England
France
Russia
100
Spain, Portugal, France, England, Netherlands
What are the countries who explored and settled in the New World.
100
Type of limited government where there is a King/Queen but their power is limited by laws and the people elect representatives.
What is constitutional monarchy?
100
The document that King John signed in 1215 that gave basic rights to the English people.
What is the Magna Carta
100
Who France look to as an example for what they could do with their government?
Who is England?
100
Term used to describe rulers of authority throughout Russian history.
What is Czar?
200
Why was Spain able to gain more land in the Americas?
Spain had guns and horses.
200
Absolute monarchy, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, dictatorship are all examples of this...
What is Unlimited Government.
200
The bloodless invasion by William of Orange and Mary to take control of England. It began a constitutional monarchy in England.
What is the Glorious Revolution
200
A poor farm worker, who was also a member of the third estate in France.
What is Peasant
200
Kind of government that enforces strong measures/power against the people it represents. Power is held by 1 person or a small group.
What is Authoritarianism?
300
Europeans carried foods and animals to various regions around the world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
The idea that rulers receive their power directly from God and are responsible only to God, not the people.
What is the Divine Right of Kings
300
What did the English Bill of Rights do?
Limited royal power and ended absolutism in England.
300
A large prison in Paris that was attacked because it was detaining many peasants without good reason.
What is Bastille?
300
The czar who tried to make Russia more modern, but controlled every aspect of the citizens' lives.
Who is Peter the Great?
400
_______________ was a slave who became a writer after he bought his freedom.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
400
What are two characteristics of limited government?
-Restraints are placed on power. -Citizens have individual right. -Citizens participate in decisions. -Citizens have rights and freedoms.
400
_____________ became "Lord Protector" of England after the English Civil War.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
400
____________took control of France after King Louis and Marie Antoinette were put to death?
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
Took over the Russian throne after killing her husband. She expanded the Russian empire and was the last of Europe's major absolute monarchs.
Who is Catherine the Great?
500
The economic system where most of the production was privately owned.
What is capitalism?
500
A style of government that means the rulers had absolute, or total, control and power.
What is absolutism.
500
When King Charles I physically locked Parliament out of their meeting place for 11 years.
What is the 11 Years Tyranny?
500
What is the name of the French ruler who would believe, "I am the state?"
What is King Louis XIV
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