Ren and Ref
Absolutism and Sci Rev
Enl and FR
Long 19th Cent
Early 20th Cent
Lucky Dip
100
This is what ancient Greek and Roman ideas and culture are referred to as.
What is classical?
100
This French King was known as the Sun King. He built the palace at Versailles and was a quintessential absolutist.
Who was Louis XIV?
100
These Parisian bourgeois women were literary agents of the Enlightenment. They would invited authors to read in front of an audience in their houses and then help them publish their work.
Who were salonnières?
100
This ideology was pioneered by St Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen. Later on it was a cornerstone for Marxist ideology and also for soviet communism and western European fascism. It posits that the basics of every-day life should be provided to citizens by their government and that in some cases, companies should be owned by their workers.
What is socialism?
100
Aside from the machine gun, these are TWO other technologies that were used in the trench warfare of WWI.
What are poison gas, barbed wire, tanks, and aerial bombing.
100
He is considered the "heart" of the Risorgimento. He created the group "Young Italy" and inspired people around Europe to fight for nationalism.
Who was Mazzini?
200
Renaissance thinkers upheld this idea that people are unique in the animal kingdom and thus deserve to be showcased in art and architecture.
What is humanism?
200
This RUSSIAN ABSOLUTIST instituted a merit-based system of promotion in the military, required nobles to live in his capital city (and finance the building of it), and created a centralized bureaucracy where nobles had to be civil servants, rather than just live as feudal lords.
Who was Peter the Great?
200
"God is a clockmaker" is the way to remember this ideology. It says that God created the world, and then stepped back to let it run on its own. Therefore prayer and religion are not necessary. God doesn't have a say in every-day occurrences. God can't help you get an A on your math test. Voltaire subscribed to this ideology.
What is deism?
200
This is the peace treaty signed after Napoleon's defeat. European powers reverted back to the map of Europe that was pre-French Revolution and thus restored the ancien regime. Though they forgot about burgeoning feelings of nationalism, their peace lasted until WWI.
What was the Congress of Vienna?
200
Europeans were excited to go to War in 1914 because they had new technologies that enabled them to triumph in which earlier era?
What is New Imperialism or the Scramble for Africa?
200
His "School of Athens" fresco is a quintessential Renaissance painting as it shows classical philosophers and mathematicians communicating with Renaissance thinkers and figures from the scientific and artistic communities. His body is interred in the Pantheon in Rome.
Who was Raphael?
300
He started a theocratic city-state in Geneva and started his own version of Christianity that served as the basis of Huguenot, Anabaptist and Puritan sects.
Who was John Calvin?
300
He was put on house arrest because of his drawings of the moon, showing them with craters instead of a perfect celestial sphere. The Catholic Church thought he was a heretic. His name was immortalized in a famous song by Queen.
Who was Galileo?
300
In the early days of the French Revolution, members of the Third Estate swore and oath to continue meeting until they drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in THIS ROOM, after they could not enter the Estates General.
What is the Tennis Court?
300
In THIS YEAR, in the 19th century, nationalist revolutions erupted in nearly every country of Europe. Europeans were sick of foreign rule and wanted to have sovereign nations instead of empires. Nearly every revolution in this year failed though, as the Concert of Europe (Congress System) prevailed and put down the revolutionaries.
What is 1848?
300
This treaty ended WWI, introduced ideas from Wilson's 14 Pts, blamed Germany for the war, and is seen as a cause of WWII.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
300
In this 19th century war against Russia, western Europeans used same-day communications and could read about the war in real time. Florence Nightingale also set the best-practice of nurses washing their hands.
What was the Crimean War?
400
The word that means "throwing out the window." This event happened in Prague when local protestants threw the Catholics from the HRE out the window, thus starting the 30 Years War.
What is defenistration (of Prague)?
400
This scientist was born in a Polish (then Prussian) city and was the first to recognize that the solar system was heliocentric (sun-centered), not geo-centric.
Who was Copernicus?
400
In the French Revolution the revolutionaries passed this law, separating the Catholic Church from Christianity in France. They formed a church that was aligned with the new French Republic, and severed a centuries long relationship with the papacy in Rome.
What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
400
This is the idea that a country's citizens have the right to rule themselves, and not be ruled by outsiders. It is a cornerstone of nationalism in the 19th century.
What is self-determination of the peoples?
400
This famous French impressionist artist is famous today for his paintings of landscapes of water lilies. Yet in the late 1800s, the academy denounced him and other impressionists for their modern take on art.
Who was Monet?
400
Signaling a change away from the traditional economy and cottage industry, Agricultural Revolution included a number of innovations that increased food production for Europeans and spurred the Industrial Revolution. These are TWO ASPECTS of the Agricultural Revolution in Europe.
What were fodder crops, crop rotation, animal husbandry, enclosures, and the putting out system?
500
This treaty ended the 30 Years War, the last religious war in Europe's history. It also established the groundwork for the burgeoning nation-states that would be finally realized in the 19th century.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
500
This concept is the rationality of absolutism. The monarch receives the right-to-rule from God because God chose the soul to go into his/her body.
What is Divine Right of Kings?
500
Napoleon signed this agreement with the Pope which realigned the Catholic Church with France, and solidified the Roman Catholic Church the official religion of France once again.
What was the Concordat of 1801?
500
Germany became a nation when Bismarck signed a peace treaty at the end of THIS WAR, in the palace of Versailles.
What was the Franco Prussian war?
500
This is a good, simple definition of existentialism OR the name of at least one existentialist thinker.
What is the idea that humans create meaning in their lives? Thinkers include Nietzsche (proto-existentialist), Sartre, deBeauvoir, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger.
500
Bismarck is known for THIS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY. It espoused that governments should be practical rather than moral or ideological. AKA: get things done for the greater good. Additionally, THIS RENAISSANCE THINKER had a similar idea, "it's better to be feared than loved." Name both.
What is Realpolitik? Who was Machiavelli?