Revolutions
1.) What country was revolted against in the American Revolution?
2.) What year did North America declare independence?
Hint: no hint
1.) Great Britain
2.) 1776
What enlightenment ideal did the thinker John Locke promote?
Hint: no hint
Natural rights of man / Life, liberty, and property
Which Western country was the first to industrialize, and what allowed them to?
Hint: A resource that would be given to someone on the naughty list
Great Britain. They had a lot of coal.
What were the spice islands also called?
Hint: starts with M
Moluccas/Maluku islands
What branches of government were formed by enlightenment thinker Montesquieu?
Hint: no hint
Judicial, legislative, and executive.
What was the name of the South American Creole who was a driving force of the Latin American revolutions?
Hint: A country is named after him
Simon Bolivar
What was the era of philosophical thinking being more common in literature, education, and discussion called?
Hint: The category
The Enlightenment
In what region did maroon societies develop?
Hint: Davey Jones locker
The Caribbean
What were some of the reforms of the Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire?
Hint: no hint
Religious tolerance, equality before the law, secular schools
What economic system influenced banking expansions, export economies, tariffs, and accumulation?
Hint: It starts with the type of people that would be in a diasporic community. Without the H.
Mercantillism
What was the French document that established all men are born free, and have equal rights? It also emphasizes that Sovereignty resides in the nation rather than the monarchy.
Hint: A declaration
The Declaration of Rights of Man
What is the main difference between Marxism and Communism?
Hint: Don't overthink it
Marxism was theoretical, while Communism was an actual implementation of Marxist ideas in the real world.
How did Russia's industrialization different from the industrialization of most other countries?
Hint: A type of leadership that rhymes with a type of car that is opposite to a manual one.
It was state-led due to an autocratic leader and lack of middle-class.
What short revolution established the British Raj in Southern Asia?
Hint: Part of it sounds like another word for someone who is unable to speak.
Sepoy Mutiny
What French hierarchy system sparked Revolts of social inequality, and was a driving cause of the French Revolution?
Hint: Three things that are real
The Three Estates
What series of wars was the result of Great Britain attempting to settle, and enforce it's authority over a certain Oceanic country?
Hint: Polynesians
New Zealand Wars
What was the main purpose of Filipino propaganda in the Spanish colonies?
Hint: B-side of Letters from Jamacia.
To make a peaceful approach of suggesting reforms like assimilation with Spain to have the same rights as Spaniards, rather than trying to gain independence from the Spanish.
What were the main colonies of Britain, France, the Dutch, and Spain?
Hint: Crown jewel, cash crops, spice islands, silk
India, Saint-Domingue (Haiti), Indonesia, Philippines
How did Japan and China's responses to westernization differ from one another?
Hint: no hint
China and it's citizens were reluctant to industrialize, attempting to preserve culture, while Japan strategically industrialized without allowing westernization of their more important cultures, but still embracing it.
What goods were transported through each leg/passage of the triangle trade?
Hint: The first leg is Europe to the African West coast. It's a triangle.
First leg: Goods, gunpowder, textiles, tools
Middle leg: African slaves
Third leg: Spices, sugar, alcohol, raw materials
Where did the Haitian Revolution begin, and what role did the French Revolution play in it?
Hint: Irony
Saint-Domingue. The French Revolution established the Declaration of Rights of Man, which influenced French colonies like Haiti and undermined the colonial authority of the French.
How did empires inspired by the ideas of natural rights and other enlightenment ideals, justify acts of slavery and imperialism?
Hint: Poems and evolution.
The white man's burden, social darwinism, missions from God.
In his "Letters from Jamaica," Simon Bolivar justified the Latin American revolutions by arguing that Spanish colonial rule had forced Creoles to act as mere "____" with no role in government.
Hint: People who eat stuff
Consumers.
How did European imperialism of African states alter the political and economic structures of them short term and long term?
Hint: no hint
Short term: Loss of territory, violent Revolts, economic exploitation.
Long term: Created lasting ethnic borders that sparked conflicts, loss of sovereignty, destruction of cultures, hindered developement.
How did the transition from mercantilism to capitalist economic systems impact the social hierarchy of European nations between 1750 and 1900.
Hint: no hint
The power of the landed aristocracy eroded, and led to the emergence of the industrial middle class, and the proletariats.