Enlightenment
The Enlightenment thinker responsible for separation of powers, checks & balances.
Who is Montesquieu?
The most impactful revolution influenced by the Enlightenment, which successfully established a federal republic.
What is the American Revolution?
The new economic system, devised by Adam Smith, which revolutionized the British economy before spreading across the world.
What is capitalism?
This and this were described as the "double burden" placed on working class women in industrial society.
What is work and family?
The first major industry to industrialize.
What is the textile industry?
The follower of the Enlightenment who, as de facto dictator of France, sent thousands to be guiollotined.
Who is Robespierre?
A revolution against absolute monarchy which, over twenty years, spiraled into a European war that changed politics and government across the continent.
What is the French Revolution?
Egypt saw a textile industry briefly develop thanks to the leadership of this visionary leader before being taken over by the British.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
A term referring to the lower classes working in factories in the industrialized cities of the world.
What is the proletariat?
An industrial era invention which was first to allow for portable machine power, but sometimes could explode if poorly designed or maintained.
What is the steam engine?
The Enlightenment idea that every child is born as a "blank slate" capable of great things.
What is "Tabula Rasa"
The world's first slave-led revolution which established an independent Caribbean nation.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Japan rapidly modernized as part of the widespread societal reform known as this.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
A group targeted with genocide by the Young Turk government seeking to reform the Ottoman Empire.
Who are the Armenians?
As a consequence of poor sanitation, this waterborne illness became common in high population urban areas.
The concept that slavery is wrong and must be eliminated from the world.
What is abolitionism?
The criollo leader of the Latin American revolutions who sought to establish a nation similar to the United States in South America.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
A term referring to keeping the government away from interfering with businesses.
An originally French term referring to the upper classes of industrial society.
What is bourgeosie?
A group of moderate reformers who sought to eliminated some of the problems caused by industrialization without limiting businesses too much.
What is utilitarianism?
Enlightenment thinker responsible for describing the "Leviathan" as a justification for absolutism over chaos.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
A revolt against the Russian Czar which saw serfs, cossacks, and more rise up before being brutally crushed.
What is the Pugachev Rebellion?
A reform initiative in Qing China instigated by Emperor Guangxi before his overthrow by his mother Cici.
What is the Hundred Days Reform?
The housing in which the urban poor lived in places such as New York City or Chicago.
Karl Marx is famed for his argument that, in fact, all of human history is in fact the story of this.
What is "Class Conflict?"