Realism in the Arts
This British author was famous for his realistic novels which vividly described the urban poor and the brutalization of human life during Britain’s industrial age.
Charles Dickens
This British naturalist/biologist argued against the idea of special creation and believed that animals evolved over time and in response to their environment.
Charles Darwin
This city became unified Italy’s capital.
Rome
This was Prussia’s prime minister who helped unify the German states into the new German Empire.
Otto von Bismarck
This man's policies included the rebuilding and beautification of Paris and going to war against Bismarck-led Prussia.
Napoleon III
This is one characteristic of the realism movement.
Careful observation, accurate description, a focus on ordinary subjects, an examination of social questions, and a depiction of real life
This French biologist formulated the germ theory of disease
Louis Pasteur
This country was the dominant power on the Italian peninsula.
Austria
This political strategy based on practical concerns rather than theory or ethics was used by Prussia’s prime minister to help achieve German unification.
Realpolitik
John Stuart Mill argued that this was a despotic institution that forced women to submit to men.
Families
The Russian novelists Turgenev and Dostoevsky wrote about these Russian youths who rejected traditional Russian society.
Nihilists
This British surgeon discovered that bacteria can enter a wound and cause infection so he developed the use of antiseptics to clean wounds.
Joseph Lister
This man was the prime minister who allied with France to fight the Austrians in Italy.
Count Camillo di Cavour
William I took this new title when he was crowned at Versailles.
Kaiser
In addition to the Ottoman Empire, these two countries also declared war on Russia during the Crimean War.
France and Britain
Realism was first used to describe this French painter’s works which included factory workers, peasants, and road workers.
Gustave Courbet
This was the book written by Charles Darwin in which he argued for the animal origins of human beings.
The Descent of Man
This man led the Army of Red Shirts to fight for independence in southern Italy.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Bismarck did this to goad France into war in 1870.
Altered a telegram
He freed the Russian serfs, which gave them some benefits, but nobles limited the amount of good land available to them.
Alexander II
This French author wrote Madame Bovary about a woman who seeks romance but kills herself when her dreams are unfulfilled.
Gustave Flaubert
This German microbiologist discovered the cause of cholera and tuberculosis.
Robert Koch
This northern Italian state/kingdom was instrumental in fighting for Italian unification.
Piedmont-Sardinia
This was the name of the final battle of the Franco-Prussian War in which Napoleon III was captured by Prussian forces.
The Battle of the Sedan
This Tory prime minister helped pass the Reform Act of 1867 which helped enfranchise many male urban workers in England.
Benjamin Disraeli