Middle Ages/ Renaissance
Name given to the Middle Ages due to the belief that it lacked intellectual and artistic productivity.
"Dark Ages"
Leader who seized power (and was later elected) following the Reign of Terror
Napoleon Bonaparte
The industrial revolution began in this country
England (Britain)
Europeans established rules for conquering Africa at this meeting.
Berlin Conference.
This scientist is credited with establishing the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Copernicus
Leader of the Reformation (Double points if you list the name if his writing that criticized the sale of indulgences).
Marin Luther (95 Theses)
Most people in France were members of this Estate
Third Estate
This invention during the early industrial revolution revitalized the cotton industry (and slavery)
Cotton gin
The genocide in Rwanda resulted from ethnic conflict between these two peoples.
Hutu and Tutsi
Name for short sayings of wisdom, often handed down in African tribes.
Proverbs
Name for the leg of the Triangle Trade that involved shipping African slaves to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Leader of the Committee for Public Safety who headed the Reign of Terror
Maximilian Robespierre
This economic system flowered during the industrial revolution. (Double points if you also list the economist most associated with the rise of this system).
Capitalism (Adam Smith)
The people of the Congo experienced great brutality while under the imperial control of this Belgian King
King Leopold
The two main sects of Christianity.
Catholicism and Protestantism
The two most famous titles given to Suleiman due to his governance of the Ottoman Empire during its Golden Age and institution of Sharia Law.
The Magnificent and The Lawgiver
The symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
Storming of the Bastille
Urbanization during the industrial revolution brought with it the spread of deadly disease, particularly outbreaks of this bacteria infection (double points if you remember the name of the doctor who cracked the case in London).
Cholera (John Snow)
This form of imperialism involves establishing a "puppet government" of local leaders who are subservient to the outside ruler. Practiced in Ghana.
Indirect Control
Philosophe who said that "power should be a check to power"
Montesquieu
These 4 values shaped the emergence of Renaissance thought.
Classicism, Humanism, Individualism, Secularism
Napoleon was exiled for a second and final time following his defeat in this battle.
Battle of Waterloo
People built BOTH of these after the invention of the steam engine in order to connect cities together and increase transportation
Turnpikes (roads), Canals and Railroads (trains)
Poem by Kipling that captured a justification often given for imperialistic policies.
Term for government based on the consent of the people rather than coming from God.
Popular Sovereignty