Catherine the Great
Catherine first traveled to this Russian capital city
What is St. Petersburg?
The primary crop grown in the southern United States in the late 1700s
What is cotton?
The English made a drug called opium from the juice of this flower
What is a poppy?
When Napoleon needed money, he sold this territory to the United States for fifteen million dollars
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The people of St. Domingue grew this plant and squeezed the juice from its stalks
What is sugarcane?
Shortly after Catherine and Peter's engagement, Peter came down with this disease
What is smallpox?
A steam engine required this fuel to operate
What is coal?
This man taught that the Chinese should accept nature and learn from it in a harmonious way, rather than try to master it
Who is Confucius?
At his coronation ceremony, Napoleon proclaimed this title for himself
What is Emperor?
St. Domingue grew almost half of the world's supply of this drink
What is coffee?
Peter obtained money for the royal treasury by selling land that belonged to this church
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
This man perfected the steam engine
Who is James Watt?
Chi'en-lung only allowed foreign ships to enter this port
What is Canton?
This man was the commander of the British fleet when Napoleon tried to invade Great Britain
Who is Horatio Nelson?
Four thousand soldiers died in four weeks on St. Domingue from this disease
What is yellow fever?
Peter had always loved this army and forced the Russian army to dress, march, and fight like it
What is the Prussian army?
This man invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
This man was England's ambassador to China
Who is George Macartney?
After the French Revolution, French leaders were put into two houses and named a five-man committee called this to rule France
What is the Directory?
St. Domingue was renamed this
What is Haiti?
This woman invited Catherine to come to Russia
Who is Empress Elizabeth?
The concept of interchangeable parts is also called this
What is standardization?
The ambassador was expected to do this, which meant to get down on hands and knees and knock his forehead against the floor to show the emperor's greatness
What is kowtow?
England defeated the French at this battle
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
This man organized the slaves of St. Domingue into an army
Who is Touissaint L'Ouverture?