Rights and Government
The system of government in which citizens vote to make decisions in government.
What is a democracy?
These were traded for money and manufactured goods in Africa, then sold to work on plantations, in mines, and in homes in the colonies of the New World.
What are slaves?
The Russian monarchy adopted this term for their king deriving from the word "caesar".
What is tsar?
This was a revolution inspired by the Enlightenment that led to the beheading of the king and queen, along with 17,000 other people.
What was the French Revolution?
This event was when different European countries divided up Africa for resources in the late 1800s.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
This type of government has a king or queen at its head.
What is a monarchy?
When a person travels around the whole globe, it is called this.
What is circumnavigation?
This term is used to describe when one family rules over a country, generation after generation.
What is a dynasty?
This revolutionary era brought about the "rebirth" of art, literature, and philosophy inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
What was the Renaissance?
These guys controlled Germany from the 1930s to the 1940s under the command of Adolf Hitler.
Who were the Nazis?
The Enlightenment had many ideas on rights, including this idea that all people are born with the right to life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
This is the term for the system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the New World.
What was the Triangular Trade/Columbian Exchange?
This term refers to a system of government where one person holds all the power (unchecked) in a centralized government based on a belief in divine right.
What is an absolute monarchy?
This revolution was more technological than political, and saw the huge growth of factories and machinery to produce more goods. This event had a massive impact on the environment.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
In WWI, this type of warfare scarred the European countryside, creating moonscapes in the once lush forests.
What is trench warfare?
This term refers to the idea that some rights cannot be taken away.
What are inalienable rights?
Closely tied to trade, this term is used for the practice of extending control over an area using military force.
What is imperialism?
The type of government structure where one country controls one or more other countries under one leader.
What is an empire?
This revolution was inspired by the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This war has 4 M.A.I.N. causes, but the biggest of these was the alliance system in Europe. Because of these alliances, everyone was pulled into a war after Austria declared war on Serbia.
What is WWI?
Under the control of the Nazis, Jews in Germany lost many of their rights due to a prejudice and hostility toward Jews specifically. This is the term for that prejudice.
What is antisemitism?
This country, when faced by western powers coming into their land to force trade, decided to learn from the western powers and adopt their methods to become an unbeatable imperial power by the start of the 20th century.
What is Japan?
This empire, which existed for over 600 years, came to an end after WWI. When it broke up, it became the countries of Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Palestine, Iraq, and parts of Ukraine.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This revolutionary era was marked by rationalism and the call to end absolute monarchies.
What is the Enlightenment?
This was brought (unknowingly) by Europeans as part of the Columbian Exchange to the New World, killing untold millions of Native Americans.
What are diseases?