The Science Awakens
The Rise of Philosophe
A New Révolution
Revenge of the Commoners
The Slaves Strike Back
Return of the Liberators
Attack of the Nationalists
The Last Category
100
The first astronomer to say that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Who was Copernicus?
100
He believed that all people had "natural rights."
Who was John Locke?
100
France during the Ancien Regime was divided into this many of these.
What are three estates?
100
The leader of the Reign of Terror
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
100
He lead the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?
100
Simón Bolivar wanted to unite former Spanish colonies into this, to encompass most if not all of South America.
What is Gran Columbia?
100
He is credited with uniting Germany.
Who was Otto von Bismark?
100
Two of the leaders of this Unification movement, double points awarded for all three, triple for the fourth individual connected with the movement.
Who are Mazzini, Garibaldi, di Cavour (the big three)? Who was Victor Emmanuel II (the fourth individual)?
200
The Scientific Revolution grew out of this.
What is the Renaissance?
200
Wrote that life was "solitary, brutish, nasty, and short."
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
200
After June of 1789, the new name of the Third Estate.
What was the National Assembly?
200
The favored method of execution during the Reign of Terror, victims included both King Louis XVI and Robespierre.
What was the guillotine?
200
The Haitian Revolution was the largest of these in 2,000 years, the largest since Spartacus.
What is a slave revolt?
200
The social stratification that defined Latin American society under the rule of Spain.
What was the Encomienda System?
200
He was the "Hero of Two Worlds" having fought in independence movements in both South America and Europe.
Who was Giuseppe Garibaldi?
200
This group sought to replace the peninsulares in the Latin American social hierarchy.
Who were the Creoles?
300
He is credited with co-discovering Calculus and discovering the Law of Gravity.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
300
Said "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Who was Voltaire?
300
This lead to the March on Versailles, which in turn resulted in the monarchy relocating and losing political power.
What was to lower bread prices?
300
Lasting largely unchanged into the 20th century, this was the most lasting part of Bonaparte's legacy.
What was the Napoleonic Code?
300
Haiti was the first of these in the Americas.
What is an independent, black-lead country?
300
Born in the Americas, but of full European ancestry.
What is a Creole?
300
This is the running of the state using practical means, not ideals.
What is realpolitik?
300
Championed by Otto von Bismarck, this was the use of subterfuge and military force to accomplish political goals.
What is realpolitik?
400
He said "cogito ergo sum."
Who was René Descartes?
400
Believed that marriage was legal prostitution unless both partners were educated.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
Document that called for equality between all men regardless of social class, but left out women.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
400
Napoleon Bonaparte called himself this, before declaring himself Emperor.
What is First Consul?
400
The name of the French colony that was a major producer of sugar for the French, all the labor being provided by slaves.
What is San Domingue?
400
Miguel Hidalgo gathered this many Mexicans in an unsuccessful, but ultimately inspiring attempt to gain independence for (modern day) Mexico.
What is 90,000?
400
The territory that Prussia won from France in the Franco-Prussian war, important because they fight over it again, and again, and again.
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
400
The political and economic ideals of the French Revolution were represented by this slogan.
What is "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
500
An English lawyer who stressed use of scientific experimentation and observation.
Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
500
He edited the Encyclopédia.
Who was Denis Diderot?
500
A letter from the King of France, used to imprison rivals indiscriminately and without trial.
What was a Lettre de cachet?
500
They determined who was to be imprisoned and/or executed during the Reign of Terror, headed by Robespierre.
Who were the Committee for Public Safety?
500
The year Haiti officially became independent.
What is 1804?
500
This revolutionary leader was captured, then put on trial by the Inquisition before being found guilty of heresy, defrocked, and executed by firing squad. After which his head was put on display for a decade.
Who was Miguel Hidaldo?
500
Italian for “resurgence” this was the movement to unify Italy into one country.
What is Risorgimento?
500
The defeat of Napoleon's troops in 1804 marked the final major event of this.
What is the Haitian Revolution?