WORLD IN 1750
This Muslim empire ruled much of India in 1750 and is known for building the Taj Mahal.
What is the Mughal Empire?
According to John Locke, every person is born with these three natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This social group made up the majority of the French population, and carried most of the tax burden in France while having the fewest privileges before the revolution.
What was the Third Estate?
Nationalism is best defined as ______.
extreme loyalty, love and/or pride for one's country.
Atatürk’s goal of transforming Turkey into a modern, secular (non-religious) nation is known as this process.
What is Westernization or modernization?
This empire controlled territory in Southeast Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia and was centered in Constantinople (Istanbul).
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Which Enlightenment thinker most influenced the idea that people have the right to overthrow an unjust government?
Who was John Locke?
This prison was stormed looking for weapons on July 14, 1789 and is considered a turning point because it is often considered the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
What was the Bastille?
This leader helped unify Germany, under the slogan "Blood & Iron"
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
This Middle Eastern resource transformed the region's economy.
What is oil?
Under this system, the emperor held symbolic power while the shogun exercised real political authority.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
This philosopher promoted separation of powers.(Executive, Legislative, Judicial)
Who was Montesquieu?
This document declared that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights" during the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
This military leader helped unify Italy, and was known as the "Sword".
Who was Giuseppe Garibaldi?
This policy under Mao attempted to rapidly industrialize China but led to famine and millions of deaths.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This ruling family controlled France before the French Revolution and included King Louis XVI.
What is the Bourbon Dynasty?
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu all challenged the authority of this traditional political system.
What is absolute monarchy?
Name two causes of the French Revolution.
Unfair taxation, social inequality, debt, Enlightenment ideas, weak leadership.
Explain how nationalism can have both negative and positive effects.
It can create national unity(unification) but also cause conflict (fighting) among groups.
This economic system allowed private business and foreign investment in China starting in the late 1970s under Deng Xiaoping's leadership.
What is free market reforms or economic liberalization?(Opening up the economy)
Explain one way the Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, and Tokugawa Shogunate maintained power over their populations.
Strong centralized government, military control, social hierarchy, religious authority, or limiting opposition.
Explain how Enlightenment ideas influenced revolutions.
They encouraged people to questions and challenge unfair governments and demand rights.
Explain how the French Revolution spread nationalism.
Citizens began identifying with their nation rather than a monarch.
Both Simón Bolívar and Toussaint L'Ouverture challenged European control in the Americas. Explain a similarity in their goals.
Both sought independence from European colonial rule and greater self-government for their people.
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini established a new system of government. Explain what this system is and describe how it is different from a secular government.
A theocracy (Islamic Republic), where religious leaders and Islamic law guide the government, rather than separating religion from state power.