Age of Revolution
The only successful slave revolt leading to the seizure of state power and slavery abolition
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Islamic empire that ruled over parts of Europe and fell during WWI.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Racist spin-off of evolutionary theory, often referred to as pseudo-science.
What is social Darwinism?
First wave set up this kind of economy in the Atlantic world.
What is the plantation economy or the triangular trade?
The class that, according to Marx, rules during the capitalist era.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Name of the empire that ruled the Levant until WWI and also for a time controlled parts of the Maghreb.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
This is the term that the founder of sociology and the NAACP, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, used to describe the global racial order.
What is the color line or global color line?
Name for European powers plundering Africa and competing for African territory in the late nineteenth century.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Marx and Engels referred to the working class -- especially the industrial wage laborer -- by this name.
What is the proletariat?
Power is taken from the monarch and transferred to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
West African Empire from 1701-1901, which fought wars with the British for much of 19th century, and ultimately fell to British colonization.
What is the Asante or Ashanti Empire?
Because it advances a worldview, tied to specific material interests, and acts in a hegemonic mode that often goes unnoticed as common sense, racism can be said to be an instance of this.
What is ideology?
Examples of raw materials that Europe extracted from the Americas in the first wave of European imperialism.
What are gold, silver, indigo, sugar, tobacco, and cotton?
European industrial capitalism was jump-started by these two foundations or factors. These two major historical processes are sometimes referred to as instances of "primitive accumulation" and can be understood as providing the start-up for European capitalist industrialization.
What are slavery and colonialism? (Or more concisely, listed as a single overarching foundation/factor: what is the peculiar periphery?)
Liberalism's two forms of rights.
What are political and economic rights?
Anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, anti-Christian rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Racism arises from, accompanies, and helps drive these two major systems of plunder and extraction. These can be regarded as the material foundations of race and racism.
What are slavery and colonialism?
This led to the replacement of the polycentric world system with this new set of core-periphery relations.
What is the modern world system or global capitalist economy?
The political philosophy arose in part to accommodate the interests of capital and was at the heart of several Atlantic Revolutions of the late 18th - early 19th centuries.
What is liberalism?
Sometimes referred to as "imagined communities," liberalism helped give rise to this new form of political organization which is today everywhere ascendant.
What is the nation-state or nationalism?
The Tsarist Empire fell to this revolutionary communist party that founded the Soviet Union.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
King Leopold II of Belgium owned this African country from 1885 to 1908, where he carried out brutal and extremely violent mining operations.
What is the Congo Free State?
This (proposed) new geological era was spurred by 19th-century European imperialism’s drive toward industrialization. This term refers to human impact on the planet leaving a discernable and substantial trace in the geological record.
What is the Anthropocene?
Capital can appear in a number of forms including these.
What are money, finance, means of production, raw materials, commodities, and labor power?