French Revolution
What was the name for the social and political divisions in pre-Revolution France?
Estates
This invention, which was capable of creating massive amounts of power on its own, drove many of the major technological changes of the Industrial Revolution...
The Steam Engine
What piece of infrastructure motivated the British to colonize Egypt?
The Suez Canal
Who led the Russian Revolutionary efforts to overthrow the Czar (Emperor)?
Vladimir Lenin
What percentage of the indigenous Congolese population perished under Belgian colonial rule?
50%
This individual's unwavering commitment to revolution led him to usher in the mass beheadings of the Reign of Terror...
Maximilien Robespierre
The Transportation Revolution involved the introduction and expansion of what type of vehicle across Britain...?
Trains
What disease destroyed the Irish Potato Crop?
The Potato Blight
This political theory hoped to bring about a classless society where the means of production were owned by the community...
Communism
The drug Opium is made from which plant?
The Poppy Flower
The storming/takeover of this building (a political prison meant to hold opponents of the Monarchy) is often cited as the beginning of the French Revolution's actual fighting... What is this building's name?
The Bastille
The invention of new industrial technologies led to the rise of these in urban city centers...
Factories
What two natural resources drove King Leopold to colonize the Congo?
Rubber and ivory
The Bolsheviks
What is the name of the Monarch whom the people directly revolted against in the French Revolution?
King Louis XVI
Under the pre-Revolutionary system of Absolute Monarchy, the King was allowed to do...
The term Urbanization refers to what?
The mass movement of people from rural areas to urban cities
These British laws restricted Irish people's access to foreign grain
The British Corn Laws
This self-proclaimed "magician" became an advisor for the Royal Family, leading to many questions about their fitness to rule...
Grigori Rasputin
The physical transformation of the Peppered Moths is indicative of the massive environmental consequence of the Industrial Revolution
More pollution
This intellectual movement's ideas (such as freedom, equality, and the innate power of humans) functioned as the justification/cause for the French Revolutionaries' efforts...
The Enlightenment
This Old World thinker found his predictions about population and outpacing resource growth disproven by the Industrial Revolution...
Thomas Malthus
The Opium Wars were largely a result of British- Chinese trade deficit involving these two goods...
Tea and Silver
In order to end the presence of imperial rulers (i.e., Czars) in the nation, the Soviets executed this imperial family in 1918
The assassination of this Austrian Archduke led to the outbreak of WWI...
Franz Ferdinand