Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau were associated with this movement that aimed at ending absolute monarchy
What is the Enlightenment?
100
The three Estate system, unfair taxation, and displeasure with King Louis XVI are all associated with this revolution.
What is the French Revolution?
100
As a result of bountiful natural resources such as coal, iron, and fast flowing rivers, the Industrial Revolution began in this nation.
What is England?
100
During the late 18th and early 19th century, the nations of Western Europe implemented a policy of imperialism in Africa and Asia as a means of securing these two things necessary to maintain their industrial output.
What are natural resources and new markets?
100
The existence of these defensive agreements prior to WWI escalated tensions resulting in WWI.
What are alliances?
200
This policy supported the belief that kings received the power to rule from God, therefore making their power absolute.
What is the divine right of kings?
200
These two geographic features of Russia led to the defeat of Napoleon's army during the Napoleonic Wars.
What is Russia's size and climate?
200
The Agricultural Revolution increased the population in Europe, which in turn increased this, resulting in change from products being made by hand to products being produced by machines in factories.
What is demand for goods?
200
This view, inspired by the Rudyard Kipling poem, was held by many European imperialists of the time. It stated that it was the responsibility of Western European nations to "civilize" the "savages" in Africa and Asia.
What is the White Man's Burden?
200
This event in European history is described as the spark that ignited WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Frnz Ferdinand?
300
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Kings sought to centralize power within their nations. During this era, kings who ruled with complete and total power were known as these.
What is an absolute monarch?
300
Maximillien Robespierre, the radicals of the Jacobin club, and the guillotine are all associated with this stage of the French Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
300
The Spinning Jenny, the Power Loom, and the Cotton Gin were all technological developments created during the Industrial Revolution in attempt to increase production in this industry.
What is the textile industry?
300
These two events in India and China exhibit attempts to remove foreign influence in each nation.
What is the Sepoy Revolt and Boxer Rebellion?
300
This Soviet leader rallied peasants, soldiers, and workers to his cause by promising them "peace, land, and bread." His goal was to eliminate traces of czarist rule in Russia. His New Economic Policy allowed private ownership of small scale farms and industries.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
400
These two documents in British history attempted to limit the power of the monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights?
400
This fierce German leader is known for his policies of Realpolitik and "Blood and Iron" that helped to unify the German states into a nation.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
400
This person wrote the Communist Manifesto as a reaction to problems he observed during the Industrial Revolution. In his book he argued, "History is the story of a class struggle. Eventually, the working class will rise up and revolt against the wealthy."
Who is Karl Marx?
400
This event in Chinese history demonstrated that China could no longer resist Western inlfuence.
What is the Opium War?
400
Joseph Stalin was known for these two policies that aimed at increasing both industrial and agricultural output in the Soviet Union.
What are the Five Year Plans and Collectivization?
500
Enlightenment thinkers used these tools of the human mind to examine the role of government and question the power of absolute monarchs. This led to the Enlightenment to be nicknamed the Age of this particular tool.
What is logic and reason?
500
This self-educated former slave, inspired by the teachings of the French and American Revolutions, led a revolt against the white French settlers on the island of Saint-Domingue, also known as present day Haiti.
What is Toussaint L' Ouverture?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: Adam Smith wrote this book, in which described his theory of laissez-faire economics, including the belief that government should not interfere with private business and that the principles of supply and demand should regulate prices.
What is the Wealth of Nations?
500
Following the visit of Commodore Matthew Perry, this movement aimed to modernize, Westernize, and industrialize the Japanese economy in order to compete with Western nations.
What is Meiji Restoratrion?
500
Daily Double: These two terms refer to a system of government in which there is a one-party dictatorship that uses censorship and secret police to quiet political dissenters.