Ideology
This is used to describe a set of ideas spawned from the French Revolution that aimed to alter the old institutions of Europe.
What is liberalism?
These people engaged in revolt against the Ottoman Empire and got assistance from other European powers to gain independence.
Who are the Greeks?
This kingdom served as the "glue" or the "magnet" around which unification of the Italian states would occur.
What was Piedmont-Sardinia?
This nation had the largest colonial empire, covering 20 percent of the earth's surface.
What is Great Britain?
This phrase characterizes the intense pace with which the Europeans sought to colonize Africa.
What is the scramble for Africa?
What is conservatism?
In eastern Europe, this nation revolted against the Russian Tsarist government to gain greater autonomy.
Who were the Polish?
Name the three foreign conflicts that Bismarck initiated to gather and unify German territories.
What are the Danish War, Austro-Prussian/Seven Weeks War, Franco-Prussian War.
This was a diplomatic meeting where the great powers of Europe established ground rules for the colonization of Africa.
What was the Berlin Conference?
This man led a military campaign to unify the southern Italian states.
Who was Giuseppe Garibaldi?
This is the identification of common language, heritage, religion, ethnicity that compelled actions amongst many European people in the 19th c.
What is nationalism?
Once part of the Dutch Empire, these western European people created one the more liberal governments in Europe after revolt and independence.
Who were the Belgians?
The notion of embracing any methods to achieve a political goal, regardless morals, ethics or consequences.
What is realpolitik or political realism?
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Explain the reason for the Ch'ing Dynasty waging the Opium Wars against Great Britain.
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This was a system of government in Old Europe where monarch would claim power to rule based on the word of god.
What is a divine right absolute monarchy?
Revolutions in this city began a wave of revolts that swept across Europe in 1848.
What is Paris?
As a result of defeat in the Seven Weeks War, this nation had to grant greater autonomy to one of its subject nations...what nation was it and what political change was the result?
What is Austria and the formation of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary?
This was a type of imperial control where a nation sought mainly economic exclusivity in a region, rather than direct colonial control.
What is a sphere of influence?
Who was Camilo di Cavour?
This was a common modification of government systems in Europe post-French Revolution, where a monarch's power was limited by a set of laws guaranteed its citizens.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This was a meeting in the German states, where a proposal to unite Germany under a liberal constitution failed.
What was the Frankfurt Assembly?
The name of the two territories that Piedmont Sardinia gained from Austria in order to unify the Northern Italian states.
What are Lombardy and Venetia?
An ideology that applied Darwinian biological principles to humanity/civilization that employed the notion of 'survival of the fittest' when engaging in conquest and made subjugation of indigenous peoples a natural outcome.
Political realism is a modern interpretation of this 16th century philosopher.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?