Exploration
Goods like cotton sent to Europe - Manufactured goods such as weapons or rum sent to Africa - Slaves from Africa sent to North America. This process represents what route?
The Triangular trade route.
This Russian dynasty, highlighted by Peter the Great, would rule for over 300 years.
Who are the Romanovs?
Political theory and form of government in which unlimited, complete power is held by a centralized sovereign individual
What is Absolutism?
The American colonists dumped a bunch of tea into the Boston harbor in protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This estate made up the majority of the French population.
What is the 3rd estate?
Many goods were exchanged from the Old World and the New World in this exchange.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Considered one of the best French Kings who led to greatness. He eventually led France to economic ruin after his economic advisor died.
Who is Louis XIV?
Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon helped develop this method of questioning.
What is the scientific method?
Native Americans took part in this North American conflict between France and Great Britain.
What is the French and Indian War?
This royal couple really did a number on France. Both would end up being executed.
Who are Louis XVI and Marie Antionette?
The goal is to build up as much wealth as you can with this economic policy?
His army would fight with the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
Who is Charles I?
This bloodless revolution pushed out King James II.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The first official government of the united states was called the...
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Military genius who would come to rule France...then be kicked out of France...then returned to power...then kicked out for one last time.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
After an unequal agreement over exploration rights the Pope helps Spain and Portugal with this agreement or treaty.
The Treaty of Tordesillas.
The monarch that would come to restore the English monarchy post English Civil War.
Who is Charles II?
This movement valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”.
What is the Enlightenment?
This British General surrendered at the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
Who is General Cornwallis?
This French leader once said, “Virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue.”
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
These two European nations started the Slave Trade
Who are Spain and Portugal?
After signing the Peace of Augsburg, which allowed Germans to choose their own religion. This king then retired to become a monk.
Who is Charles V?
Henry IV aimed to heal the wounds of France by allowing Protestants the right to worship freely with this decree.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
The Bill of Rights protects the rights of the accused and prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. This is due to the enlightened thinking of who?
Who is Beccaria?
Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
Who is the Duke of Wellington?