Comparative Religion/Gov
A government where a king or queen rule with absolute power
What is an absolute monarchy?
Christopher Columbus was sent by THIS country to find a direct route to Asia from Europe by sea.
What is Spain?
Catholics and Protestants are both different branches of this religion.
What is Christianity?
Heliocentric Theory places this celestial body in the center of the universe.
What is the Sun?
This protest of "No taxation without Representation" saw Americans throwing tea into Boston Harbor before the American Revolution.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This Middle Eastern religion believes in the word of Mohammad and the holy book, the Qur'an
What is Islam?
When the Ottoman Empire took over the Byzantines, they renamed the capital city of Constantinople this.
What is Istanbul?
This English king disbanded Parliament for 11 years and lost his head in the English Civil War.
Who was Charles I
A government leader that abuses their power and has absolute control of the government was known as this during the Enlightenment.
What is a Tyrant?
This Estate in French society had the most people in it, made up of mostly farmers and the middle class. They also had to pay all the taxes.
What was the Third Estate?
This system of government uses religious doctrine and teaching to create its laws.
What is Theocracy?
Horses and Wheat all originate from this continent prior to the Columbian Exchange.
What is Europe?
Parliament reestablished monarchy and Charles II took over as king during this period.
What is the Restoration?
Separation of powers in government, the three branches of government, and the book The Spirit of Law are associated with this Enlightenment thinker.
This Jacobin leader took power after killing the king and queen, killing thousands and destroying church land in this event.
What was the Reign of Terror?
What are the Abrahamic Religions?
This is the leg of the Atlantic Slave Trade that brought people over from Africa to be enslaved in the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Glorious Revolution replaced the Catholic King of England with these Protestant rulers after they signed the English Bill of Rights.
Who are William III and Mary II?
Adam Smith worked on his theory of economics that, translating to "Hands off", allows business to run the market without government control.
What is Laissez-faire capitalism?
This Enlightenment leader influenced Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence when he wrote "[all men] are endowed with certain unalienable rights."
Who was John Locke?
In Hinduism and Buddhism, this is the name of the wheel of reincarnation that everyone is trying to escape to reach Nirvana
Enslaved people from West Africa were used to pay for this type of good from Europe.
What are manufactured goods?
This group of people in England were given rights under the English Bill of Rights.
Who were the Protestant Members of Parliament?
This Enlightenment thinker, who believed that women could reason and should have the same rights as men, was also the mother of Frankenstein's author.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
The purpose of this agreement was to maintain the status quo in Europe and protect monarchies from invaders.
What was the Concert of Europe?