Foundations (Renaissance & Scientific Revolution)
This technological innovation, championed by Johannes Gutenberg, significantly helped spread Reformation and Scientific ideas.
What is the Printing Press?
John Locke argued that all people are born with the right to Life, Liberty, and Property. These are known as....
What are Natural Rights?
This was the primary economic class (including doctors, lawyers, and merchants) that led the French Revolution in its initial phase.
What is The Bourgeoisie?
The Latin American Revolutions were largely triggered by the removal of the Spanish monarchy by this European leader.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The movement that emphasized human potential and achievements rather than divine or religious matters.
What is the Renaissance/Humanism?
This French Thinker championed the idea of separation of powers to prevent tyranny in government.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The French document that established popular sovereignty and guaranteed natural rights, inspired by the American model.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This leader, known as "El Libertador," successfully led independence movements across modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The belief that observation and experimentation should be used to understand the world, popularized by Francis Bacon, defines this.
What is the Scientific Method/Empiricism?
This thinker wrote The Social Contract, arguing that legitimate authority comes from the will of the people and the "general will."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This phase of the French Revolution was marked by mass executions using the guillotine and led by Robespierre.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This term refers to the power of a state to govern itself without the control of an outside power.
What is sovereignty?
Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei famously defended this model of the universe, where the sun is at the center.
What is the Heliocentric model?
Adam Smith's concept that the economy is guided by self-interest and minimal government interference is known as this economic policy.
What is Laissez-Faire Economics?
This historical military leader crowned himself emperor and brought order and a new legal system (The Code) to France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Haitian Revolution is unique among the Age of Revolutions because it was the only one led by this specific group.
What is enslaved people/slaves?
Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic practice of selling these pardons for sins started the Reformation.
What are indulgences?
Thomas Hobbes believed that life without government was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," making him a defender of this strong system.
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
One key difference between the American and French Revolutions is that the American Revolution was primarily directed against....
What is Colonial Rule/Taxation?
Double Jeopardy: Compare the motive of the Haitian Revolution to the motive of the American Revolution.
Haitian motive was freedom/abolition of slavery; American motive was self-governance/taxation