What's the Big Idea?
This concept allowed for repeatable experiments and the creation of a universal understanding of the natural world via peer review.
What is the Scientific Method?
This economic group by far suffered the most from urbanization in terms of quality of life, life span, and work conditions.
Who are the Working Class?
This revolution set off a chain of future revolutions rippling all across the Atlantic Ocean, and would eventually bring a new world power to the diplomatic stage.
What is the American Revolution?
Adam Smith in his text, the Wealth of Nations, created this ideology on how economics should work.
What is modern capitalism/laissez-faire capitalism?
This was the only Asian state to rise and succeed at the industrialization game.
What is Japan?
This idea made democracies more robust, and also enfranchised more and more of world.
What is expanded suffrage rights? (poor, women, minority)
This philosopher's ideas were massively consequential for global history, and presented a massive challenge to modern capitalism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This revolution created the first black republic, and caused the French to levy a massive debt on this young nation that helped to cobble it permanently.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This group in society gained the MOST from the industrial revolution in terms of influence and privilege.
Who are factory/company owners?
Adam Smith called this a necessary element of a strong economy, and involves the focusing of an individual into one specific task instead of a general understanding.
What is specialization of Labor?
This innovation was the biggest driver of the first Industrial Revolution.
What is the Steam Engine?
This movement was harnessed by great thinkers like Olympe de Gouges, and has since evolved over the last few centuries.
What is modern feminism?
This revolution was propelled by the events of 1776, and resulted in the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen."
What is the French Revolution?
This economic innovation caused greater consumer participation in world economics, and helped to rapidly increase the power of the West's wallet.
What are Stock Exchanges/Markets?
While there was an abundance of this in the UK, there was significantly less in France, and this gap in material helped slow French domination around the globe.
What is coal?
This "ism" called for self rule, unity, and the fostering of national education with public schools and museums.
What is Nationalism?
This was the largely failed series of reforms by the Ottoman Empire that attempted to keep it relevant in the face of rapidly expanding European states.
What are the Tanzimat reforms?
This revolution caused the world to embrace rationalism more, and was a precursor to the Enlightenment.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
These emerged as the primary, if not sole means for the working class to secure better labor conditions, weekends, pay, and more.
What are Labor Unions?
This was the "coal" of the 2nd Industrial Revolution of 1870-1914.
What is petroleum?
This group of political and cultural thinkers helped ensure that the reactive industrializing reforms of the Qing and the Ottoman Empires would fail.
Who are conservatives/traditionalists?
This movement saw great success thanks to feminists, and caused major imperial states to alter their primary means of labor.
What is abolitionism?
This famed leader supported a series of revolutions set the Spanish Imperial World on fire, and now has a country named for him.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This economic/legal principle led some countries to evolve and industrialize faster than others, and can best explain why America and the UK was able to succeed more than Russia, who had more land and resources.
What are Private Property Rights?
This was the monumental feat that was achieved thanks to the work of John Snow, and was tantamount to having a second city built upon another.
What are modern sewage systems?