Political Revolutions
This moderate revolution resulted in a nation with ideals based on the Enlightenment political principles of self-government, separation of powers, and private property from philosophers such as Montesquieu and John Locke
What is the American Revolution?
These structures replace cottage industry as the most important producers of manufactured goods at the onset of the Industrial Revolution
What are factories?
This European island created the largest empire ever known during the colonial period
What is England/Britain/British Empire?
Britain forced farmers in India to grow poppy from which this drug was created. The British sold this drug in large quantities in China.
What is Opium?
Francis Bacon developed this crucial thought process, which made use of evidence and experimentation to discover the laws of nature. This thought process is the basis of today's scientific method.
What is empiricism?
This extreme revolution began with the storming of the Bastille. The revolutionary slogan was "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
What is the French Revolution?
While the Second Industrial Revolution was powered by gasoline and electricity, the factories, ships, and trains of the First Industrial Revolution were powered by this...
What is Steam?
In the time period c. 1750-1900, Imperialism is the dominant political force across the globe, however, as this time period progressed this ideology became more and more prevalent and would overtake imperialism as the dominant force in world politics after WWII.
What is Nationalism?
This dynasty ended in 1912 after over 250 years of rule in China. During this period, this dynasty brutally dealt with rebellions such as the Taiping Rebellion, which resulted in 20 - 30 million Chinese deaths
What is the Qing Dynasty?
Adam Smith described this free-market economic system as a replacement for mercantilism in The Wealth of Nations.
This system would later be a key component of the Cold War when it vied against communism to be the dominant force in world economics.
What is Capitalism?
This extreme revolution was inspired by both the American and French Revolutions and is noted for the brutality of both sides of the war
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This precursor to telephones allowed for instantaneous communication over vast distances for the first time in human history...
The failure to do this is often credited for the inability of some African and Asian states to defend themselves against European powers during the time period c. 1750-1900
What is Industrialize?
Britain ceded this territory back to China in 1997 after ruling over it for circa 150 years. Britain won this territory from China after the Opium Wars.
What is Hong Kong?
The Enlightenment's emphasis on individual rights led to an increase in these two movements which advocate for withheld rights of two oppressed classes of people
What are Feminism and Abolition?
This thought revolution, beginning in the 1600s, was influential on the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. It involved major breakthroughs in science, political theory, and rational though
What is the Englightenment?
This term describes the mass movement of individuals and families from rural areas to cities...
What is Urbanization?
This result of over farming one particular crop in a region is still felt today in some of the former colonies of imperial, industrialized powers of the 19th century.
What is Monoculture?
Encouraged by Empress Dowager Cixi and her command to kill or expel foreigners, this event involved Chinese martial artists attacking and often beheading Chinese Christians. This event was put down by an alliance of industrialized countries from Europe, Japan, and the United States.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This philosopher wrote of the social contract between the rulers of a country and the citizens. He also coined the phrase "life, liberty, and property," which inspired Jefferson to write "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Who is John Locke?
This ideology is often associated with rebellions against imperialist powers and involves people with similar language, culture, and ethnicities seeking to be in charge of their own political destiny, rather than being under the thumb of a faraway emperor/empress...
What is Nationalism?
These political dependents provided the raw materials to the factories of imperial powers such as Britain, France, and other European industrial powers...
What are colonies?
This TIG (Turkish, Islamic, Gunpowder) Empire was ended by the British after the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 and replaced by the British Raj (direct rule over India)
What is the Mughal Empire?
This East Asian country would dominate China from the late 19th Century until 1945 due to this country's rapid industrialization and militarism
What is Japan?
What is Classical Liberalism?