Unit 1
A term used for a ruler that gave themselves ultimate and total control over their people.
What is Absolutism?
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
A period of major mechanization and innovation that began in Great Britain during the mid-18th century and early 19th century and later spread throughout much of the world.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
A term to describe rulers who believed that their authority came directly from God.
What is "Divine right of Kings?"
An intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
What is the Enlightenment?
This assembly was composed of – the clergy, nobility and commoners in France before the Revolution.
What are the Three Estates?
An arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled.
What is an Assembly Line?
Two wars fought between the Chinese Qing dynasty and European powers. Both the wars were a result of the Qing Dynasty's attempts to curb the drug trade.
What were the Opium Wars?
Built the Palace of Versailles, ruled as an absolutist. Called himself the "Sun-King."
Who is Louis the XIV?
The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
A french word for the sudden and usually violent overthrow of a government.
What is a "Coup d'etat"?
What is Capitalism?
A period of modernization and industrialization in which Japan both embraced Western customs and sought to define its own sovereignty in the modern world.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances. Believed in "unalienable rights."
Who is John Locke?
He sowed the seeds for the European Enlightenment of the 18th century. He invented an improved telescope that let him observe and describe the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus, sunspots and the rugged lunar surface.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Controlled by Maximilen Robspierre, public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
What was the "Reign of Terror."
A type of government as well as an economic system where individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things. Everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create.
What is Communism?
A term used in foreign relations to describe a territory or region where an external group or institution holds power or authority in a foreign territory.
What is the "Sphere of Influence?"
Wrote the political works, "The Leviathan." Believed, the only way to escape the state of nature is to create a social contract. People create a contract by coming together in peace, agreeing to a set of laws, and creating a “sovereign”. The contract is made among the people to protect themselves from one another.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
model of the solar system centered on the Sun, with Earth and other planets moving around it.
What is Heliocentric Theory /Copernican System?
loyalty and devotion to a nation. especially exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.
What is Nationalism?
Best known for his early work "The Communist Manifesto." This work called for the overthrow of the social system of capitalism and the creation of a new, free, and equal society.
Also known as the father of modern socialism.
Who is Karl Marx?
An anti-foreign peasant movement, which emerged in 1898 in north China. Members of a secret martial arts society called the "Harmonious Fists." They blamed China's problems on foreigners, and especially on Christian missionaries.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?