Revolutionary Transformations and New Languages of Freedom
This political principle, championed by the Enlightenment thinkers, argues that political power resides in the people themselves rather than in a monarch.
What is popular sovereignty?
A movement that spread ideas like natural rights liberty, equality, and government by reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
The reason for the new trade in Africa.
What is improving the standard of living?
This 18th and 19th century shift saw basic staples like food, fibers, and fuel replace luxury goods in global trade.
What is the global reordering of trade?
This group largely supported Constantine and came from wealthy, elite families
Who are the Decembrists?
In 1789, this French social class declared themselves the "National Assembly" and swore the Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to disband until they wrote a constitution.
Who are The Third Estate (commoners)?
The idea that a governments's power comes from the people not kings or divine right.
What is popular sovereignty?
This religious group, also known as the Society of Friends, was the first to lobby the British Parliament to end the slave trade
Who are the Quakers?
This revolution drastically lowered the cost of manufactured goods and increased demand for imported raw materials like cotton.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This person was heir of Tsar Alexander and ended up ascending to the throne
Who is Tsar Nicholas?
Emerging in the 19th century, this form of political organization links a people sharing common language, culture, and history to a sovereign government.
What is the Nation-State?
The revolution that created the US and inspired later independence movements world wide.
What is the American revolution?
These regimes collapsed once chieftains could no longer use the slave trade to finance their retinues and armies.
What are many West Africa regimes?
This city became the world's firearms capital, supplying guns globally and fueling Europe's military industrial expansion.
What is Birmingham?
The locations of witch the British East India Company collected tax revenues.
What is Bengal,Bihar, and Orissa?
Although he rose to power defending the French Republic, he declared himself Emperor in 1804 and spread legal reforms like the Civil Code across Europe though conquest.
Who's is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The successful slave led revolution in Saint Domingue that led to the first independent black republic.
What is the the Haitian revolution?
Formerly enslaved people in East Africa often transitioned into these specific lines of work.
What are soldiers and porters?
This British invention, improved by James Watt, provided cheap rotary power and transformed manufacturing and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
This person won supreme power in Egypt, and is well known for modernization.
Who is Muhammed Ali Pasha?
This violent period of the French Revolution was led by the Committee of Public Safety and involved the execution of thousands of "enemies of the revolution" via the guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
A major contradiction of many political reorderings: freedom expanded, but this group was still excluded from full rights in most societies.
Who were women?
This former enslaved boy began his career paddling canoes of palm oil to coastal ports before rising to become the Merchant Prince of Opobo.
Who is King Jaja Opobo (1821-1891)?
This group rose to prominence in growing commercial cities, made up of non-aristocratic business owners and financiers.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
This was the drug-related crisis that the Qing Dynasty faced.
What was the Opium Wars?