The World Reinvention
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Transfer of plants, animals, people and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What was the Enlightenment?
A period of new thinking about government, reason, and individual rights in 1600s-1700s.
What was a result of the Tennis Court Oath?
- decided not to disband until they create a new constitution; declared themselves the National Assembly
What is mercantilism
economic policy where colonies expand to get more resources to sell.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
A U.S declaration freeing slaves in Confederate states during the Civil War.
Name one short-term and one long-term effect of the Columbian Exchange.
Short-term: Spread of disease; Long-term: population growth, new diets.
How did the Great Awakening respond to the Enlightenment?
What was Manifest Destiny?
belief that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America.
How did Romanticism contrast the Enlightenment?
Focussed on emotion, beauty, feeling and spirituality rather than reason and logic
Name one major cause and one result of WW1?
alliances; Treaty of Versailles
What is religious syncretism?
The blending of different religious beliefs and practices.
"people are basically good but are corrupted by society" - Which Enlightenment thinker said this?
Rousseau
Who led the Reign of Terror?
Jacobins; Robespierre
What is convict leasing?
leasing out African Americans who have been arrested to private companies
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
a peace treaty that blamed Germany for WW1 and imposed reparations.
What religion was the Mughal Empire and where were they located?
Muslim; Around India
What are two ways that Enlightenment ideas spread?
Encyclopedie; salons; coffeehouses
Name a long-term effect of industrialization.
What was the Sadler Committee Report?
Sadler (lawyer) interviewed child laborers during the Industrial Revolution to shed light on the terrible work conditions for children
Who led the Russian Revolution and what did they believe in?
Lenin and the Bolsheviks - communism.
What was the strange political structure that made the Ottoman empire so powerful at the time compared to the European political structure?
sultans (highest up people) had supreme control and couldn't be challenged by nobles (because nobles couldn't hold too much power)
What did Montesquieu believe was the important for government?
Separation of powers in government.
War between French and British over North America. Britain won. Lots of debt. They needed to get money back so they taxed Americans.
What were the motivations for the slave trade?
profit, labour for plantations
What does the word "soviet" mean?
"workers group"