French Revolution
Where did the representatives of the 3rd estate pledge to keep meeting until France had a constitution?
A tennis court
Technical/philosophical term for the idea that history has an end goal; a plan.
Teleology
On the Origin of Species
Event where America nearly doubled its size for $15 million.
The Louisiana Purchase
In what year was Mr. VanAmerongen born?
1994
The nickname for Louis XIV, earned because all of France (and Europe) revolved around him.
The Sun King
The historical thinking concept that seeks to answer why some things change, and why others stay the same:
Change and Continuity
The term given to the rapid, organized division of Africa into colonies.
The Scramble for Africa
The economic foundation that America was built on
The Plantation Economy
Technical term for Marx's idea that society must progress from one stage to another by revolution, as enforced by social and cultural change.
Dialectic Materialism
The name for government offices that could be purchased in pre-revolutionary France
Venal Office
The name for the idea that history is progressive - societies evolve and improve over time
The Modernist View (Linear-Progression Hypothesis)
Who said, "Darwin banned God from nature, Marx banned God from history, and I have banned God from man’s inner life.”
Fredriech Nietzsche
The Federalist Papers
The economic system where raw goods shipped to mother country and finished products shipped back
Mercantilism
The single word entry in Louis XVI's journal on the day of the fall of the Bastille.
Rien (nothing)
This man argued in his book The Structure of the Scientific Revolution that there are distinct paradigms and that moving from one to another is dramatic and fast.
The term for the awareness of individuals that they belong to a certain strata of society, and have more in common based on income and labour, than nationality.
Class Consciousness
The Great Awakening
Who wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen?
Olympe de Gouges
This man ushered in the Reign of Terror, re-designed France's calendar, and started the Cult of the Supreme Being.
Maximillian Robespierre
The name for the idea that there is no absolute historical truth and that any version of the past is shaped by bias, power, perspective.
The Post-Modern View (Fragmented Narrative Hypothesis)
This Romantic guy advocated for a return to nature, and proved it was possible by moving into a cabin near Walden Pond.
Henry David Thoreau
The idea, named after a president, that America would have a monopoly on power in the American hemisphere.
The Monroe Doctrine
China's greatest explorer who made 7 trips to the Middle East
Zheng He