Enlightenment
Belief that the sun is the center of the universe, and the Earth orbits around it.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
The King of France when the French Revolution began.
Who is Louis XVI?
This country was the first in the world to become industrialized.
What is Great Britain?
Meeting where seven European nations met to decide how Africa would be colonized.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This person took over in France and built the largest Empire seen since Rome.
Who is Napoleon?
Believed that people were naturally wicked, and needed to give up some freedoms for an absolute ruler to manage society.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What is the Bastille?
The process of a society shifting from small rural communities to being centered around large industrialized cities.
What is urbanization?
Dutch farmers that settled in South Africa, often clashing with the British, were known as this.
Who are Boers?
Was created as an humane way to execute people in the late 1700's. Ended up being used as a tool for mass executions during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Guillotine?
This person is best known for their development of the Law of Universal Gravitation.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The March on Versailles started after Parisian women were upset about the rising price of what product?
What is bread?
A voluntary association of workers who come together to push businesses for better wages and working conditions.
What are unions?
Soldiers that fought for the East India Trade company.
Who are Sepoys?
The nickname for India coined by the British due to its importance for their large oversea empire.
What is the Jewel in the Crown?
This person studied English law to determine government would work best with three separate branches of government. In which, each branch had their own powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The leader of the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Known as the father of Communism, created the Communist Manifesto describing distribution of wealth among all people.
Who is Karl Marx?
When Chinese nationalist violently rebelled against any form of European influence.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
The leader of Prussian forces who successfully won three wars to expand land in their effort to unify Germany.
Who is Otto Von Bismarck?
An agreement amongst a society to be governed.
What is a social contract?
The name of the intellectual members of the Third Estate that studied Enlightenment ideas and pushed for the revolution.
Who are the Bourgeoisie?
A policy created that lets owners of an industry set working standards without any government interference.
What is Laissez Faire?
Regions of China where Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia dominated trade and investment.
What is the Sphere of Influence?
He was the leader of the "red shirts" in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. He would eventually give in to King Emmanuel II knowing he was best to unify Italy.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?