A Long Time Ago
A government in which people elect officials to make decisions is known as this.
What is a representative democracy/republic?
This French lawyer became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the most violent phase of the French Revolution.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
During this period, the Committee of Public Safety executed thousands of people accused of being traitors to the revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This industry was the first to feel the effects of the Industrial Revolution.
What are textiles?
This 1884 meeting set out how to divide up Africa between European countries, without any representatives from Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This elastic substance, which comes from the sap of trees, became a major export from the Congo that led to atrocities at the hands of the Belgian government.
What is rubber?
This is the term for governing in a "parental" way by providing for needs but not giving rights.
What is paternalism?
Luigi Mangione was charged with the murder of the CEO of this health insurance company.
What is United Healthcare?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that the role of government was to protect natural rights (life, liberty, and property) and that the people had the right to overthrow bad governments.
Who is John Locke?
These members of Paris' working class supported radical change and wanted to "breech" the old ways of the estate system.
Who are the sans-culottes?
This was the name of the French naval blockade established during the Napoleonic Wars to damage the British economy.
What is the Continental System?
What is the steam engine?
This term describes a country or territory directly under the control and government of a foreign power.
What is a colony?
The invention of this machine gun aided in European entry into the interior of Africa.
What is the Maxim gun?
Term for absorbing colonized people into the culture of the imperialist nation
What is assimilation?
The song "Last Christmas" was originally released in 1984 by this British pop duo.
What is Wham!?
This was the agreement between government and the people that stated that some freedoms were given up in return for safety and security.
What is the social contract?
The revolutions in South America were led mainly by this social class of people in Spanish Colonial society.
Who are creoles?
Napoleon came into power through this seizing of power of the government.
What is coup d'etat?
What is "laissez faire"?
This was the belief that some races were more "fit" to survive than others.
What is Social Darwinism?
This African country, led by Menelik II, was the only to successfully resist European colonization during the period of New Imperialism.
What is Ethiopia?
This colony was seen as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire because of its raw materials and large population/market for British manufactured goods.
What is India?
Artist Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" recently sold for $6.24 million. The piece features this item duct tapped to a blank wall.
What is a banana?
Baron de Montesquieu supported this idea that government power should be balanced across three branches.
This was the name of the French document that outlined the values of the National Assembly and guaranteed rights and freedoms.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This meeting organized by Klemens von Metternich following Napoleon's defeat sought to stabilize Europe through restoration of monarchies and a balance of power.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
The Communist Manifesto, written by German philosophers Friedrich Engels and this author, outlined the history of tensions between the haves and have nots that would result in a workers revolution.
Who is Karl Marx?
This is the term for a country with its own internal government, but under the control of an outside power.
What is a protectorate?
This waterway in Egypt connected the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, creating a shortcut to Asia from Europe.
What is the Suez Canal?
This phrase, popularized in the Rudyard Kipling poem of the same name, refers to the idea that it was the duty of the west to "civilize" conquered (colonized) peoples.
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
Kobe Bryant was drafted with the 13th pick of the 1996 NBA Draft by this basketball team before being traded to the Lakers.
Who are the Charlotte Hornets?
This Enlightenment thinker argued for the rights of the accused including due process of law and abolishing the death penalty.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
Name of the Venezuelan (creole) general who helped to liberate South America from Spanish rule in establishing Gran Colombia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This formerly enslaved person became a military general and led the overthrow of the French during the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This is an economic system in which major industries are owned by the government/public along with private ownership to help to decrease gaps between rich and poor.
What is socialism?
The exploitation of the Congo by this Belgian king is seen as one of the most gruesome and brutal parts of the period of imperialism in Africa.
Who is King Leopold II?
This event led to the period known as the Raj, a more direct control of India by the British government.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny/Indian Rebellion of 1857?
What is quinine?
Mr. Lin has myopia, which means he suffers from this.
What is nearsightedness?