Key Terms
A code of moral laws given to Moses by God
What is the Ten Commandments
This is the type of democracy found in ancient Athens.
What is direct democracy?
This device was used to execute enemies of the state during the radical period of the revolution.
What is the guillotine?
It was hard to be an industrial worker in the 1800s, especially if you were so poor that you had to live in one of these small apartments.
What is a tenement?
When one group of people thinks they are superior to another, this was one of the motives for imperialism.
What is racism?
A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
What is an aristocracy?
The person who became the emperor of France and invaded nearly every country of Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This country was the first to industrialize because it had all of the factors of production.
What is Britain?
After the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, European countries rushed to carve up Africa into colonies during this historical development.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The growth of cities
What is urbanization?
This "great charter" was one of the earliest documents that entitled people to liberties and representation in England.
What is the Magna Carta?
The executive group led by Maximilien Robespierre whose mission it was to protect the revolution from its enemies.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
This invention in energy production allowed factories to be built anywhere and led to the development of locomotives.
What is the steam engine?
The leader of Ethiopia, who wisely upgraded to a modern military and skillfully played Europeans against each other.
Who is Menelik II?
A policy in which a group of people adopt the customs and practices of another nation
What is assimilation?
The doctrine proposed by John Locke that argues people are entitled to life, liberty, and property.
What is natural rights?
After the revolution began, French delegates wrote this document in which they wrote that every person had the right to liberty, security, and resistance to oppression.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
In formulating the concept of communism, this man argued that private property should be abolished and a classless society would emerge after a violent revolution of workers.
Who is Karl Marx?
What is indirect control?
Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
What is "Laissez Faire?"
The type of government established in England after the Glorious Revolution in 1689.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
The series of meetings in 1814 and 1815 that were organized for the purpose of achieving peace and stability in Europe after Napoleon's wars.
The economic system which argues that the means of production should be publicly owned and operated for the benefit of society at large.
This form of imperialism occurs when a stronger country tries to control trade and investment rather than conquering territory outright.
What is a sphere of influence?