Age of Revolutions
The Age of Revolutions occurred primarily during these centuries.
What are the late 18th–early 19th centuries?
The Industrial Revolution first began in this country.
What is Britain?
This movement involved landowners converting common lands into private farms.
What is the enclosure movement?
Building an empire requires more than conquest because this challenge exists.
What is maintaining control across large distances?
Conquering empires often impose these three things on subject populations.
What are language, laws, and religion?
Two major transformations during the Age of Revolutions were these two revolutions.
What are the Industrial and Democratic Revolutions?
The Industrial Revolution involved a shift from this type of economy to an industrial one.
What is an agrarian economy?
One major effect of enclosure was this population shift.
What is the displacement of rural populations?
Subjugated peoples often resist empire because they possess this advantage.
What is knowledge of the local terrain and ability to rally support?
Imperial conquest frequently disrupts these long-standing aspects of society.
What are traditions and customs?
Democratic revolutions were largely inspired by these intellectual ideas.
What are Enlightenment ideals?
Textile production during the Industrial Revolution was especially associated with this material.
What is cotton?
Industrialization created a large urban working population known as this class.
What is the proletariat?
Empires rely on this form of persuasion to convince citizens to support expansion.
What is rhetoric?
These countries became major European imperial powers.
What are England, France, Spain, Holland, and Portugal?
This revolution occurred in 1776.
What is the American Revolution?
This social class emerged during industrialization as factory laborers.
What is the proletariat?
Enclosure helped push rural people toward this type of work.
What is industrial or factory labor?
Writers often influence empires by doing this.
What is supporting, sustaining, or challenging empires?
Imperial conquest was often justified as this type of mission.
What is a civilizing mission?
This revolution became the only successful large-scale slave revolt in history.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Industrialization caused environmental problems such as these two major effects.
What are pollution and deforestation?
The Industrial Revolution fundamentally shifted society from rural agriculture toward this system.
What is industrial production?
European imperial expansion was largely driven by competition for these things.
What are resources, markets, and trade routes?
This phrase was commonly used to justify imperial expansion.
What is “the white man’s burden”?