The French Revolution
The leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Toussaint Louverture?
A large building used to assemble and manufacture goods with heavy machinery.
What is a factory?
The conference where European empires divided the entire continent of Africa among themselves.
What was the Berlin Conference?
The drug that Britain sold China's population en masse for a high profit, thus making millions of people weaker.
What is opium?
The wife of Louis XVI and the queen of France.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
The united state of northern South America after the Wars of Independence. Today it has become the countries of Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
What is Gran Colombia?
The "proletariat", the group of people in society who's physical and mental labor powers the economy.
What is the working class?
What is Ethiopia?
DAILY DOUBLE
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is colonialism?
The leader of the Reign of Terror who ultimately met the same punishment he gave to his political enemies: beheaded by guillotine.
Who was Robespierre?
The cash crop that fueled the slave trade in the Caribbean and much of Brazil.
What is sugar cane?
The process of moving away from an economy based on agriculture and towards an economy based off of manufactured goods and production in factories.
What is industrialization?
The cash crop of the Congo Free State that made King Leopold II rich and lead to deaths of tens of millions of Congolese.
What is rubber?
The old name of India when it was colonized by the British.
What is British Raj?
The radical leftwing faction of the French Revolution.
Who were the Jacobins?
The old economic caste system of Latin America where white Spaniards born in Spain had the most power and enslaved Black and Indian peoples had the least.
What was the encomienda system?
The rundown, overcrowded, rotting homes where hundreds of workers in Victorian Britain lived as they sought out jobs in factories in big cities.
What are poor houses?
The two empires who controlled the most amount of land in Africa.
What is Britain and France?
The era of Japanese history when Western cultural, political, and economic institutions were adopted by the state.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
The prison that on 14 July, 1789, was stormed by revolutionaries who seized control of the medieval armory and freed political prisoners.
What was the Bastille?
The riot that sparked the Haitian Revolution in 1789, this voudou ceremony provoked recently arrived Africans to burn down white settlements.
What was Bois Caiman?
In French, this refers to the "owning class", meaning the capitalists and aristocrats who own the means of production.
What is the bourgeoisie?
The king of the Zulu tribes who lead his South African empire against British and Dutch colonial armies.
Who was Shaka Zulu?
The country in Asia colonized by the United States following the defeat of the Spanish Empire.
What is the Philippines?