THE WORLD IN 1750
This empire controlled much of present-day India before British rule expanded.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This French prison became a symbol of royal oppression when it was stormed in 1789.
What is the Bastille?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Britain?
This 1884–1885 meeting divided Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The assassination of this Austrian archduke helped trigger World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Japanese policy limited foreign influence and isolated the country from most outside contact.
What is the policy of isolation (sakoku)?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This invention by James Watt greatly improved transportation and manufacturing.
What is the steam engine?
This phrase describes the rapid division of Africa by European nations.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
These four long-term causes of World War I are often remembered by the acronym M.A.I.N.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
In 1750, this empire controlled large parts of Southwest Asia, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This Haitian revolutionary led the successful slave revolt against French colonial rule.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This social class grew as factory owners accumulated wealth.
What is the bourgeoisie (middle class)?
This war in China resulted from British efforts to expand the opium trade.
What were the Opium Wars?
This treaty officially ended World War I and imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
How did the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan and the absolute monarchy in France maintain social order?
Both used strict social hierarchies that limited social mobility and reinforced the authority of the ruling class.
This Latin American leader helped liberate Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This economic system favors private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
his African nation successfully resisted Italian colonization at the Battle of Adwa.
What is Ethiopia?
This policy of giving in to aggressors was practiced by Britain and France before World War II.
What is appeasement?
Name one similarity between the Ottoman, Mughal, and Qing Empires in 1750.
They were large land-based empires, had centralized governments, ruled diverse populations, and relied on strong rulers.
This form of government gave monarchs complete control over their nations.
What is absolute monarchy?
This author wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
Who is Karl Marx?
This 1857 rebellion by Indian soldiers against British rule led Britain to take direct control of India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This genocide resulted in the murder of approximately six million Jews during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?