AGE OF ABSOLUTISM
This type of ruler had total control over a nation and did not share power.
What is an absolute monarch?
This movement encouraged people to use reason and logic instead of only religion.
What is the Enlightenment?
A political revolution occurs when people overthrow a government and create this.
What is a new government?
This was the change from producing goods by hand to producing goods using machines in factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This term describes love, loyalty, and devotion to one’s country.
What is nationalism?
The belief that kings received their power directly from God was called this.
What is Divine Right?
The idea that planets revolve around the sun is called this theory.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This 1689 revolution limited the power of English monarchs.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This country was the first to industrialize because it had coal, iron, and waterways.
What is Great Britain (England)?
Italy and Germany wanted to unite because their people shared language, culture, and this.
What is history?
Name the Russian ruler who westernized his country to make it stronger.
Who was Peter the Great?
He believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke?
This document gave equal rights and fair taxation during the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities for factory jobs was called this.
What is urbanization?
This leader used a “blood and iron” policy to unify Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This French king was a famous absolute monarch known for expanding France’s power.
Who was Louis XIV?
This Enlightenment thinker supported dividing government into three branches.
Who was Baron de Montesquieu?
This violent period of the French Revolution led to thousands of executions.
What is the Reign of Terror?
These organizations were formed by workers to improve pay and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Three nationalists helped unify Italy, including Garibaldi and this political leader who was Prime Minister.
Who is Count Camillo di Cavour?
These three rulers expanded their empires by conquering neighboring lands.
Who were Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and Suleiman the Magnificent?
This Scientific Revolution figure developed calculus and the law of gravity.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
He led France after the revolution and was defeated after invading Russia.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
These two thinkers wrote the Communist Manifesto and criticized laissez-faire capitalism.
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
What is Austria-Hungary (also acceptable: Ottoman Empire)?
What is Austria-Hungary (also acceptable: Ottoman Empire)?