Revolutions
The leader of France, following the revolution and the monarchy.
Who was Napolean?
Discovered the Americas in 1492
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This empire was known for its walls.
What was the Byzantine Empire/Constantinople?
The loyalty of a people to their common culture, traditions, ethnicity, geographic territory, and the idea of self-rule
What is nationalism?
A means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. This was revolutionary in the sense that it opened up opportunities for cultures to mix and economies to grow.
What are railroads?
An important French political figure, best known to be killed by the item in this photo.
Who was Maximilian Robespierre?
Who was King Henry VIII?
This empire based out of the Middle East was known for its strong military, longevity, and destruction of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This idea claimed that certain races or classes of people were inherently superior and that social and economic inequality was a result of the "survival of the fittest." It was used to support racial ideas and imperialist tendencies, including colonialism, propaganda, exploitation, and oppression.
What is Social Darwinism?
This event left Africa to be divided up into pieces for different countries to rule. It had important value, especially to Europeans who were going through a period of imperialism.
What is the Scramble For Africa?
The country with the first successful slave revolt.
What is Haiti?
Wrote A Vindication of Rights of Woman in 1792 at the height of the Enlightenment period. In this text, she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, as was generally thought by people at the time, but rather appear that way because they are poorly educated and taught to be subservient.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
An early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. For some two hundred years, the empire stretched from the Indus river basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
What was the Mughal Empire?
A French principle that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” and specifically the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Man?
A machine that uses heat and steam pressure to create mechanical motion. It was the first machine capable of converting thermal energy to mechanical energy while being convenient and practical.
What is the Steam Engine?
This group of people had the highest social status in Latin America during the revolution.
Who were Peninsulares?
A revolutionary leader in the independence wars of South America and strove to liberate colonies from the Spanish Empire. He led Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru to their independence and even briefly united them as a single nation called Gran Colombia.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
This dynasty was founded by a northeast Asian people who called themselves Manchus. Their history, language, culture, and identity was distinct from the Chinese population, whom they conquered in 1644 when China was weakened by internal rebellions. The dynasty's cultural accomplishments included work with jade carving, painting, and porcelain.
What was the Qing Empire?
What is the Social Contract?
A series of wars fought by the British and the Chinese in the mid-19th century over the opium trade. The wars were both sparked by China's efforts to stop the opium trade, which was being conducted by British merchants. The British were successful.
What were the Opium Wars?
One of the elements that Napolean kept from the monarchy, even after the revolution.
What is Secular legal code?
The Albanian Ottoman governor and de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled all of Egypt, The Sudans, Hejaz and the Levant. He improved Egypt's irrigation system, on which its agriculture depended; he introduced new crops, such as cotton, which promised high cash returns; and he reorganized the administrative structure of the government to ensure strict control of the economy.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
Under strong leadership, this empire was able to stand in the 1500s, however, they lacked natural defense and stood alone on the Arabian Sea. This empire also had fluent art production and is known in Islamic history, including unique books, textiles, and architecture.
What was the Safavid Empire?
This idea was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In 1882, this act was passed by Congress. This act provided a 10-year ban on _______ immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Rising of Chinese militia organizations in 1900 in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed. In the end, it was a significant event in the history of China. It highlighted the pressures that the country was under at the time, due to the tensions created by foreign influence and western imperialism
What was the Boxer Rebellion?