Renaissance & Reformation
The term Renaissance means:
Rebirth
What revolutionary innovation did Guttenburg construct?
The Printing press
Beginning in Great Britain around 1750, Europe experienced a different kind of revolution; one that would put the West on the path to achieve its hegemony over the rest of the world. This process would become known as:
Industrialism
The longest reigning empire was
Ottomans
Which controversial but still absolute monarch is credited with the initial modernization and westernization of Russia?
Peter the Great
Martin Luther disagreed with the Church’s practice of:
Indulgences
This philosophical movement emphasized "natural rights" and the idea that reason and logic, rather than tradition or religion, should govern human affairs
Scientific Revolution
Economic system in which people invest money to make a profit
Capitalism
This was the name for the exchange of people, goods & diseases between the Old world & New World
Columbus Exchange
Held in Vienna, Austria, from September 1814 to June 1815, the main goal of the Congress of Vienna was to accomplish what throughout Europe?
a balance of power that would maintain the peace
The process of challenging church authority and corruption and becoming less religious (for example, during the Scientific Revolution) is known as:
Secularism
In March 1919, Mussolini formed the Fascist party, galvanizing the support of many unemployed war veterans. He organized them into army squads whose job it was to terrorize any political opponents. What were these army squads known as
Black Shirts
The idea that all people in Asia - under the leadership of the Japanese nation - should band together to reduce Western influence in its region became better known as
Pan-Asianism
The Atlantic Slave Trade started after this group, initially used by colonial powers as a slave labor force, began rapidly dying off from European diseases
Indigenous
The Berlin Conference of 1885 stated that:
Any country occupying a coastline had access to the interior
This scientist created laws of motion and is credited with beginning the enlightenment.
Newton
This was the name for an era of European history in which privateers and adventurers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and others set sail in search of "New" lands:
Age of Exploration
The desire of a given ethnic group to form a country corresponding to that identity is otherwise known as:
Nationalism
Japan's victory over this major power marked the first time in the modern era that an Asian power defeated a European one, establishing Japan as a rising world power
Russia
Economic philosopher, Adam Smith, defended which economic theory:
capitalism
This is the name given to the model of the universe in which the sun is at the cente
heliocentric model
What revolutionary innovation did James Watt create?
The Steam Engine
This philosophy emphasizes the public ownership of goods, services and the means of production in a society:
communism/socialism
What was the primary purpose of the Tokyo Trials (1946-1948)?
To prosecute Japanese war criminals for crimes committed during World War II
This totalitarian leader modernized agriculture by implementing a system of collectivization - the grouping together of farms to be owned and regulated by the state:
Stalin