A Mexican priest in the parish of Dolores who uttered the famous “el Grito de Dolores” (“the cry of Dolores”) speech in 1810.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
100
The means by which Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed.
What is the guillotine?
100
Brother of the guillotined Louis XVI, was made king of France in 1814.
Who is Louis XVIII?
100
His improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
Who is James Watt?
100
He believed that the Sun, rather than the Earth, is at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
200
Venezuelan-born revolutionary who fought to free Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela from Spanish colonial rule.
Who is Simon Bolívar?
200
Maximilien de Robespierre lead this period of the French Revolution in which over 17,000 people were officially tried and executed, and an unknown number of others died in prison or without trial.
What is the Reign of Terror?
200
In 1815, Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled to this island in the Atlantic Ocean where he would die.
What is St. Helena?
200
A person who invests her or his money in a business to make a profit.
Who is a capitalist/entrepreneur?
200
In political philosophy, a theory in which people give up some freedoms to a ruler in order to live in an organized society.
What is the social contract?
300
They heavily influenced Latin American revolutionary leaders during the 18th century.
Who are Enlightenment thinkers?
300
Parisians stormed this fortress when news of Louis XVI’s plan to use military force against the National Assembly reached Paris on July 14, 1789.
What is the Bastille?
300
The period of time between Napoleon’s escape from Elba, his triumphant march into Paris, and his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
What is the Hundred Days?
300
This metal served as the basic building block of large machines, railroad tracks, trains, and ships.
What is iron?
300
He was tried before the Inquisition in 1633 for defending Copernicus' heliocentric model.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
Famous Haitian revolutionary who died in a French prison after his capture in 1802.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
400
This document pledged "liberty, equality, and fraternity."
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
400
Napoleon set him up as king of Spain.
Who is Joseph Bonaparte?
400
England’s had vast amounts of reserves of this sedimentary rock that was used to power steam engines.
What is coal?
400
A British feminist who argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
500
People born on the Iberian Peninsula, who held the highest position in colonial Latin American society.
Who are Peninsulares?
500
Revolting against years of exploitation, peasants looted and burned the homes of tax collectors, landlords and the nobles.
What is the Great Fear?
500
The end of feudalism, equality before the law and religious toleration were all guaranteed under this collection of laws.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
500
Completed in 1914, this waterway provided access from one side of the Americas to the other without the need to sail around the tip of South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
500
Absolute monarchs who were interested in political and social change.