People/Countries
Maybe the most well known person for Age of Exploration. When he landed in the Caribbean in 1492, he thought he was in Asia at first.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This economic system is founded on the ideas of Adam Smith and laissez-faire, or “hands-off” government.
What is capitalism?
This involved the sale of common lands to private individuals in Great Britain, and was responsible for significant immigration from rural to urban areas.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This idea dominated the first half of the nineteenth century because monarchs and governments in Europe worked hard to maintain their traditional power.
What is conservatism?
the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines. Its start and end are widely debated by scholars, but the period generally spanned from about 1760 to 1840
What is industrial revolution?
This Industrial Revolution invention was one of most important innovative techniques for making steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer and/or Bessemer Process?
a political system in which a single monarch, usually a king or queen, holds complete and unrestrained power over a country. The power of an absolutist government may not be challenged or limited.
What is absolutism?
What effect did the Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution have on population size and location in rural or urban centers?
What is increased it, and more people moved from rural to urban centers?
The countries that are known to have taken over many parts of Africa for the sake of imperialism
Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands.
state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. In ancient times, rulers in China, western Asia, and the Mediterranean extended their power through this time period.
What is imperialism?
set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. It can be broadly defined as a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land, known as a fiefdom or fief, in exchange for service or labour.
What is feudalism?
The author of the Prince (Machiavelli as an author to a famous piece of political literature in The Renaissance).
Who is Machiavelli?
This idea was used to defend paternalism, was an ideological motivator for European imperialism, and developed out of this naturalist’s ideas about evolution.
What is Social Darwinism and who is Charles Darwin?
officially began in the early 15th century and lasted through the 17th century. The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge
What is Age of Exploration?