Exploration & Trade
European nations began exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the 1400s primarily for this purpose.
What is "To find a new trade route to Asia and accumulate wealth"?
This term refers to the transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is "The Columbian Exchange"?
This system promotes private control of industry and trade with minimal government interference.
What is "Capitalism"?
The Three Estates in France represented these three social groups.
What are "Nobility, clergy, and commoners"?
Centralized power, strong standing military, justified their rule by divine right.
What are "Characteristics of absolute monarchy"?
This trade network involved the exchange of slaves, raw materials, and manufactured goods.
What is "Triangular Trade"?
New crops like potatoes and corn were transformative for European diets thanks to this exchange.
What is "The Columbian Exchange"?
Socialism and Communism are both different from Capitalism because they advocate for collective (or shared) control of this.
What are "Resources or means of production"?
This bloody event was a hallmark of the French Revolution.
What is "The Reign of Terror"?
Simón Bolívar, who played a pivotal role in South America's independence movements, was inspired by this.
What is "Revolutions in North America and France during the 18th century." ?
This term refers to the harrowing journey enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic.
What is "The Middle Passage"?
This ideology drove unification efforts in both Germany and Italy during the 19th century.
What is "Nationalism"?
This Enlightenment principle argues for dividing power among branches of government to prevent tyranny.
What is "Separation of powers"?
This "bloodless" English event established a limited monarchy and a Bill of Rights.
What is "The Glorious Revolution"?
Peter the Great strengthened Russia by building this modern military force.
Answer: What is "A navy"?
This economic theory encouraged European nations to accumulate wealth by controlling colonial resources.
What is "Mercantilism"?
A belief in cultural superiority and a "civilizing mission" were justifications for this 19th-century phenomenon.
What is "Western Imperialism"?
John Locke's idea of inalienable rights influenced these Enlightenment concepts.
What are "Natural rights"? (Such as life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness)
Child labor, over-crowded cities, environmental pollution.
What are "Negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution"?
This Russian leader suppressed minority ethnic groups in the name of nationalism.
Who is "Tsar Alexander III"?
Major long-lasting consequence of the African slave trade in Africa.
What is " A long-lasting destabilizing impact on African societies" ?
Unlike communism, socialism allows for some degree of private property and this type of democratic governance.
What is "Representative democracy"?
This concept suggests that individuals consent to give up some freedoms in exchange for protection and order provided by a government.
What is "The Social Contract"?
These reforms in Japan aimed at industrialization and modernization in the late 19th century.
What are "The Meiji Reforms"?
Louis XIV transformed this palace into a grand symbol of his power and control over the nobility.
What is "Versailles"?