VOCABULARY & TERMS
This system was based on land, loyalty, and protection.
Feudalism
In medieval Europe, who usually worked the land?
Serfs/Peasants
Name ONE reason Europeans explored outside of Europe.
Advanced technology, Natural Resources, Shortcut to India, Global trade
Which revolution was inspired by Enlightenment ideas?
FRENCH, AMERICAN, HAITAIN, LATIN AMERICA
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
Napoleon was the leader of France at the end of the French Revolution, a mighty and smart military leader, who got France out of the Revolution French Emperor
This exchange connected the Old World and the New World through goods, people, and diseases.
Colombian Exchange
What group held the most power in an absolute monarchy?
The KING
What helped Europeans conquer large Indigenous empires?
Advanced technology, guns, diseases
What idea says people are born with basic rights?
NATURAL RIGHTS JOHN LOCKE
What was the Napoleonic Code?
Set of laws created by Napoleon for France after the FRENCH Revolution. Gave people equal rights.
This term describes pride and loyalty toward one’s nation.
Nationalism
Why did European economies in the Americas depend on enslaved labor?
Name ONE positive and ONE negative effect of the Columbian Exchange.
Positives: more food in the world, growth in population in Europe, animals like horses, chickens, and new medicines.
Negatives: Slavery and Diseases (Smallpox)
Why did people begin to question kings and monarchs in the 1700s?
ENLIGHTENMENT, QUESTIONED DIVINE RIGHT, MOVE AWAY FROM RELIGION, NEW FOCUS ON SCIENCE, MORE INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD THROUGH TRADE
How did Napoleon gain power in France?
A coup d'état is a forced overthrow of power with the military.
This movement emphasized reason, natural rights, and questioning authority
The Enlightenment
In Feudalism, these would be in what order?
a: Serf
B: Noble
C: King
D: Knight
C: KING
B: NOBLE
D: KINGHT
A: SERF
Why did diseases have such a large impact on Indigenous populations?
NEW WORLD WAS ISOLATED OR SEPARATE, the people were not used to the germs or Europeans
What problem caused anger among the Third Estate in France?
NO REPRESENTATION
HEAVY TAXES
INEQUAILITY
STARVATION
What is nationalism?
Intense love or loyalty for your country, a group of people, culture, or race.
This set of laws created under Napoleon applied equally to citizens
The Napoleonic Code
Why was slavery important to plantation economies?
How did European expansion change the Americas socially or economically?
Mercantilism, colonialism, cash crops, increased trade, creation of the caste system, colorism, and the spread of Christianity.
How did Enlightenment ideas turn into revolutionary action?
People demanded natural rights, separation of powers, in their countries and began to fight their governments to get these things.
How did nationalism help lead to German unification?
Germans in Prussia wanted to unite ALL German people (German States) into ONE GERMANY.