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Enlightenment
Democratic Revolutions
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“He who trusts any man with supreme power gives it to a wild beast, for such his appetite sometimes makes him: passion influences those in power, even the best of men, but law is reason without desire…” -Aristotle ; - The feature of modern Western democratic government reflects the view that leaders must follow this.
What is law?
100
This person carried out the "Reign of Terror".
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
100
These are the 3 factors of production in industry.
What are Natural Resources, Labor, and Capital?
100
This is how technology played a role in in European countries expansion of empires and domination of other countries during the era of Imperialism.
What is European nations had more powerful weapons than the people in the lands they sought to colonize?
100
…Reason dictates that, contrary to the [current] configuration of the Orders [Estates]…the true Orders should be these: the poor; those who have only the necessities; the well-off; the rich; the opulent; the bloated. Now, according to this classification, the poor, from from paying, will have the right to receive assistance; those who have only necessities will neither pay nor receive, because only indigents will receive and because only those with excess will pay and those with real needs don’t come close to having excess; if the well-off must pay a twentieth, the rich must pay two and half times [more than the twentieth], the opulent six [times that], the bloated ten [times that].; - The author of the passage advocates for this socioeconomic group.
What is the poor/working class?
200
John Locke's Natural Rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
200
Approximately, this percentage of of France’s population belonged to the First and Second Estate pre-Revolution.
What is over 90%?
200
This is why the Industrial Revolution saw a rise of population in urban areas.
What is people were lured to cities to seek employment opportunities?
200
This was African people's initial reaction to European colonization.
What is resistance?
200
This person used a philosophy of nonviolent cooperation in an effort to achieve India's independence from Great Britain.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
300
‘...all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.’ - Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 ; - This is the philosopher who's ideas are represented in the passage.
Who is John Locke?
300
This was the French Estate of the Old Regime that was being ignored politically.
What is the Third Estate?
300
Decrepit and unsafe housing with no access to running water and toilets. The poor would live here during the Industrial Revolution.
What are tenements?
300
Adherents of this ideal confirmed its validity in saying that races of white Europeans were able to dominate “lesser” peoples, therefore white Europeans were the dominant members of the species.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Europeans divided Africa into colonies without consulting African leaders here.
What is the Berlin Conference?
400
This is the document where the principle of limitation of governmental power first stated.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
This leader of South America was inspired by the ideas of the American Revolution and the Enlightenment to lead the liberation of much of South America from Spain.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
400
This political and philosophical movement called for community ownership of property brought about by a violent workers’ revolution.
What is communism?
400
This event in China occurred that led to the European nations finally agreeing to the Open Door Policy.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
400
This is why Napoleon was able to gain power in France.
What is the weakness and instability of the French government?
500
South Korea's government is divided into 3 branches. South Korea's government reflects this enlightenment idea.
What is the separation of powers?
500
Read this excerpt from a speech given by Maximilien Robespierre to the Convention on February 5, 1794. “Subdue liberty’s enemies by terror, and you will be right, as founders of the Republic. The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.... And is it not to strike the heads of the proud that lightning is destined?” ; - The purpose of the statement by Robespierre.
What is to justify the execution of perceived enemies of the revolution?
500
The Industrial Revolution began in 1)_______________________ with a growth of the 2)__________________ industry.
What is 1) England and 2) Textile?
500
The establishment of 1) this government in India and the establishment of 2)this language as the official language of Brazil indicates that European colonizers influenced the culture of regions under their control.
What is 1) parliamentary democracy and 2) Portuguese?
500
“The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day. Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals. the whole town seemed to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The steam engines shone with it the mills throughout their many stories oozed and trickled it.” -Charles Dickens, Hard Times 1854 ; - In the quote, this is the historical era that is most likely being referred to.
What is the Industrial Revolution?