World in 1750
In Japanese feudal society, this military leader held the real power while the emperor remained the symbolic ruler.
Who is the Shogun?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that all people possess natural rights including life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke?
This document granted equal rights to French men and established a fairer system of taxation during the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Historical circumstances of the Haitian Revolution.
What were Enlightenment ideas and slavery in the French colony of Haiti?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution due to its coal, iron ore, capital, growing population, and favorable geography.
What is Great Britain?
This French king, known as the "Sun King," built the lavish Palace of Versailles and ruled as an absolute monarch.
Who is Louis XIV?
This philosopher believed government power should be divided into three branches through a system of checks and balances.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This radical period of the French Revolution saw thousands executed by guillotine under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins.
What was the Reign of Terror?
Historical circumstances of the Latin American Revolutions.
What was the Enlightenment and inequality of Peninsulars and Creoles and other social classes in Latin America?
This economic system, supported by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, is based on private ownership and limited government involvement in business.
What is capitalism?
This Russian tzar modernized and westernized his country, transforming it into a major European power.
Who is Peter the Great?
What was the period of challenging traditional forms of authority, both government and Church, and using reason instead of just tradition or superstition?
This military leader rose to power after the French Revolution and spread French control across much of Europe.
Who was Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte?
Nationalism.
What is pride in one's people and country OR when people share traditions, religion, language, common history and/or ethnic background and want to have their own nation-state?
This long-term effect of industrialization involved powerful nations seeking colonies for raw materials and markets around the world.
What is imperialism?
This elite military force served the Ottoman Empire and was made up of highly trained soldiers loyal to the sultan.
Who were the Janissaries?
This English writer helped promote women's rights by authoring A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
The Estates General/System.
What was French society being divided into 3 Estates- 1st Clergy, 2nd Nobles, 3rd Commoners/everyone else, where the 3rd Estates paid all the taxes. The King (Louis 16) was at the top and had absolute power.
German and Italian Unification.
What was when Italians and German united over nationalism?
According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this social class should unite and overthrow the bourgeoisie in a violent revolution AND the name of the ideology aimed at eliminating all classes and ending private ownership.
What is the proletariat AND communism?
This is how Louis XIV centralized absolute power over his nobles.
What is having his nobles live in Versailles under his supervision?
What revolutions did the the Enlightenment inspire? (at least 3)
This meeting of European leaders sought to restore order, reestablish boundaries, and maintain peace after Napoleon's defeat.
What was the Congress of Vienna? (Concert of Europe/Balance of Power)
Otto von Bismark.
Effects of industrialization (at least 3).
What is the imperialism, population growth, poor living conditions, wealth inequality, better quality of life, more and cheaper goods, pollution, etc.?