The Age of Absolutism
What is the term for a king with total control over his nation?
What is an absolute monarch?
What was the Enlightenment also known as?
What is the Age of Reason?
What was the goal of the French Revolution?
What is to overthrow the king and gain rights?
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
What is Great Britain?
Who unified Italy in the 1800s?
Who are Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, or Count Camillo di Cavour?
What idea says kings receive their power from God?
What is Divine Right?
Which philosopher believed in natural rights like life, liberty, and property?
Who is John Locke?
What document gave equal rights and fair taxes during the French Revolution?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
What economic system favors little government interference?
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
What major empire broke up due to nationalist movements?
What is Austria-Hungary or the Ottoman Empire?
Name one absolute monarch who expanded his nation’s territory.
Who is Peter the Great, Louis XIV, or Suleiman the Magnificent?
Who supported dividing government power into three branches?
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
Who was the radical leader of the Reign of Terror?
Who is Robespierre?
Who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
What event describes Europe’s race to colonize Africa?
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Which Russian czar westernized his country to strengthen it?
Who is Peter the Great?
What Enlightenment thinker believed in freedom of speech and religion?
Who is Voltaire?
Who unified German lands using the "blood and iron" policy?
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
What process involves workers uniting to improve conditions?
What are labor unions?
What was the Meiji Restoration?
What is Japan’s period of modernization and westernization?
Which monarch ruled France as an absolute ruler and built the Palace of Versailles?
Who is Louis XIV?
What agreement said people must work together for the common good?
What is Rousseau’s social contract?
Name one leader of the Latin American independence movements.
Who is Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, Miguel Hidalgo, or Toussaint L’Ouverture?
What term describes the shift from hand-made goods to machine-made goods?
What is industrialization?
What rebellion tried (but failed) to give India independence from Britain?
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?