The Polycentric World
Regions that provide the "core" with raw materials and low-cost labor, often leading to economic dependence.
What is a periphery?
This French leader had Main Character Energy until his crash out in Belgium in 1815.
Who was Napoleon?
The first truly global, transoceanic empire.
What is the British Empire?
The ideology of the French Revolution.
What is liberalism?
The institution whose function is to maintain order.
What is the state?
The rise of a global "core."
What is the Modern World-System?
This Liberator had the ultimate glow up, from backpacking around Europe and learning about the Enlightenment, to the man who freed Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador from Spanish clout.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Any Islamic empire controlling Mecca.
What is the caliphate?
Edmund Burke's critique.
What is conservatism?
This is an ideology without religion.
What is secular?
The structures maintaining ancien regime economies.
What were guilds?
Britain had zero chill when China tried to gatekeep its borders from drugs.
What were the Opium Wars?
The unusual zone of enslaved labor in the Antilles.
What was the "peculiar periphery"?
The radical critique of industrial society.
What is socialism?
This society is dominant.
What is a hegemon?
The governing "ideology" of the Modern World-System.
What is capitalism?
This empire took the L when Britain invaded Egypt in the 1880s.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
Defensive modernization in Southwest Asia.
What were the Tanzimat Reforms?
The glue for a secular society in the modern era.
What is nationalism?
The revolutionary middle classes of the Enlightenment.
Who were the bourgeoisie?
Key primary sector production of the ancien regime.
What was agriculture?
The Scottish rizzler who wrote the manifesto for better paper airplanes.
Who was Adam Smith?
Ottoman slave-soldiers.
Who were the Janissaries?
The ideology of feudal China.
What is Confucianism?
The chamber for the ancien regime nobles.
What was the second estate?