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Who is Isaac Newton?
He formulated a universal law of gravity that embraced heaven and earth in one grand system.
100
this type of "tax" was an obligation to work on roads
What is a corvee
100
These people were volunteers in Garibaldi's army
Who were the Red Shirts?
100
This reforming czar emancipated the serfs.
Who is Alexander II?
100
this secret German message to Mexico was one factor that propelled the U.S. into WWI
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
He believed in the idea of tabula rasa
Who is John Locket?
200
This document embodied the liberal revolutionary ideals and principles of the philosophes writings
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
200
This treaty ceded Alsace and Lorraine to Germany
What is the Treaty of Frankfurt?
200
This leader is considered the architect of conservative policy in the 17th century
What is Metternich?
300
these mainly French social critics subjected human behavior and social institutions to the critical test of reason
Who were the philosophes?
300
The list of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates General
What were the cahier de doleances?
300
This uprising convinced Catherine the Great that the serfs could never be freed
What is the Pugachev uprising?
300
The name for depopulated areas in England that nevertheless sent representatives to Parliament
What are rotten boroughs?
400
This inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving at truth
Who is Francis Bacon?
400
The date liberal noblemen of the National Assembly agreed tot abolish the feudal regime in France?
What is the night of August 4, 1789?
400
This edited dispatch by Bismarck to the French ambassador started the Franco Prussian War
What is the Ems Dispatch?
400
This Russian minister under Nicholas II encouraged the growth of private farmers and improved education
Who was Peter Stolypin?
400
This man proposed the idea of the greatest good for the greatest number
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
500
The belief that God created the universe and set it in motion like a clock
What is Deism?
500
The law that fixed prices on bread and other essentials under Robespierre's rule
What is the law of the maximum?
500
This bill passed by the German Reichstag legitimized Bismarck's unconstitutional collection of taxes to modernize the army
What is the Indemnity bill?
500
This is the name given to independent wealth Russian farmers
Who are the kulaks?
500
This treaty forbid the union of France with Spain and gave control of Gibraltar to England
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?