Who was the French philosopher who coined the famous maxim, I think therefore I am? Cogito ergo Sum.
Rene Descartes
100
The economist and philosopher who argued that the Industrial Europe in Great Britain polarised and divided society into two classes namely - the workers and the capitalists.
Karl Marx
100
Who is the first president of the United States of America? He was at the same time the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
George Washington
100
What was the means of execution during the period in France known as the reign of terror?
Guillotine
100
Who was the Prussian chancellor who engineered a series of wars in Europe in pursuit of unifying the German-speaking states.
Otto von Bismarck
200
What was the pseudonym of the French enlightenment thinker Francois Marie Arouet?
Voltaire
200
The economist who believed that the Industrial Revolution introduced specialisation of work and mass production thus making the economy more efficient. He authored The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
200
What is the political protest against the Tea Act that was done in Boston on December 16, 1773?
Boston Tea Party
200
For centuries, France was socially stratified into three estates. Who belonged to the Second Estate?
Clergy
200
When the Unification of Germany was declared, who became the Kaiser or the Emperor of the German Reich in 1871?
WILHELM I
300
The English political philosopher known for his work Leviathan. He argued that "Man is born greedy."
Thomas Hobbes
300
The term Marx used to refer to the class who owned the means of production (land, labor, capital) during the Industrial Revolution.
Bourgeois(ie)
300
Who was the principal author of the United States' declaration of independence?
Thomas Jefferson
300
Who was the French Revolutionary who sought to establish a republic of virtue? He eventually became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety.
Maximilien Robespierre
300
What was the war that was fought between Germany and France in 1871? This preceded the eventual unification of Germany.
Franco-Prussian War
400
The monarchical form of government in which the monarch has unrestricted political power among his or her people
Absolute Monarchy or Absolutism
400
The term Marx used to refer to the workers.
Proletariat
400
When did the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from the British Empire?
July 4, 1776
400
Who was the wife of King Louis XVI who was also executed via the guillotine?
Marie Antoinette
400
What is the loose association of 39 German states which was constituted by the Congress of Vienna in 1815?
German Confederation
500
It argues that individuals have consented to surrender their freedom and submit to the authority of the ruler or magistrate in exchange for protection of their rights.
Social Contract Theory
500
The series of acts that were passed by the British Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in Britain, thus leading to people moving into the Urban areas.
Enclosure Acts
500
This term refers to the series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament; laws that were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
Intolerable Acts
500
What was the revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate which signalled the beginning of the French Revolution?
National Assembly
500
What is the unification proposal that sought to exclude the Austrian Empire from the unified Germany? This was heavily favoured and promoted by Prussia.