Government
A concept that government and religion should be separate.
What is secularism?
The central idea of the Renaissance, that human life is valuable and full of possibility.
What is humanism?
The industrial revolution began in this country due to its geography and natural resources.
What is Great Britain?
During the Renaissance, a patron would pay to produce this.
What is art?
Enlightenment thinker who was imprisoned and later exiled from France due to his satirical works.
Who is Voltaire?
Miguel Hidalgo initiated an independence movement here.
What is Mexico?
Movement during the 1700s which aimed to use reason to improve government and society.
What is the Enlightenment?
An Enlightened form of execution from the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
This geometric trade network connected colonial Europe to slave-trading West African Kingdoms to the American colonies.
What is Triangle Trade?
The Enlightenment thinker most associated with the idea of "Natural Rights."
Who is John Locke?
The rigged voting system of the Estates General led the Third Estate's representatives to walk out, forming this parallel government.
What is the National Assembly?
"Survival of the Fittest" as applied to human society.
What is Social Darwinism?
The primary technology which, after the 1300s, enabled the spread of both scientific ideas and Protestant teachings.
What is the Printing Press?
The residence and surrounding village of a noble lord.
What is a manor?
The region of the Americas in which Columbus first landed in the 1490s.
What is the Caribbean / Bahamas?
This French king fled Paris in 1791 rather than sign a constitution.
Who was Louis XVI?
The first estate in France's Ancien Regime was comprised of this group.
Who were the Catholic Clergy?
Napoleon Bonaparte made genius use of this technology on the battlefield.
What is artillery?
This artistic and literary movement translates literally as "rebirth" and was prompted by the wealth brought in to Europe via trade.
What is the Renaissance?
Monarch of the British Empire during its industrial Golden Age from 1819-1901.
Who was Queen Victoria?
Type of government in which no monarch exists and a head of state is instead elected.
What is a republic?
The Calvinist belief that human souls are naturally bound for Heaven or Hell before long before our deaths.
What is predestination?
Outside of Europe, this empire most successfully industrialized.
What is Japan?
The economic system which established and maintained trade routes between European mother countries and their colonies using a country's navy to protect its merchant ships.
What is mercantilism?
The Glorious Revolution led to this pair being England's new monarchs.
Who were William & Mary?