Historic Celebrities
Leader of the Haitian Revoliton
Pierre T'Oussaint L'Ouverturee
What nation industrialized first?
Great Britain
the warrior class is Japan are/were called...
samurai
What country did King Leopold II of Belgium colonize?
Which Revolution sparked revolutions across the Atlantic beginning in 1775?
American Revolution
Wrote the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
What industry accounted for as much as 40% of Britain's exports by 1830?
Cotton
Series of Wars that led to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty.
Opium Wars
Name 1 of 2 nations that colonized South Africa.
Netherlands (Dutch) or Britain
Name the social group that 97% of French population belonged to prior to the French Revolution.
3rd Estate
Wrote the 'Theory of Evolution' and the 'Theory of Natural Selection'
Charles Darwin
Which economic system argues that the state should own all property and means of production (rather than individuals)?
Socialism
Name the peace treaty that ended the 1st Opium War. China was required to pay Britian for their losses!
Treaty of Nanjing
Belief in "survival of the fittest" - the idea that certain people become more powerful in society because they are innately better
social darwinism
the movement to end slavery is called... (one word)
abolition
Who led the national revolutions in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador?
Simon Bolivar
Britain went through a process of ______ after the introduction of new farming techniques in the 1700's replaced the jobs of many farmers.
Urbanization
Name the governing body of Japan before the Meiji Restoration...
Tokugawa Shogunate
Held in 1884-5 between European nations to discuss the fate of colonies in Africa.
Berlin Conference
Name the treaty that officially established Mexico's independence from Spain.
Treaty of Cordoba
Wrote the 'White Man's Burden' and 'The Jungle Book'.
Rudyard Kipling
translates to "leave us alone" - the government should remain out of the economy - a major principle in the ideas of capitalism
laissez-faire
Hong Kong is an example of a British __ __ ___ in China.
Sphere of Influence
this waterway connects the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Suez Canal
Name of the Battle that ends the Napoleonic Wars...
Waterloo