Renaissance, Exploration, and Colonization
This invention by Johann Gutenberg helped spread new ideas across Europe.
What is the printing press?
This phrase is another name for the Enlightenment.
What is the Age of Reason?
This fortress prison was stormed in 1789.
What is the Bastille?
This term describes the movement of people from farms to cities.
What is urbanization?
This title was taken by the emperor of a unified Germany.
What is Kaiser?
These were the main reasons that Europeans began exploring beyond Europe?
What is to spread Christianity, gain wealth, gain resources, trade and expand power
This thinker believed people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This pledge by the Third Estate promised to write a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This invention dramatically increased cotton production and expanded slavery in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
This policy used tough political decisions to unify Germany. (logic based politics)
What is Realpolitik?
This system forced Native Americans to work for Spanish landowners.
What is the encomienda system?
This agreement said people give up some freedoms for an organized society.
What is the social contract?
This period of mass executions was led by Robespierre.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This philosophy supported the greatest good for the greatest number.
What is utilitarianism?
This multiethnic empire in Eastern Europe was weakened by constant nationalist uprisings.
What is the Hapsburg Empire?
This disease killed millions of Native Americans after European contact.
What is smallpox?
This idea said governments exist to protect people’s rights and can be overthrown if they fail.
What are social contract?
This legal code unified French law under Napoleon.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This worker organization formed to improve wages and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
This policy forced Russian culture and language on minorities.
What is Russification?
This ruler of the Congo spoke out against the African slave trade to Europeans.
Who is Affonso I?
This writer argued that women deserved equal rights and education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This radical political group helped push the Revolution toward violence and the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Jacobins?
This thinker criticized capitalism and promoted communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This nickname described the declining Ottoman Empire.
What is the Sick Man of Europe?