Leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland and believer in predestination.
Who was John Calvin?
100
His inventions included the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who was Eli Whitney?
100
The acquiring of weaker lands (countries) by stronger countries to expand their wealth and power.
What is imperialism?
200
First manufacturing process to experience the Industrial Revolution.
What was the textile industry?
200
To restore monarchies and old political systems in Europe after the fall of Napoleon.
What was the Congress of Vienna in 1814?
200
Leader of Parliament and led the Roundheads against Charles I during the English Civil War.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
200
French thinker who was influential in government regarding the separation of powers.
Who was Montesquieu?
200
A new method of producing manufactured goods using machines and factories that began in Great Britain beginning about 1750?
What was the Industrial Revolution?
300
This European family dominated the Holy Roman Empire.
Who was the Hapsburg family?
300
Name of the political system of France before 1789.
What was the ancien regime?
300
The brutal program initiated by the French National Convention's Committee of Public Safety to silence critics of the republic.
What was the Reign of Terror?
300
He is associated with the scientific method.
Who was Francis Bacon?
300
A rebirth of learning and interest in the classics of Greece and Rome beginning in the 1300s. Features include
What was the Renaissance?
400
The Sepoy Rebellion took place here.
What is India?
400
The first country to experience the Industrial Revolution.
Where is Great Britain?
400
This bloodless revolution led to the dethroning of James II and the installation of William and Mary as English monarchs.
What was the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
400
Became the king of England after Oliver Cromwell;s Commonwealth was dissolved.
Who was Charles II?
400
The breaking up of the Catholic Church by men who questioned its authority and doctrines - Martin Luther, John Calvin, etc.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
500
These working class men and women were important in the more radical actions of the French Revolution.
Who were the sans-culottes?
500
This British reform got rid of many rotten boroughs and lowered the amount of property needed for business people and merchants to vote.
What was the Reform Act of 1832?
500
An intellectual movements of the late 1600s and early 1700s that contributed to new ideas about government and personal freedoms.
What was the Enlightenment?
500
His invention of the printing press led to the spread of Renaissance ideas throughout Western and Northern Europe.
Who was Johann Gutenberg?
500
The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy and the alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia made for a dangerous world in Europe prior to 1914.
What was the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?