World History (A) Review

Fourteen European nations met at the Berlin Conference to lay down rules for the division of Central America.

The period of time when Robespierre governed France was called

The Muslim religious community you join when pledging loyality to Muhammad.

A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.

The Haitian Revolution was started by working class white men who wanted freedom from France.

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America.

This was a transatlantic trading network that transported goods and slaves.

Who argued that women, like men, need education to become virtuous and useful.

King that brutally exploited Africans by forcing them to collect sap from rubber plants.

The Estates General was an assembly of representatives from all three estates, in France.

Conquistadors were

Gave the country a uniform set of laws and eliminated many injustices, but limited liberties.

Groups that worked for reform and better working conditions for labor groups?

A system where the Spanish forced Native Americans to work the land.

A social theory were Europeans believed that they were better than other peoples.

This refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s.

Who believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves?

Who believed that all humans were naturally selfish and wicked.

This occurred throughout most of Africa, when stronger countries dominated the weaker countries.

The Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking about the natural world, based upon observation of church beliefs.

Helped bring about the Industrial Revolution.

His freedom of religious belief and freedom of speech ideas inspired the US Bill of Rights.

This theory claims that the sun is the center of solar system.

Enlightment was intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.

Which document stated that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”

Led enslaved Africans in a revolt against the French that ended slavery and resulted in the new nation of Haiti.

Laissez faire refers to lettingowners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.

Movement of people to the city is called urbanization.

Introduced corn and potatoes to the Americas, as well as smallpox and measles, that killed millions of Native Americans.

New legislative body in France, that created a limited constitutional monarchy.