World History Final guide

French Revolution started because parliament passed laws to limit royal power

the Taiping rebellion was poor peasants/workers against the government and foreigners' special privileges

Robenspierre governed France as dictator. This period ended when Comittee of Public Safety executed him

Created after defeat of Napoleon and achieved 40 years of peace

The French Constitution was drafted by the Assembly and helped influence the start of the French Revolution

The Enlightenment was the transition to new manufacturing processes (like factories) in Europe & US

Who wrote the book Leviathan and is known for the social contract theory?

Who criticized the established Catholic Church during the Enlightenment?

Factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all

what war did Nicholas II take part in that broke an important treaty and the peoples' trust in him?

invented the microscope

Tripple Entente

Theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience

Things, ideas, and institutions should be judged based on their usefulness

Which is NOT a factor of production?

Bloodless revolution that replaced King James II with Mary and William of Orange

Strong loyalty to the ruler not the people

Peonage is debt that was passed through generations of workers

Renaissance - new way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observations + questioning beliefs

Major European conflict after the death of Charles II in which France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire fought

What forbade monarchs from imprisoning people with no cause, and allowed a trial for prisoners

Declared the US an international police and justified its intervention in Latin America

Peasants attacked castles of their lords, and nobles were afraid of the people

March of Versaille was led by women rebels and went directly to the Palace of Versaille

Who started the revolution in Mexico?

German princes were allowed to choose the religion for their territory

Simón Bolívar

Movement that reflected deep interest in both nature. & thoughts/feelings of the individual

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended WWII battles between Russia and Germany

The National Assembly was formed because the 3rd estate couldn’t change anything in the Estates General

Mulattos had mixed European and African parents

President Wilson's plan that had no secret treaties, free trade, the League of nations, + adjusted borders & colonies

Who led the revolution in Haiti

Workers protested outside the Winter Palace for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and a parliament

Tripple Alliance

War of Austrian succession started because Maria Theresa couldn’t succeed to the lands of Emperor Charles VI

Which treaty ended the war of Spanish Succession

Which King made nobles totally dependent on him and gave power to intendants?

Why did the US enter the Great War

US and Europe took Latin American businesses as payment for debts that couldn't be payed off

Absolute monarchs believed that god created the monarchy to act as His representative on Earth

Period of flourishing art and literature in Spain during the rise of the Habsburg dynasty

German Protestant princes challenged the Catholic Emperor in this war

Who led the Argentinian and Chile revolution

Radical group of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for a change (Russian Revolution)

Letting owners of an industry or business set working conditions without government interference

The Estates General was formed to make a new constitution for France

Father of Liberalism

France lost its North American colonies to Britain

Which event marked the start of the French Revolution?

First Tzar of Russia, instituted a reign of terror against hereditary nobility

Who declared independence in Venezuela?

What did the Old Order organize France into?

The Opium War was fought when the British refused to stop selling Opium in China

Prussia’s realpolitik who ruled without consent of parliament and sought to unite Germany

Leader of the Jacobins who wanted to kill the king and his supporters

the seven weeks war was a war between Austria and Prussia that gave Prussia control of Northern Germany

Napoleon Bonaparte was emperor in France

Factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit

Creoles

Commander who led Turkish nationalists in fighting the Greeks/British and overthrowing the last Ottoman Sultan

Invented analytical geometry

What was included in the Petition of Right

Mestizos had mixed European and African parents

Complete socialism and production of everything is ruled by the people

Dowager Empress Cixi updated the educational system, diplomatic service and military

Who invented the improved the steam engine?

which is NOT a main cause of WWI

Who concluded math laws govern planetary motion & planets had elliptical orbits?

What did Cardinal Richelieu do while he was appointed by Louis XII?

Mercantilism