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Flashcards by Jonathan Bugeya Miller, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jonathan Bugeya Miller
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| Question | Answer |
| What was the treaty of Westphalia? | -A treaty signed after 30 years war -Split the Roman Empire into many states -Enabled states to monitor what religions are allowed in such state -Sig: because state is now over religion not the other way |
| What is aristocracy? | -The power to the most excellent and influential people -These people would be the ones with wealth |
| What is feudalism? | -A dominant system that has a hierarchy of power -Exg: the estates system |
| What was patronage like in the Renaissance period? | -Royalty and the church commissioned artists to make art -This is how they lived because they were payed for their work |
| What was the Spanish Inquisition? | A moment when Spain wanted to unify under the Catholic religion |
| What was the counter-reformation? | -A gathering of the Catholic church in response to the protestant reformation -They addressed the Catholic doctrines that Protestants opposed (wasn't going to change them) -They also addressed the abuses within the Catholic church (made series of reforms, ie buying church offices, spoke out against abuse of indulgences) -Took action against heresy Created Jesuit order (Taking care of education and rooting out heresy) |
| What was the Glorious Revolution? | -Basically, England in 1685 had Jame II wanting to create England back into a Roman Catholic Monarch state - William and Mary of Orange then asked their troops to invade England -Successful raid because not a single shot was fire and James II fled -William and Mary then formed England into a constitutional monarch -Sig: Shows the weakening power of the Roman Catholic church and Absolute Monarchies in England |
| What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? | A treaty that drew the boarders of which Spanish and Portuguese continents to control. -Was created for trade -Spanish received the West (Past Brazil) -Portuguese Received the east (Gaining Brazil) |
| What was the Napoleonic Code? | A series of political reforms created by Napoleon during his reign over France. -His reforms include: freedom of religion, abolition of inheritance to power, and equality before the law for all men |
| What was the storming of Bastille? | A crowd stormed the Paris state prison on July 14 1789, (Bastille was a symbol of state oppression)… power was in the streets now. Weapons were needed from prison in turn to defend themselves from the great terror. |
| What was the reign of terror? | A mass 5 year execution worth of over 40000 people guillotined because they were presumed to be against the French Revolution. |
| What was the Declaration of Rights of man and citizen? | -Drafted on August 26, 1789 -The product of the first constitutional debates in the French National assembly. -People were given liberty, property and security. |
| What was the march of women about? | A rumor was going around that the Royal family in Versailles held food, food was scarce at the time. As a result, over 7000 desperate women stormed Versailles to demand food. They were armed and almost killed the Royal Family. Sig: Because shows how the corrupt Estates System affected the 3rd estate due to them only receiving taxes. |
| What does modernization theory say about developing nations? | Europe was changing into a capitalized system and those who stayed traditional were affected and remained developing. |
| What does dependency theory say about developing nations? | The developing countries relied on the developed since they provided labour. The labour was cheap and allowed the developed to grow, this trapped the undeveloped. |
| When considering the Napoleonic era, what is Elba significant for? | The exile of Napoleon occurred after the 1812 Russian campaign and he was Exiled to the Island Elba. This being the omen to his last failure at the Battle of Waterloo. He later ran away and went to war against Prussia and Great Britain (Battle of Waterloo). |
| What is the Battle of Waterloo? | A battle during the Napoleonic area that symbolizes the defeat of Napoleon since France lost the battle. As a result, Napoleon was exiled again but this time to St. Helena's to later die here. |
| Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau? | A Swedish political philosopher who understood that individuals who live in a society must give up some of their natural rights for the state. Civil liberty against individual liberty. |
| Who was Adam Smith? | A Scot Economist who wrote the book The Wealth of Nations. This book strategized that individuals should work in what they specialize in for the company to prosper the most. He called this absolute advantage. |
| What is Mercantilism? | An economic ideology that supports the country to control foreign trade. The purpose of this is because the country wants to prosper their own economy by exporting more than they import. |
| Who was Voltaire? | Famous French writer, who wrote against the Catholic church since they rule with authority over France. He also expressed liberal ideas such as: freedom of speech, rejection of bigotry and superstition, belief and reason, and tolerance. |
| What was the factory act of 1833? | -Prohibited children under the age of 9 to work -Limited work hours for 9 - 18 year olds -Significant because it shows the unsafe work conditions for the young children. |
| What was the Holy Alliance? | -A creation by Alexander I -Believed that nations should let God guide their relations with people and the state -Each nation, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, helped one another to ensure peace at all times |
| What was the Franco-Prussian war? | -War between France and Prussia from 1870-71 -Dispute was about the inheritance of Spain's throne -Miscommunication in the media by France made it seem that Prussia declared war when they didn't -Prussia won with Bismarck's innovative tactics and new weaponry -Ended with Treaty of Frankfurt -Wilhelm I was declared emperor in the Hall of Mirror in Versailles |
| What is imperialism? | Acquiring colonies & extending countries influence through trade, diplomacy & other means. |
| What was the Berlin Conference? | -Happened in 1884-1885 -Bismarck called 15 nations together to discuss splitting African land. -Significant because conference caused the terrible conditions African citizens had to suffer through. Such as lack of salary. |
| What is the Multiplier effect? | -Refers to the cycle of consumer demand -Increased consumer demand prompts investors to invest in new machines |
| What is realpolitik? | In diplomacy it is often associated with relentless, though realistic, pursuit of the national interest. |
| Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture? | He was the leader of the Haitian Independence movement. Led a group of slave guerrillas against the Haiti Spanish plantation owners. |
| What was the Monroe Doctrine? | A doctrine created by President Jame Monroe to keep European countries out of the Western hemisphere. -No one challenged his because the British supported the idea and the Brits ruled he seas |
| What was the kulturkampf? | It was Bismarck's attempt to reduce catholic influence in Prussia |
| What is fabianism? | Its purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. |
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