WOLRD HISTORY FINAL

Question 1

What is absolutism

Answer 1

a political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country and people.

Question 2

what is nationalism and nation states

Answer 2

The old feudal times gave way and strong independant nation states with centralized government started.

Question 3

what is divine right

Answer 3

The concept that their authority to rule came directly from God.

Question 4

what was the ageof enlightenment

Answer 4

An age where peope develped new ideas about government and basic human rights. While scientists and mathematicians developed laws about natural phenomena like the law of gravity. People use human reasoning tp find out stuff.

Question 5

what is secularism

Answer 5

he principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.

Question 6

what is globalization

Answer 6

he process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 7

what is mercantilism

Answer 7

based on the idea that a nation’s wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and limiting imports.

Question 8

what was the scientific revolutoion

Answer 8

The scientific revolution, which emphasized systematic experimentation as the most valid research method, resulted in developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry. These developments transformed the views of society about nature.

Question 9

hapsburg empire short history

Answer 9

IT was ruled by charles the first who later changed to charles the fifth. The hapsburg empire included german stated of the holy roman epmire and the dutch netherlands. But the hapsburg empire was too scattered for him to rule so he divided it. Leaving hapsburg in central europe to his bro ferdianad.

Question 10

Philip the 2 and spanish armada

Answer 10

Phillip the second was the king of spain. His biggest opp was queen elizabeth the first. She encouraged english captians known as sea dogs to raid spanish ships. PHillip got mad and made a armade which is a spanish fleet and they spun the block on the opps but got destroyed.

Question 11

louis the 14 centralizes power.

Answer 11

HE spent many hours attending to gov affairs. He followed Richelieu. He expanded bureaucracy and appointed intendants, royal officials who collected taxes recruited soldiers and carried out his policies in the provinces. UNder him the french army became the strongest in europe. They had 300,000 soldiers he used them to enforce policies at home and abroad.

Question 12

legacy of louis the 14

Answer 12

He ruled france for 72 years far longer than any other monarch. During that time france set the stanard for manners and customs in europe. HE made france the strongest state in europe in foreign and domestic affairs.

Question 13

medieval thought vs the enlightenment thoguht 1

Answer 13

authroity of church and traditions. Secularism and realism.

Question 14

medievel vs enlightenment 2

Answer 14

feudalism, and individual rights

Question 15

medieval vs enlightment 3

Answer 15

superstition vs science

Question 16

medieval enlightenment 4

Answer 16

divine right and liberalism and republicanism

Question 17

medeiaval vs enlightenment 5

Answer 17

focus on the afterlife vs focus on earthly happiness

Question 18

what are natural laws

Answer 18

we can use reason to understand the world

Question 19

what were salons

Answer 19

place to spread and talk about enlightenment ideas

Question 20

who were some enlightenment thinkers

Answer 20

john locke, montesquie, voltair, rosseu,wallstonecraft

Question 21

what did john lock believe in

Answer 21

your natural rights-rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are “life, liberty, and property.

Question 22

what did montesquie believe in

Answer 22

the separation of power- Judicial, legislative, and executive branches

Question 23

what did roussea believe in

Answer 23

republicanism and the general will of people. The need of the community should be over your own individual interest basically

Question 24

what did wollstonecraft believe in

Answer 24

social and educational equality for women

Question 25

what were the estates general

Answer 25

the clergy, nobility and the middle class to peasentry.

Question 26

what were some widespread discontent in the french revolution

Answer 26

famine, poverty, and crumbling economy

Question 27

King louis the 16

Answer 27

he was a good king but weak and indecisive. Jacques necker a financial expert was his advisor but when he said too tax the first and sedcond houses they nobles and clergy wanted him out. after france was about to go bankrupt king called the estates general for a meeting at versallies.

Question 28

what was the tennis court of oath

Answer 28

While King Louis, not amused, locked them out of their meeting hall, they gathered on a tennis court meant for use by the Versailles Palace and took the aptly named Tennis Court Oath: that they would not stop meeting until France had a constitution.

Question 29

what was the estates general meeting

Answer 29

The Estates-General of 1789 was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. Summoned by King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to deal with financial and societal crises, it ended with the Third Estate breaking from royal authority and forming a National Assembly

Question 30

what was the national assembly

Answer 30

a revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General and eventually joined by some members of the ...

Question 31

what was the storming of bastille

Answer 31

fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. if also marked the beginning of the french revolution.

Question 32

what was the declaration of rights of man?

Answer 32

A declaration that said "all men were born and remain free and euqal in rights. They enjoyed natural right to liberty proberty security and resistance to oppression. It said like lockes writings the gov existed to preotect the natural rights of the citizens.

Question 33

what was the womens march on versallies

Answer 33

six thousand women marched 13 miles to versallies because queen marie antoinnete being luxourius. THey wanted the king to return to paris, which he did.

Question 34

what were some things that happened in the french revolution

Answer 34

abolished monarchy, curtailed the power of the french roman catholic church, abolished the feudal system, created equality before the law, gave talented people more acess to jobs, created a sense of national pride, and last created popular soverighnty.

Question 35

FEAR OF THE FENCH PLAGUE WAHT WAS IT

Answer 35

European rulers were horrified of the French revolution. They even increased border patrol to keep it from spreading. And stories about it from emigres didn't help either. Catherine the greatof Russia burned voltaires letters and locked up critics while edmund burke a sritish statesman comdemced the revolutionaires in paris.

Question 36

National convention and abosishion of mionarchy

Answer 36

he National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy (August 10, 1792). The Convention numbered 749 deputies, including businessmen, tradesmen, and many professional men. eveyone was called citizens. THey seized nobles lands and abolished titles of nobility

Question 37

what was the committe of public safety

Answer 37

to deal with the threats to france the convection created the committe of public safety. 12 seats had almost absolute power. Prepared france for all out war they encourged people to fight. Even tho ill trained they were patriotic.

Question 38

who was robspierre

Answer 38

At home the gov battled counterrevolutianareis under the hand of maxamilien robespierre. HE was a shrew lawyer and polotician who rose to leadership of the public safety committe. His nickname was "the incorruptable"

Question 39

what was the directory

Answer 39

he Directory, a five-member committee that governed France from November 1795 to November 1799, failed to reform the disastrous economy, relied heavily on army and violence, and represented another turn towards dictatorship during the French Revolution.

Question 40

what was French nationalism?

Answer 40

nationalism is when you have a strong feeling of proud and devotion to your country. The revolution and war gave people a sense of strong national identity.

Question 41

describe the age of napoleon.

Answer 41

he had great military success. He declared himslef emperor of france. He made a lof of reforms to like: Public schools literacy, police state, absolutism, religious tolerance, equality before the law, and end of serfdom.

Question 41

Describe napoleons code

Answer 41

iT WAs a set of laws that napolean made. It followed stuff like end of feudalism, equality to all citizens before the law, and religous tolerane. But women lost most of their rights. It was a mans world again, men gained complete authority.

Question 42

what was the continental system

Answer 42

It was a system napolean used to go to economic war with great britain. But it failed because of britians navy. They close ports to goods from each other.

Question 43

legacy of napolean

Answer 43

Napolean died in 1821.BUt he had a lasting imipact. Was he the "revollution on horseback" as he claimed? The napoleanic code changed many things and also he sold Louisiana territory to America. He failed to make a french empire and instead sparked nationalist feelings ACROSS europe.

Question 44

what was the congress of vienna

Answer 44

The Congress had four major objectives: to establish a balance of power, to encourage conservative regimes, to contain France, and to learn to work together for peace. The major players - Russia, Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and France - also had their own agendas. after the napoleonic wars.

Question 45

What was the concert of eruope

Answer 45

The Concert of Europe. From 1815 to 1914, the Concert of Europe established a set of principles, rules and practices that helped to maintain balance between the major powers after the Napoleonic Wars, and to spare Europe from another broad conflict.

Question 46

who were the liberals what is liberalism.

Answer 46

mostly middle class of educated busuiness people and proffesionals. People who were open minded to change

Question 47

who were the conservatives what is conservatism.

Answer 47

royalty nobility church leaders and uneducated peasants. People who like the traditional valiues and dont want to change.

Question 48

what were the goals of liberalism

Answer 48

Gov based on writtten constuittion Separation of powers natural rights republican form of gov laisszefure economics revolution if necessary to achieve goals

Question 49

what were conservative goals

Answer 49

royal familis on throne traditional social hierchy authority of established churches respect and obediense to authority stability and order suppression of revolutions

Question 50

what was the italy german rebelion

Answer 50

Revolutions of 1848, series of republican revolts against European monarchies, beginning in Sicily and spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire. They all ended in failure and repression and were followed by widespread disillusionment among liberals.

Question 51

france 1848 rebellion

Answer 51

The Revolution of 1848, or February Revolution, ended the Orléanist rule and brought in the period of the Second Republic. During this time, many countries in Europe were undergoing revolutions that sought to topple conservative monarchies with liberal democracies.