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What is laissez faire?
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Allowance by the government to let businesses operate with little or no interferance - the legalization of "free commerce/trade".
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Who was Adam Smith?
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An admirer of the physiocrats, and an advocate of laissez faire.
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What are one's "natural rights", according to John Locke?
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Life; Liberty; Property.
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Name the six philosophes.
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(1) Hobbes, (2) Locke, (3) Montesquieu, (4) Voltaire, (5) Diderot, (6) Rousseau
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Name an enlightened despot and where they came from.
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Frederick the Great (Prussia); Catherine the Great (Russia); Joseph II (Austria)
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Who was Andreas Vesalius?
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The "father of anatomy" - he dissected corpses (sometimes illegally obtained) to point out errors in the logic of Galen.
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The title of Nicolaus Copernicus' most famous book.
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"On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres."
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(France) Name the estate:
(1) Peasant; (2) Merchant; (3) Nobles; (4) Monarchy; (5) Upper Clergy; (6) Lower Clergy. |
(1) Third;
(2) Third; (3) Second; (4) Second; (5) First; (6) First. |
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(France) Who killed the radical journalist Jean Paul Marat?
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Charlotte Corday.
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(France) When the king and queen were forced to come to Paris so the revolutionaies could watch them more closely, they were brought where?
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The Tuileries.
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(France) Term for the "middle class".
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Bourgeoise.
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(France) Citizens of Paris attacked it in search of gunpowder.
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The Bastille.
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(Napoleon) Where was Napoleon born? What was his native tongue?
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Corsica; Italian.
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(Napoleon) Who was Napoleon's wife?
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Josephine (de Beauharnais).
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(Napoleon) In 1799, The First Consul was overthrown and General Napoleon was installed as the new leader of France. What is the French word for this "seizure of power"?
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Coup d'etat.
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(Napoleon) At it's longest, Napoleon's empire stretched for ____ miles. At it's largest, he ruled over ____ million people.
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1500 miles; 70 million people.
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(France) List the dates:
(1) Tennis Court Oath; (2) Storming of the Bastille; (3) March on Versailles. |
(1) June 20, 1789;
(2) July 14, 1789; (3) October, 1789. |
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(France) Who was Olympe de Gouges, and what did she write?
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A playwright and French suffregette, she wrote "Declaration of the Rights of Women."
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(France) Who was Robespierre?
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A revolutionary Jacobin leader who sought to control France with an iron fist; he began the Reign of Terror, beheading "enemies of the public" with little or no legal justification.
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(Latin America) Toussaint L'ouverture helped liberate which country?
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Haiti. (Previously Hispaniolia.)
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(Latin America) Who was Simon Bolivar? What countries did he help liberate?
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Simon Bolivar was an educate creole. He helped liberate Venezuela, Columbia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia.
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(Latin America) What race was Dom Pedro? Where did he rule?
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Portugese; Brazil.
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(Latin America) Where did Father Miguel Hidalgo give his "Grito", his speech preaching revolutions against Spain?
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Dolores, Mexico.
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(Latin America) Who was Father Jose Morelos?
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A priest who led armed forces in the effort to liberate Mexico.
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(Latin America) What countries did Jose de San Martin help liberate? What famous general did he fight against?
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Argentina, Peru, Chile; Napoleon Bonaparte.
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(Agricultural Revolution) What were enclosures, and what did they allow for?
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"Enclosures" were large farm field enclosed by fences, privatized land that, along with the concept of crop rotation, paved the way to allow for agricultural experimentation.
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(Industrial Revolution) Why was England [Britain] the country where the Industrial REvolution technically began?
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Land, labor, and capitol -- good natural resources in abundance (coal and iron for materials, river for power, and harbors for imports and exports); an expanding economy; practiced mercantilism; lots of workers.
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(Industrial Revolution) Who built the first steamboat? What was it called?
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Robert Fulton; "The Clermont".
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(Industrial Revolution) Give a benefit versus a non-benefit of working in an Industrial Age factory.
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(+) Creates jobs; encourages technological progress; education expands; cheaper clothing and other items; diet and housing improve.
(-) Long hours; dangerous working conditions; widespread illness; short average lifespan (sometimes as low as 17 years); lack of sanitary codes; factory owners live luxuriously while working class suffers. |
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(Latin America) What two countries chiefly colonized Latin America?
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Portugal and Spain.
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Neoclassical.
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"Apotheosis of Homer" by Ingres (1827). What is the theme?
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(Note the fact that the entire image is centered around Greeks.)
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De Las Crox.
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"Liberty Leading the People", Romantic. (1830) Who was the artist?
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Dark, dreary feeling -- realistic art style -- inability to see the subject's faces clearly.
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"March of the Weavers", by Kollwitz, Realism. (1897) What is the giveaway that this piece is "realistic"?
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"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Joseph Turner.
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What is this picture called? Who is the artist?
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Degas.
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"Women Ironing", Realism. (1834) Who is the artist?
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He went blind in later years and began sculpting - he is most famous for his depictions of ballerinas and other dancers.
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(Africa) Who was Cecil Rhodes?
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An English prime minister who wanted the entire continent of Africa to be under British rule.
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(Africa) Which canal was completed in 1869?
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The Suez Canal.
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(Africa) Which country had no colonies in Africa by 1914?
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The Netherlands.
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(Africa) It was in which war that the Chinese lost Hong Kong to Britain?
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The Opium War.
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