Roots of
Democracy
Revolutions
Industrial
Revolution
Nationalism/
Imperialism
WWI
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Roots of Democracy
Question
What did the English Bill of Rights help to establish?
Answer
Limited monarchy
Question
Who thought philosopher-kings would make the
best rulers?
Answer
Plato
Question
What led to the Glorious Revolution in England?
Answer
James II abdicated, Parliament offered throne to
William and Mary, signed English Bill of Rights
Question
What was Justinian’s major contribution to
Byzantium?
Answer
Codified law code
Question
What did William the Conqueror do?
Answer
Victorious at Battle of Hastings, strengthened
feudalism, conducted census of his lands (Domesday
Book), blended Anglo-Saxon and Norman cultures
together
Revolutions
Question
What were causes of the French Revolution?
Answer
Bastille, deficit spending, famine, cahiers, ancien
regime
Question
What did Robespierre's Committee on Public Safety
do?
Answer
Protect the revolution from its enemies (moderates)
Question
What was Napoleon’s Continental System?
Answer
France tried to blockade Britain, stopping them from
trading with Continental Europe, doesn’t work
(Britain has a really good navy)
Plus, Napoleon had to give up his plan to invade
Britain (cause…you know…awesome navy)
Question
Why call the Congress of Vienna?
Answer
1. Undo what Napoleon did
2. Bring peace to Europe
3. Redraw political boundaries
Question
What was the legacy of the Congress of Vienna?
Answer
Influenced European politics for next 100 years
Industrial Revolution
Question
What was the first industry to industrialize in
Britain?
Answer
textiles
Question
What caused growth of cities?
Answer
Need for factory workers
Question
What were cities like during the Industrial
Revolution?
Answer
-cities started out as terrible places to live with
slums, contaminated water supply, etc.
-cities got better over time with parks, boulevards,
etc.
Question
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Answer
Inventions caused a rapid change in society.
Question
Why was Britain the first to industrialize?
Answer
-natural resources
-stable government and economy
-advancements in textile industry
-transportation revolution (trains, etc)
Nationalism & Imperialism
Question
How did nationalism effect Austria-Hungary and the
Ottoman Empire?
Answer
Pulled the empires a part
Question
What is the “White Man’s Burden?”
Answer
Moral obligation to help those who are “uncivilized”
Question
What led to the Sepoy Rebeliion?
Answer
Indian soldiers would not tear open cartridges
greased with pig/cow fat, imprisoned
Question
What is the Dual Monarchy?
Answer
Austria-Hungary is one empire with two separate
governments in place
Question
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Answer
-Japan industrialized
-Japan modernized their military
-Japan did away with old customs, like samurai
World War I
Question
What was the importance of the First Battle of
Marne?
Answer
-Started trench warfare on western front
-showed western front would not be an easy, quick
battle
Question
What was the goal of the Schlieffen Plan?
Answer
Take out France quickly by going through Belgium so
Germany does not have to fight on two fronts
Question
What were the differences between the Eastern and
Western Fronts?
Answer
Western Front: trench warfare, main theater, in
France
Eastern Front: longer line, no trench warfare, by
Russia
Question
Terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer
-Germany pays reparations
-reduced size of German military
-Germany got sole blame for war
-Germany had to give back Alsace-Lorraine and
other territories
-self-determination for Eastern Europeans
-League of Nations
Question
MAIN and diplomatic causes of the war?
Answer
MAIN – militarism, alliance system, imperialism,
nationalism (assassination of archduke/MANIA)
Diplomatic causes – assassination of Archduke,
“blank check” to Austria, ultimatum to Serbia, pre
mobilization of Russian army, Germany invades
Belgium, declarations of war