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| 2701101539 | The term "monarch" means | King | 0 | |
| 2701102228 | Absolute monarchs were kings who had | Total control over the nations that they ruled | 1 | |
| 2701103106 | Centralized political control is characteristics of | Absolute monarchies | 2 | |
| 2701104583 | Absolute monarchs believed in this, which was the idea, similar to the Mandate of Heaven in China, that kings received their power to rule directly from God. | Divine Right | 3 | |
| 2701105109 | Some important absolute monarchs include: | Peter the Great, Louis XIV, Philip II, Henry VIII, Suleiman the Magnificent | 4 | |
| 2701107066 | Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and Suleiman the Magnificent helped expand (enlarge) the territory of their nations by | Taking over neighboring lands | 5 | |
| 2701124088 | A sudden and dramatic change in how people viewed the world from the 1500s to the 1600s. | Scientific Revolution | 6 | |
| 2701124710 | Key people of the Scientific Revolution: | Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Brahe, Descartes | 7 | |
| 2701126353 | During the Scientific Revolution, these two concepts were used to explain how the world worked. People no longer turned only to the Bible and the Catholic Church for answers. | Science and reason, or logic | 8 | |
| 2701127773 | Key effects of the Scientific Revolution: | 1. Spread of new ideas throughout Europe 2. Challenged traditional authority of the Bible and of the Catholic Church 3. New ideas of this period led directly to the Enlightenment | 9 | |
| 2701132748 | The Enlightenment is often called the Age of | Reason | 10 | |
| 2701133210 | Key ideas of the Enlightenment: | 1. Society can be improved by using reason and natural law 2. Governments receive their authority from the governed, NOT from God 3. Democracy | 11 | |
| 2701135123 | The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment both encouraged | The spread of new ideas and the use of reason | 12 | |
| 2701136979 | Key people of the Enlightenment: | John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau | 13 | |
| 2701138000 | Key effects of the Enlightenment: | Political Revolutions, Enlightened Despots | 14 | |
| 2701138990 | An event in which the people of a country overthrow an existing government and create a new government. | Political Revolution | 15 | |
| 2701139994 | The event in which the people of England successfully limited the power of their monarchs (kings). | Glorious Revolution | 16 | |
| 2701141008 | The Glorious Revolution took place because people in England believed that the absolute monarchs of England | Were unfair and had too much power | 17 | |
| 2701141490 | Key effects of the Glorious Revolution: | 1. England became a limited monarchy 2. Power of English monarch limited by: - Magna Carta - Petition of Rights - English Bill of Rights - Habeas Corpus | 18 | |
| 2701144797 | As a result of laws limting the power of the English monarch after the Glorious Revolution, English kings had to share power with | Parliament | 19 | |
| 2701146649 | The event in which the people of France overthrew their king (Louis XVI) and fought for more rights. | French Revolution | 20 | |
| 2701147406 | Key causes of the French Revolution: | 1. Unhappiness of Third Estate 2. Spread of Enlightenment ideas 3. Abuse of absolute monarchy 4. Economic crisis as a result of overspending of the absolute monarch | 21 | |
| 2701151112 | Key events of the French Revolution: | 1. Declaration of the Rights of Man 2. Reign of Terror | 22 | |
| 2701151586 | Key effects of the French Revolution: | 1. King Louis XVI of France was executed by Robespierre and the Jacobins 2. The middle class of France (bourgeoisie) gained more power and rights | 23 | |
| 2701154960 | The ruler who came to power at the end of the French Revolution. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 24 | |
| 2701155502 | How did Napoleon expand French territory? | By conquering neighboring lands in Europe | 25 | |
| 2701156798 | By expanding the country beyond its borders, Napoleon promoted this feeling among his people. | Nationalism | 26 | |
| 2701158589 | The Regents wants you to know that Napoleon was finally defeated in 1812 because he made a big error (mistake). What was it? | He invaded Russia during the winter and the freezing climate (weather) of Russia killed thousands of his soldiers. The same mistake was later made by Hitler during WWII. | 27 | |
| 2701164178 | The events where the colonies of Latin America (Central America, South America, and the Caribbean) fought to gain independence (self-government) from Spain, Portugal, and France. | Latin American Revolutions | 28 | |
| 2701165394 | Key causes of the Latin American Revolutions: | 1. Control and discrimination of peninsulares 2. Spread of Enlightenment ideas 3. Initial success of American and French Revolutions | 29 | |
| 2701167510 | Key people of the Latin American Revolutions: | 1. Simón Bolívar 2. José de San Martín 3. Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla 4. Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture | 30 | |
| 2701169834 | Who were nationalists in early nineteenth century Latin America? | People who loved their nations and wanted them free from European control. | 31 | |
| 2701174756 | After gaining independence, attempts were made to unify (combine) the different areas of Latin America in order to form one country (Gran Colombia). These attempts failed because Latin America has many of these (i.e. - Andes Mountains, Amazon Rainforest, etc.) that prevent communication between regions. | Natural boundaries | 32 |
