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| 6291149318 | North American Revolution | a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. | 0 | |
| 6291150890 | French Revolution | a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon that rapidly brought many of its principles to Western Europe and beyond. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas | 1 | |
| 6291151433 | Napoleon Bonaparte | a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars | 2 | |
| 6291152207 | Haitian Revolution | a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection that took place in the former French colony of Saint Domingue that lasted from 1791 until 1804. It affected the institution of slavery throughout the Americas. Self-liberated slaves destroyed slavery at home, fought to preserve their freedom, and with the collaboration of mulattoes, founded the sovereign state of Haiti | 3 | |
| 6291154310 | Spanish American Revolutions | wars of independence were the numerous wars against Spanish rule in Spanish America that took place during the early 19th century, after the French invasion of Spain during Europe's Napoleonic Wars | 4 | |
| 6291155491 | Nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts | 5 | |
| 6291156317 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement | 6 | |
| 6291157096 | Steam engine | a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid | 7 | |
| 6291157764 | British Royal Society | a learned society for science and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as "The Royal Society" | 8 | |
| 6291158578 | Karl Marx | a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His most well-known work is the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history | 9 | |
| 6291159981 | Labour Party | a Centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Growing out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the nineteenth century | 10 | |
| 6291160968 | Proletariat | a term for the class of wage-earners, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labor-power (their ability to work) | 11 | |
| 6291162094 | Progressives | a philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. Became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, out of the belief that Europe was demonstrating that societies could progress in civility from barbaric conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of knowledge as the foundation of society | 12 | |
| 6291163154 | Caudillos | a military-landowner who possessed political power and exercised it in a form considered authoritarian by its adversaries | 13 | |
| 6291163925 | Mexican Revolution | was a major armed struggle c. 1910-1920that radically transformed Mexican culture and government. Its outbreak in 1910 resulted from the failure of the 35-year long regime of Porfirio Díaz to find a managed solution to the presidential succession. | 14 | |
| 6291164636 | Social Darwinism | a name given to various phenomena emerging in the second half of the 19th century, trying to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest in human society. | 15 | |
| 6291165281 | Opium Wars | two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. The wars and events between them weakened the Qing dynasty and forced China to trade with the rest of the world. | 16 | |
| 6291166042 | Boxer uprising | was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty. | 17 | |
| 6291166885 | Tokugawa Japan | was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868. | 18 | |
| 6291167709 | Meiji restoration | was a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. | 19 | |
| 6291168564 | Russo-Japanese War | was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. | 20 | |
| 6291169662 | Indian Rebellion | was a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India Company, that ran from May 1857 to July 1859. | 21 | |
| 6291170488 | Congo Free State | was a large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908, which was in personal union with the Kingdom of Belgium under Leopold II. | 22 | |
| 6291171115 | Cultivation system | was a Dutch government policy in the mid-19th century for its Dutch East Indies colony. | 23 | |
| 6291171730 | Cash-crop agriculture | The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family. | 24 | |
| 6291172238 | Edward Blyden | was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia. | 25 |
