The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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| 306799679 | Cottage Industry | Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution. | 0 | |
| 306799680 | Rentier | a person who lives on income from property and is not personally involved in its operation | 1 | |
| 306799681 | peons | workers forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt | 2 | |
| 306799682 | textiles | fabric, cloth, clothing | 3 | |
| 306799683 | Coup d'etat | a sudden overthrow of the government | 4 | |
| 306799684 | mestizos | Offspring of intermarraige between Europeans, originally Spaniards, and native American Indians | 5 | |
| 306799685 | creoles | European descendants born in America | 6 | |
| 306799686 | Natural Rights | the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property | 7 | |
| 306799687 | viceroy | governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | 8 | |
| 306799688 | mullatoes | The offspring of Africans and Europeans, particularly in Latin America | 9 | |
| 306799689 | laissez-faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs made up by Adam Smith | 10 | |
| 306799690 | Committee of Public Safety | Had 2 Threats -internal rebellion -foriegn attack had to end: -kill -stop | 11 | |
| 306799691 | Galileo | first person to discover matter on other planets through telescope | 12 | |
| 306799692 | Copernicus | Gets in trouble with Catholoc church thought of ellipses condemned by church above: heavens or mattter? first person to realize that there was a difference | 13 | |
| 306799693 | Catherine the Great | Monarch of Russia exempted nobility from taxes lay down hard laws for slaves (serfs) example enlightened absolutism | 14 | |
| 306799694 | Montesquieu | His ideas later influinced the United States of America's Declaration of Independence | 15 | |
| 306799695 | Role of Europe in American Revolution | France, Spain helped; wanted Britain to lose | 16 | |
| 306799696 | John Locke | Thought that everyone was born with a "blank slate" mind --positive environment can create positive effects | 17 | |
| 306799697 | Declaration of Independence | Formal event led to break of Britain and America | 18 | |
| 306799698 | Robespierre | Leader of the French Revolution Shot himself in head; missed, instead shot himself in jaw, couldn't speak guillotined | 19 | |
| 306799699 | "Total War" | French Revolution turned on civilians | 20 | |
| 306799700 | French Revolution | The second great democratic revolution, taking place in the 1790s, after the American Revolution had been proven to be a success. The U.S. did nothing to aid either side. The French people overthrew the king and his government, and then instituted a series of unsuccessful democratic governments until Napoleon took over as dictator in 1799. | 21 | |
| 306799701 | Yorktown | in 1781 during the American Revolution the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops | 22 | |
| 306799702 | Scientific Method | developed by Isaac Newton | 23 | |
| 306799703 | Adam Smith | came up with laissez-faire | 24 | |
| 306799704 | U.S. Constitution | The document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 that sets forth the institutional structure of the U.S. government and the tasks these institutions perform. It replaced the Articles of Confederation. | 25 | |
| 306799705 | Napoleon | Military Genius of France, who later became a dictator and eventually overthrown. He sold the west land (Louisiana) to the United States for a very cheap price doubling the land of America. | 26 | |
| 306799706 | Louis XVI | - King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793. | 27 | |
| 306799707 | Isaac Newton and Principia | taught at Cambridge University first book: Principia defined three laws of motion | 28 |
