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Population expansion in the 1700s

Catherine the Great and her various accomplishments

The role that serfdom played in Russia as both a social and political pawn

Why did the Enlightenment begin in France?

What role did the reading revolution play in the Enlightenment?

What role if any did religion play in the Enlightenment?

What political ideas did Montesquieu advocate for?

What was a philosophe?

What ideas did they advocate for?

The Enlightenment truly impacted which portions of society?

Who was Adam Smith?

What did Smith believe was the proper role of government?

What were the British Corn Laws and who was in opposition to them?

What was the significance of the Tennis Court Oath?

What were the accomplishments of the National Assembly?

What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy? 

What was its significance?

Who was Mary Wollstonecraft

Explain Napoleon’s merit-based governmental system

Neoclassicism consists of which major characteristics

What role did Metternech play in the containment of various “isms”, post-Napoleonic Wars

Summarize the goals of the Congress of Vienna

What role did Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Ptolemy play in developing the geocentric and heliocentric theories?

Describe the reign of Joseph II of Austria. Juxtapose that against Louis XIV of France.

Describe a 19th-century liberal. 

What country leads the Industrial Revolution

What initially prevented other countries from industrializing 

Describe romanticism.

Who was Jeremy Bentham? Summarize his ideas

How is romanticism different from other movements during this period?

Who was Voltaire? Summarize his ideas

What was the Reform Bill of 1832? 

What impact did it have on citizens in England?

Explain the Declaration of Rights of Man.

Explain the Continental System

What did Napoleon hope would occur as a result of the system?

Explain how the Greeks won their independence

What is a diest

What were the beliefs of Karl Marx

What is laissez-faire? Which ism would most likely support this theory and why?

What inventions were influential in the first Industrial Revolution

Describe the alliances that emerge from the Congress of Vienna

What was the concert of Europe? Was it successful?

What items existed that allowed the Industrial Revolution to occur when it did?

Describe the Kepler laws of planetary motion

Describe the role that Descartes and Bacon played in the scientific revolution

Why did Louis XVI have to call the estates general in 1789

Why did Marx and Engels initially argue that capitalism was a necessary state of economic development?

Describe the Reign of Terror and why it occurred

Explain the fundamental beliefs of a utopian socialist

Why did many couples wait to marry in modern Europe?

Who were the Chartists

Who was Thomas Malthus? What were his ideas regarding population growth

The first industrial revolution was driven by the production of which item?

How did Frederick the Great push the development of Prussia?

John Locke believed that we were born blank slates. How did this belief influence the gaining of knowledge?

Describe the putting out system

Describe the role the sans-culottes played in the French Revolution