Vocabulary Terms For the Christmas Break

TASK: WORK must be typed!  Each answer must be at least 2 sentences and contain the following: 
1) What is the meaning of the term?   2) Why is it an important name or moment in history?

& 1. Absolutism


2. Divine Right

3. Louis XIV

4. Peter the Great

5. Revolution

6. Scientific Revolution

7. Geocentric Theory

8. Heliocentric Theory

9. Galileo Galilei

10. Scientific Method

11. Enlightenment

12. Social Contract

13. John Locke

14. Rousseau

15. Enlightened Despots

16. Old Regime

17. Third Estate

18. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

19. Estates-General

20. National Assembly

21. Tennis Court Oath

22. Declaration of the Rights of Man

23. Reign of Terror

24. Maximilien Robespierre

25. Napoleon Bonaparte

26. Napoleonic Code

27. Congress of Vienna

28. Klemens von Metternich

29. Peninsulares

30. Simon Bolivar

31. Nationalism

32. Giuseppe Garibaldi

33. Otto von Bismarck

34. “Blood and Iron”

35. Industrialization

36. Agricultural Revolution

37. Factors of Production

38. Urbanization

39. Middle Class

40. Adam Smith

41. Laissez-faire

42. Capitalism

43. Communism

44. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

45. Union

46. Imperialism

47. Social Darwinism

48. “White Man’s Burden”

49. Berlin Conference

50. Sepoy Mutiny

51. Opium War