Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• Lola Rodriguez de Tio

• Philospopher who wrote two Treaties of Government and advocated the idea of the social contract

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• English writer who published A Vindication of the rights of Women in 1792 that argues that women should receive the same education as men

• John Locke

• Leader of revolt in South American colonies against Spanish rule

• Friedrich Engels

• Puerto Rican-born poet and prominent early advocate for Puerto Rican Independence

• Simón Bolívar

• Wealthy supporter of Karl Marx who contributed to the Communist Manifesto which summarized their critique of capitalism

Powerful Japanese family business organizations like the conglomerates in the United States were called what?

• Tanzimat

• Bushido

• Zaibatsu

• Meiji Restoration

The post-Renaissance period in European history devoted to the study and exploration of new ideas in science, politics, the arts, and philosophy was called what?

• Industrial Revolution

• Propaganda Movement

• Second Industrial Revolution

• Enlightenment

This was China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West.

• Zaibatsu

• Communism

• Reign of Terror

• Self-Strengthening Movement

This was a former prison in Paris that symbolized the abuses of the monarchy and the corrupt aristocracy; it was stormed by angry crowds on July 14,1789.

• Bourgeoisie

• Bastille

• Laissez-faire

• Voltaire

This is the desire of Jews to reestablish an independent homeland where their ancestors had lived in the Middle East.

• Realpolitik

• Dreyfus Affair

• Zionism

• Hundred Days of Reform

The transformation of human existence caused by the deliberate cultivation of particular plants and the deliberate taming and breeding of particular animals is called what?

• Seed Drill

• Crop Rotation

• Capitalism

• Agricultural Revolution

This was the “blank slate” that Locke proposed people were born with that could be filled with knowledge.

• Tabula Rasa

• Tanzimat

• Philosophes

• Genros

This stretched from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean, allowing Russia to trade easily with countries in East Asia.

• Coaling Stations

• Company Rule

• Trans-Siberian Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment; wrote Wealth of Nations which responded to mercantilism and called for freer trade.

• Cecil Rhodes

• Charles Fourier

• Adam Smith

• James Watt