World Civ B Final Exam Study Guide
1.
The Enlightenment was a movement in the 1700s where philosophers believed they could use
___________________ to solve the problems of their society. Enlightenment ideas contributed to the American and French ___________________.
2.
Enlightenment Philosophers:
John Locke Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
3.
Who made up each estate in France’s Old Regime?
4.
What were the causes of the French Revolution?
5.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
6.
What event marks the beginning of the French Revolution?
7.
What machine was invented during the French Revolution as a more humane form of
execution?
8.
Who overthrew the Directory and ruled France from 1799 to 1815?
9.
Where was Napoleon born? Exiled to the first time? Exiled to second time and where he died?
10.
Define the Continental System.
11.
Napoleon’s invasion of which country led to his ultimate downfall?

World Civ B Final Exam Study Guide
12.
The Russians used the __________-___________ policy to destroy all crops and shelters so the
French troops could not use them to survive.
13.
What was Napoleon’s final battle?
14.
Who were the king and queen killed during the French Revolution?
15.
The Congress of Vienna met to restore order to Europe because of the changes caused by?
16.
This movement is based on the belief that each group of people has its own cultural identify and should be united under their own self-governing state: ____________________________
17.
The first mechanized industry (which started in GB) was the ________________ industry.
18.
The key power source of the Industrial Revolution was the _____________________, invented by James Watt.
19.
One major effect of the Industrial Revolution was rapid urbanization. What is this?
20.
This co-author of The Communist Manifesto hated capitalism because he believed it created wealth for a few and poverty for most. He thought that profits were really wages stolen from workers. He urged the proletariat or ______________________ to rise up together against the owners. Who was he?
21.
What topic is illustrated by the following image?
22.
What continent was almost completely colonized by the major European countries in the late
1800s/early 1900s?
23.
List the causes/justifications for the Age of New Imperialism:
24.
List the 4 MAIN underlying causes of World War I.

World Civ B Final Exam Study Guide