HST504

Lecture 1 Key Terms

“declineism”

Gross National Product—GNP

Napoleon

Battle of Waterloo

Great Powers 1914

·        Great Britain

·        France

·        Germany

·        Russia

·        Austria-Hungary

·        United States

Italy

Japan

homo sapiens

cuneiforms

civilization

agriculture

state formation

ancient empires

Western Civilization

wars of religion

Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648

Treaty of Westphalia 1648

Louis XIV

dynastic wars

French Revolution 1789

“citizenship”

nationalism

ideological wars – revolutionary wars

Napoleonic Wars

Congress of Vienna 1815-1816

Concert of Europe (Congress System)

Metternich system

The Four Great Industrial Wars

• The Crimean War 1854-1856

• American Civil War 1861-1865

• Austro-Prussian War 1866

• Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

Entente

Central Powers

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

“The Sick Man of Europe”

British Navy

Industrial Revolution

British liberalism

European autocracy

ideological gap

colonial expansion

imperialism

“Road to India”

Tsar Nicholas I

“gendarme of Europe”

serf

Tsar Alexander II

Emancipation of the Serfs

The People’s Will

Tsar Nicholas II