History 104.005/006
Spring 2002
Names, Places
and Important Terms to Remember
This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here chronologically according to the date in which they defineded in class or were written on the class blackboard.
Click on any past class date in this calendar to access the terms for that week.
- Age of Discovery
- Amerigo Vespucci (Americus Vespuccius)
- Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo)
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Giovanni di Verrazano
- John Cabot (Giovanni Cabote)
- Vasco de Gama
- Adam Smith
- Angola
- Bartholomew Diaz
- Battle of Porto Calvo
- Battle of Guarapes
- "Black Legend"
- brazil wood
- Brazil
- British East India Company
- British West India Company
- capitalism (free market economy)
- Dutch East Indies Company
- Dutch West Indies Company
- French India Company
- Hudson Bay Company
- Itamaracá
- Johan Maurits van Nassau
- laissez-faire
- Massachusetts Bay Company
- Mauritius (city)
- mercantilism
- monopolies
- Olinda
- Pedro Alvares Cabral (Capt.)
- Pernambuco
- Pieter Heyn
- Recife
- São Salvador (de Bahia)
- Virginia Company
- Wealth of Nations
- Akbar the Great
- Aztecs
- Babur
- Cuzco
- Deccan Plateau
- demography
- Doña Marina
- encomendero
- encomienda (= mita, cuatequil)
- Fr. Bartolome de Las Casas
- Francisco Pizzaro
- Genghis Khan (Tamujin)
- hacienda (= estancia, fazenda)
- Hernan Cortes
- Humayan
- Law of Burgos (1512) & Law of the Indies (1542)
- Mughal Empire
- Mughals (Moghuls)
- New Spain
- peons, peonage
- poll tax
- Reconquista
- repartimiento
- Shah Jahan
- Sultanate of Delh
- Taj Mahal
- Tenochtitlan
- Timur the Lame (Timur Lang, Tamerlane)
- Age of Revolutions
- Age of Enlightenment
- Agra
- Akbar the Great
- Ancien Regime
- Arungzebe
- Bastille
- bourgeoisie
- Deccan Plateau
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- deism
- the Directory
- Huguenots
- Humayan
- Jahangir
- Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Montagnards
- Mughal Empire
- Palace of Versailles
- poll tax
- sans-culotte
- Shah Jahan
- Taj Mahal
- Tennis Court Oath
- Thermidorean Reaction
- Boston Bay Colony
- bourgeoisie
- Charles I
- Commune of Paris
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Diderot
- Elizabeth I
- English Civil War
- English Bill of Rights of 1689
- Estates General
- French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
- Glorious Revolution
- Henry VIII
- James I
- James II
- Jamestown Colony
- John Locke
- Louis XIV
- Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette
- Mary I
- Montesquieu
- Oliver Cromwell
- National Assembly
- Pilgrims
- Plymouth colony
- Puritans
- Rousseau
- Stamp Act
- Stuarts
- Tennis Court Oath
- Thomas Hobbes
- Thomas Jefferson
- Tudors
- U.S. Bill of Rights
- Versailles
- Voltaire
- William and Mary
section 05 only:
- Charlotte Corday
- Committee of Public Safety
- Commune of Paris
- the Consulate
- Corsica
- Danton
- the Directory
- Girondins
- Grand Terror (= Red Terror)
- Legislative Assembly
- Marat
- Montagnards
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Robespierre
- Thermidorean Reaction
- White Terror
section 06 only:
- assignats
- Bastille
- Bourbons
- bourgeoisie
- Commune of Paris
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Estates General
- Louis XVI
- Marie-Antoinette
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Montagnards
- National Guard of Paris
- National Assembly
- Third Estate
- ancien regime
- Battle of Abukir Bay
- Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
- Battle of Marengo
- Battle of the Pyramids
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Berlin Decree (1806)
- Charlotte Corday
- Committee of Public Safety
- Concordat of 1801
- Continental System
- Coronation of Napoleon (1804)
- Corsica
- coup d'etat (definition)
- Czar
- the Directory
- Egyptian Expedition
- Grand Nation
- Grand Empire
- Grand Nation
- Grand Army
- Great Terror (= Red Terror)
- Gregorian Calendar
- Horatio Nelson (admiral)
- Jean-Paul Marat
- Josephine de Beauharnais
- Julian Calendar
- Legislative Assembly
- Louisianna Purchase
- Malta
- Marie-Antoinette (queen)
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Orders in Council (British - 1807)
- plebiscite
- the Reign of Terror
- sans culottes
- St. Denis (Paris), church of
- Thermidorean Reaction
- War of the Second Coalition
- War of the Third Coalition
- White Terror
- "army of twenty tongues"
- Battle of Borodino
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Battle of Leipzig (Battle of Nations 1814)
- Chamber of Deputies (France)
- King Charles X
- Confederation of the Rhine
- Congress of Vienna
- Continental System
- Crimaean War
- Elba (island)
- Franco-Prussian War
- Grand Duchy of Warsaw
- Grand Duke Constantine (Czar's brother)
- King Louis-Philippe (former Duke of Orleans)
- Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)
- King Louis XVIII
- Metternich
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- One Hundred Days
- partition of Poland
- Russian Campaign (Napoleonic)
- St. Helena (island)
- Treaty of Fontainbleu
- War of the Fifth Coalition (1814)
- agricultural revolution
- communications revolution
- Congress of Vienna
- cotton gin
- Eli Whitney
- flying shuttle
- Grand Duke Constantine (Czar's brother)
- Industrial Revolution: Early Phase
- Industrial Revolution: Late Phase
- industrialism
- James Hargreaves
- James Watt
- John Kay
- Karl Marx
- long-staple cotton
- mule (machine)
- Richard Arkwright
- Samuel Crompton
- spinning jenny
- The Comunist Manifesto
- transportation revolution
- water frame
- Alfred Nobel
- George Stephenson
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Harilal Gandhi
- Kasturbai
- Industrial Revolution: Early Phase
- Industrial Revolution: Late Phase
- Mohandis Gandhi
- mule (machine)
- Panama Canal
- Richard Arkwright
- the Rocket
- Samuel Morse
- Samuel Crompton
- satyagraha
- Suez Canal
- water frame
- ahimsa
- Amritsar Massacre
- dharma
- Indian National Congress
- Jainism
- Katurbai
- Lord Louis Mountbatten
- Mohandis Gandhi
- non-violent resistance vs. passive resistance
- pantheism
- partition of India
- Putlibai
- Ramarajya
- satyagraha
- swaraj
- Amaterasu
- Anwar Sadat (president)
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Balfour Declaration
- daimyo
- Edo (Tokyo)
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
- Iran-Iraq War
- Iraq
- Israel
- Kamikaze
- Kuwait
- Matthew Perry (admiral)
- modernization of Japan
- Nara
- Palestine
- Persian Gulf War
- Saddam Hussein (president)
- samurai
- Shah of Iran
- shinto
- shogun
- shogunate
- Tokugawa Period
- Townshend Harris
- Charter Oath (1869)
- Chosu and Satsuma
- Edo (Tokyo)
- Fukuzawa Yukichi
- Kyoto
- Meiji
- militarization of Japan
- Saigo Takamori
- Satsuma Rebellion
- samurai
- sepuku (Chin.: hara kiri)
- shi-shi
- shogunate