What is a revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: a revolution is any violent overthrow that results in a government-regime change in addition to: (1) rapid and fundamental political and economic change. Examples include wars of national liberation, the French Revolution, Russian Revolution, and Chinese revolution. Key features include: change is almost always violent, creates new elites, broadens social, political, and economic participation. That being said, they are rarely democratic. Rhetoric = mix of class-based struggles, anti-imperialist struggles, and anti-colonial struggles. Revolutionaries can come to power through mass uprisings or guerrilla warfare.
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A. more transparent B. secretive and insular C. tied to religious belief D. driven by economic interests
The Crusades began as a response to __________
A) Muslim threats to Christians in the eastern Mediterranean B) French challenges to the authority of the Byzantine Empire C) German attempts to seize lands of the Holy Roman Empire D) Viking destruction of Christian churches in Constantinople
For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. iconoclasm
What will be an ideal response?
President Eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as
a. the Fair Deal. b. the silent majority. c. dynamic conservatism. d. two cars in every garage. e. compassionate conservatism.