World (1700s) Flashcards
What country’s national day, January 26, commemorates the 1788 landing of the First Fleet, but is sometimes referred to as “Invasion Day” by minority groups?
In Australia, not everyone is equally patriotic about Australia Day.
The purely political purchases—in 1699 and 1712, respectively—of the Lordship of Schellenberg and County of Vaduz resulted in the formation of what modern-day sovereign state?
Liechtenstein
What is the name of the revolutionary literary movement of late-18th-century Germany, a short-lived and intensely emotional precursor to Romanticism named after a 1776 play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, which rejected classicism in favor of artistic creativity and subjective feeling?
Sturm und Drang
This Haitian is the best-known military leader of his country’s slave uprising. In 1801 an autonomist Haitian constitution was declared with him as Governor-General for life. In 1802, however, he was forced to resign and jailed by Napoleon’s forces.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
What 1756-1763 conflict has been called “World War Zero” because it involved every major European power and took place on five continents?
The Seven Years’ War raged between 1756 and 1763.
How did an estimated 50,000 people die in Lisbon, Portugal in November 1755?
This was one of the deadliest earthquakes in recorded history.
By what aliases were French diplomats Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval known in headlines of 1798?
They were the X, Y, and Z of the XYZ Affair, a trio of French diplomats who walked around with their flies down.
The kingdom of Ayutthaya existed for roughly 400 years, until the mid-18th century, in what is now what country?
Thailand
In 1733, James Oglethorpe, with a charter from the current British king, brought the first group of about 120 settlers to what colony?
Georgia
