World (1700s) Flashcards

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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?

A

In Australia, not everyone is equally patriotic about Australia Day.

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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?

A

Liechtenstein

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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?

A

Sturm und Drang

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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.

A

Toussaint L’Ouverture

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What 1756-1763 conflict has been called “World War Zero” because it involved every major European power and took place on five continents?

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The Seven Years’ War raged between 1756 and 1763.

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How did an estimated 50,000 people die in Lisbon, Portugal in November 1755?

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This was one of the deadliest earthquakes in recorded history.

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By what aliases were French diplomats Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval known in headlines of 1798?

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They were the X, Y, and Z of the XYZ Affair, a trio of French diplomats who walked around with their flies down.

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The kingdom of Ayutthaya existed for roughly 400 years, until the mid-18th century, in what is now what country?

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Thailand

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In 1733, James Oglethorpe, with a charter from the current British king, brought the first group of about 120 settlers to what colony?

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Georgia

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