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Revolution |Place |Date |Causes |Effects/Impact | |

| |Africa, Middle East, | | | |

|Neolithic Revolution |China, India |60,000BC |Nomads become farmers and settle down |Creation of Early Civilizations |

| | | | |Growing towns |

|Commercial Revolution |Europe |1000 AD |Increased trade |Money is used instead of barter system |

| | | | |Banks/Growth of Capitalism |

| | | |Questioning spirit – Renaissance and Protestant Reformation |Scientific Method |

|Scientific Revolution |Europe |1500s-1700s | |Heliocentric Theory |

| | | | |Gravity |

| | | | |Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Descartes |

| | | |Corrupt Government |Overthrew French Monarchy becomes limited monarchy |

| | | |Social inequality |Ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity spread |

|French Revolution |France |1780 |National Debt |Spread of nationalism |

| | | |Inspired by American Revolution |Inspired other revolutions |

| | | |Geography of Great Britain |Rise of Middle Class |

|Industrial Revolution |Began in Great Britain |1750s |Population explosion |Ideas of Karl Marx and Adam Smith |

| | | |Advances in Technology |Urbanization |

| | | |Overseas Colonies |Factory System |

| | | |Capital for investments | |

| | | |Corrupt Government |Overthrew Monarchy by the Bolshevik party (Lenin) |

|Russian Revolution |Russia |1917 |Rigid Class structure |Russia becomes Communist (U.S.S.R.) |

| | | |People wanted out of WWI |Command Economy |

| | | |Peasants had no land | |

| | | |Peasants were unhappy with lack of land and a higher standard of |China becomes Communist (Mao Zedong) |

|Chinese Revolution |China |1949 |living |Totalitarian government |

| | | | |Collectives (Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution) |

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|Revolution |Place |Date |Causes |Effects/Impact |

| | | |Government was not meeting the needs of its people |Cuba becomes Communist (Castro) |

|Cuban Revolution |Cuba |1956 |Economic Problem |Increased tension with U.S. |

| | | | |Bays of Pigs Invasion and Cuba Missile Crisis |

| | | |Shah was westernizing Iran |Ayatollah Khomeini – Overthrows Shah |

|Iranian Revolution |Iran |1979 |Religious Muslims were against modernizing |Iran becomes strict Islamic State |

| | | | |Laws based on the Koran |

| | | | |Anti-West |

1. Francis Bacon, Galileo, and Isaac Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on

1. the experiences of past civilizations

2. experimentation and observation

3. emotions and feelings

4. the teachings of the Catholic Church

2. A study of revolutions would most likely lead to the conclusion that pre-Revolutionary governments

1. are more concerned about human rights than the governments that replace them

2. refuse to modernize their armed forces with advanced technology

3. attempt to bring about the separation of government from religion

4. fail to meet the political and economic needs of their people

3. According to Karl Marx, history is the record of the

1. granting of more political liberties to all people

2. struggle between classes in society

3. wars and conflicts between national leaders

4. increasing prosperity brought about by industrialization

4. Before a nation can begin to industrialize, that nation must first develop

1. a democratic government

2. a rigid class structure

3. a strong religious foundation

4. an adequate food supply

5. A major cause of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the

1. defeat of Germany in the Russian campaign

2. marriage of Czar Nicholas II to a German princess

3. existence of sharp economic differences between social classes

4. appeal of Marxism to the Russian nobility

6. The 1917 victory of the communists in Russia was a contradiction of Marxist theory because Russia was

1. already ruled by a socialist government

2. involved in World War I

3. mainly an agricultural society

4. not considered to be a military power

7. In China and the former Soviet Union, the communist governments discouraged organized religion because religions

1. compete for the loyalties of the people

2. support the principles of laissez-faire

3. favor anarchy over organized government

4. stress economic rather than political values

8. In Iran, the Revolution of 1979 and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism resulted in

1. an increase in woman’s rights

2. the westernization and modernization of the nation

3. a return to many traditional customs

4. the introduction of a democratic form of government

9. The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran was a reaction to the failure of Shah Reza Pahlavi to

1. modernize the nation’s economy

2. meet the social and political needs of the people

3. establish political ties with western nations

4. supply the military with advanced weapons technology

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