AP World Unit 5: Revolutions

Around 1764, weaver and carpenter James Hargreaves, living near Blackburn in Lancashire, England, invented the spinning jenny — a frame allowing one worker to spin eight threads of cotton…

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in what is now the United States, sits on the mid-Atlantic coastal plain where the Appalachian Mountains slope down toward the Atlantic seaboard — exactly the region the…

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in what is now the United States, sits on the Atlantic seaboard of North America — tucked between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east…

On 26 January 1788, eleven ships of the First Fleet under Captain Arthur Phillip landed at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson, founding the first British penal colony in Australia and the settlement that…

This is Paris, the capital of France — sitting on the Seine River as it winds through the northwestern corner of Western Europe, roughly midway between the English Channel coast and the Alps to the…

This uprising unfolded on Saint-Domingue — the western portion of Hispaniola, the large Caribbean island shared today with the Dominican Republic, lying between Cuba to the northwest and Puerto Rico…

This was Paris, France — a city built across islands in the Seine, which flows west through a flat lowland plain before emptying into the English Channel at Normandy. In October 1793, Marie…

This event unfolded in Paris, France — the city straddling the River Seine in the broad Paris Basin, roughly midway between the English Channel coast and the Alps to the southeast. On November 9…

This event took place at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France — built on the Île de la Cité, a small island in the River Seine, roughly midway between the Atlantic coast and the Rhine delta, deep in…

This event took place in Gonaïves, Haiti — on the western third of Hispaniola, the second-largest island in the Caribbean, nestled between the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the…

Dolores Hidalgo is a small town on the Bajío plateau in north-central Mexico, roughly 250 km northwest of Mexico City and well above sea level on the great interior plain between the Sierra Madre…

Moscow, Russia — the historic inland city near the headwaters of the Volga, deep in the vast Eurasian plain that stretches unbroken from Central Europe to the Ural Mountains. In June 1812, Napoleon…

This was Vienna, Austria — a city cradled in the Alpine foothills of Central Europe, where the Danube River begins its great eastward sweep toward the Black Sea. In 1815, the major European powers…

This event unfolded in Kingston, Jamaica — the largest city of the island of Jamaica, sitting in the Caribbean Sea roughly 150 kilometres south of Cuba and just east of the narrow isthmus connecting…

Epidaurus sits on the northeastern corner of the Argolid peninsula in the eastern Peloponnese, facing the Saronic Gulf and lying roughly 60 km southwest of Athens. On 1 January 1822, Greek…

This event took place in São Paulo, Brazil — on the vast South American continent, inland from the Atlantic coast and south of the great Amazon basin, near the Ipiranga stream. On September 7, 1822…

The Battle of Ayacucho took place in 1824 near the city of Ayacucho, in the high Andes of present-day Peru — exactly on that vast interior plateau where the mountain range dominates the heart of…

This event took place in Stockton-on-Tees, in northeastern England, United Kingdom — exactly where the low-lying coastal plain stretches between the Pennine hills to the west and the North Sea to the…

This was Brussels, the capital of modern Belgium — sitting on the low, flat plain of northwestern Europe, wedged between the Rhine delta to the northeast and the French border to the south, exactly…

This event unfolded in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, sitting on the Thames River in southeastern England — the large island off the northwestern coast of continental Europe, separated…

Istanbul, Turkey — the city straddling the Bosphorus strait where Europe and Asia touch — was the seat of the Ottoman Empire when, in 1839, it launched the Tanzimat, meaning 'reorganization,' a…

This event took place in Seneca Falls, a small town in upstate New York, United States — nestled between Lake Ontario to the north and the Finger Lakes, a cluster of long narrow lakes carved by…

On 21 February 1848, The Communist Manifesto — written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels — was published in London, then the largest industrial city in the world and a refuge for European political…

This is Paris, France — sitting in the Seine basin of northwestern Europe, with the English Channel to the north and the Alps rising to the southeast. In 1848, a wave of liberal and nationalist…

This uprising erupted in Guangzhou, a major port city in southern China, sitting in the Pearl River delta just inland from the South China Sea — exactly the southern interior region where rebel…

This is Meerut, a garrison city on the great Gangetic plain of northern India — sitting exactly where the Himalayan foothills flatten into the wide, river-laced lowlands that stretch toward the Bay…

Saint Petersburg, Russia — the imperial capital sitting on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, at the far northwestern edge of the enormous Eurasian landmass — is where Tsar Alexander II signed the…

The coordinates point to Prince Edward Island, a small crescent-shaped island cradled in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the Atlantic coast of northeastern North America — the site of the 1864…

This event unfolded in Tokyo, the capital of Japan — an island nation curving along the western Pacific, separated from the Asian continent by the Sea of Japan. In 1868, Emperor Meiji was restored to…

This event unfolded in Tokyo, Japan — a city on Honshu island's eastern bay, facing the Pacific at the far edge of the Asian continent. In 1868, the Meiji Restoration ended the Tokugawa shogunate and…

This event took place in the Palace of Versailles, just southwest of Paris, France — the grand royal complex sitting on the flat plains of the Île-de-France, between the Seine River and the Loire…

This event unfolded in Saint Petersburg, Russia — a city built on the delta of the Neva River where it meets the eastern end of the Baltic Sea, at the northwestern corner of the world's largest…