Napoleon
This established a clear set of laws that were applicable to all members of French society.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
Believed all people were born with Basic Natural Rights such as Life, Liberty and Property. If the government did not protect these rights then the people could rebel.
Who is John Locke?
The Belief that the Right to Rule Came From God
What is Divine Right Theory?
The Theory that the EARTH is the center of the Universe.
What is the Geocentric Theory?
This estate was responsible for the tax burden in France.
What is the Third Estate?
From 1804 to 1814, Napoleon took on many European powers. He annexed (added on) parts to France from the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Germany. This meeting was held to restore Europe after Napoleon fell from power.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This thinker supported the idea of free speech. He is quoted as saying...I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It
Who is Voltaire?
The Italian Philosopher that believed a ruler should rule with fear over love.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
The Theory that the SUN is the center of the Universe
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This building was stormed and destroyed as a symbol of the French Government leading up to the revolution.
What is the Bastille.
Policy that closed all European ports to Britain
What is the Continental System?
This thinker developed the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This ruler of Russia took on a policy of Westernization and Modernization of the country.
Who is Peter the Great?
Scientist responsible for the Heliocentric Theory.
Who is Copernicus?
This King was removed from power and put to death as a result of the revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
Napoleon sent 60,000 troops to invade this Nation. The people of this nation retreated eastward, and along the way, burned crops and villages, also known as the “scorched Earth policy.”
Who is Russia?
This think supported Equal rights for women and equal access to education for all people.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This French Ruler of France was referred to as the Sun King built the palace of Versailles and saw himself as God's Chief Representative on Earth.
Who is Louis XIV
This Scientist supported the Heliocentric theory after it was proven. He later recanted this support after being accused as a heretic.
Who is Galileo?
(Two Answers) This movement of Thinking and this conflict inspired the people of France to Revolt.
What are The Enlightenment and The American Revolution?
Of all their public institutions Napoleon believed this was the most important
What is public education?
This thinker supported the idea of the social contract a concept that argues that laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people.
Who is Jean-Jaques Rousseau?
King of Spain and Portugal who ordered the unsuccessful invasion of England with the Spanish Armada.
Who is Philip II?
a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
What is the Scientific Method?
Later put to death, this revolutionary was responsible for the reign of terror.
Who was Robespierre?