French Revolution
This governing group was made up of individuals from the Third Estate and became the first revolutionary government of France.
What is the National Assembly?
This system of laws was devised by Napoleon to provide a unified legal system for the French empire.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This is the belief that humans are born as blank slates.
What is tabula rasa?
The palace built by Louis XIV, an extravagant center of government that was the heart of the Old Regime.
What is Versailles?
This philosophy of government stated that a king's power came from God.
What is Divine Right theory?
The storming of this prison was one of the first major actions of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
Napoleon ruled France for this period of time after his exile to Elba.
What is the Hundred Days?
This individual is considered to be the father of deductive reasoning as well as a major mathematician.
Who is Descartes?
What is scorched earth?
Peter the Great, Frederick Wilhelm, and Louis XIV are great examples of this kind of monarch.
What is an absolute monarch?
This phase of the French Revolution was overseen by the Committee for Public Safety and saw the execution of thousands.
What is the Reign of Terror?
These schools were created by Napoleon in order to train a new class of government employee.
What is a lycee?
He is considered the father of the Scientific Revolution.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
A French declaration that gave limited religious freedom to both Catholics and Protestants
What is absolutism?
This five-man executive was the first government of France after the Revolution ended.
What was the Directorate?
Napoleon's defeat caused the powers of Europe to come together at this conference to determine the future of Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
These upper-class French philosophers were the driving force behind the Enlightenment.
Who were the philosophes?
An 18th century art style characterized by deep shadows, intricate detail, and larger-than-life stylistic choices.
What is baroque?
This type of monarchy places limitations on the king or queen. usually through a Constitution.
What is a limited monarchy?
This tool was used to behead enemies of the state during the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
This war was the beginning of the end for Napoleon and was largely fought in Spain.
What is the Peninsular War?
He is believed that humans needed a strong government to survive since humans in their natural states were "nasty and brutish".
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
A person who fights for money rather than national allegiance.
What is a mercenary?
This philosophy stated that government and society should be held to the same standards of reason as the Scientific Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?