Absolutism
What happens when all power is placed in the hands of one ruler?
Absolutism
What was the scientific method?
A period when Europeans began to challenge long-held beliefs about the universe and humanity's place in it.
What is the enlightenment?
an intellectual movement centered on reason, logic, and natural laws.
What year did Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power?
1799
What month is it?
February
The system of absolutism was justified through the idea of what?
Divine right
What's observation and experimentation?
When thinkers didn't rely on tradition or religious explanation, they promoted knowledge.
What did John Locke believe about Natural rights?
What happens when Enlightenment ideas collide with inequality and economic hardship?
Led to revolution. There was debt and heavy taxation on peasants.
The animal that has a hump on its back
A cammel
What is divine right?
Who introduced the Heliocentric model?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Voltaire defended what?
Happened in 1789 that motivated by fear of a royal attack and the need for weapons.
Who won the Super Bowl?
Seahawks
What ruler expanded their nation through costly wars to increase power and prestige?
Louis XIV of France
What's the heliocentric theory?
The thought that Earth revolved around the sun.
What did Diderot's Encyclopedia challenge?
Church authority and promoted reason, alarmed catholic officials, thinking that it unfairly criticized them.
A series of guillotine executions was known as?
Reign of terror
How many colors are in the rainbow?
7
What are enlightened deposits?
Monarchs modernize their rule by adopting Enlightenment ideas while keeping absolue authority.
Who invented the telescope?
Galileo Galilei
What's the neoclassical style?
Balance, order, and admiration.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
The government was promoting equality and fair taxation.
What holiday is coming up?