French Revolution
They paid 100% of the taxes
third estate
group of laws including Enlightenment ideas
Code Napoleon
female enlightenment despot of Austria
Marie Theresa
theorized that people are greedy and selfish; only powerful government can create a peaceful orderly society
Hobbes
Name one of two major cities of the Renaisssance
Florence or Venice
the legislative boy after the Estate General
National Assembly
treaty signed with Alexander I
Tilsit Agreement
Russian enlightened despot who built schools and hospitals but brutally suppressed serf uprisings
Catherine the Great
heliocentric theory
Coppernicus
"I think therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
Where did this occur? vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established".
Tennis Court Oath
tactic used by Russians to defeat Napoleon
scorched earth policy
city which was considered the Window to the West
St. Petersburg
Concerning the Jews and Their Lies=author
Luther
Rump Parliament 1640-60 voted to abolish the monarchy
Long Parliament
period of French history from 1795-99 under the director Two word phrase
Thermidorian Reaction
defeat by Wellington
Battle of Waterloo
Frederick the Great took Silesia in this war
War of Austrian Succession
French court preacher argued for Divine Right
Boussuet
Economic minister under Louis XIV
Colbert
French nobles who fled to the countryside and fought to preserve the old regime
emigres
British Response to the Continental System
Orders in Council
Russian nobility=term
boyars
Dutch astronomer, teacher of Kepler
Brahe
tried to revive the Spanish monarch
Gaspar de Guzman/Count of Olivares