Economic / Political Consolidation
With Cardinal Richelieu they created the modern French State.
Who was King Louis XIII
Russia goes to war with this country in order to get access to the Black Sea in 1774.
What is the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turks)
The view that the universe revolves around the sun.
This Philospher / Writer created the breakthrough text the Encyclopedia.
Who is Denis Diderot
The Catalyst of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille
This monarch was known for having said "I am the State"
Who was King Louis XIV
Places like England began to recognize the importance of using these technical innovations over agriculture.
What is Manufacturing
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau
What is the National Assembly
The Roundheads led a civil war in England led by this general and with the help of the parliamentary army took over England for a period of time called the Commonwealth period.
Who was Oliver Cromwell.
This war has many names but is one of the true first world wars, involving many of the worlds countries at the time.
What is the Seven Years War, The French and Indian War
The Scientist who originally thought of the Geocentric Theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus
This Philosopher promoted radical skepticism by getting rid of empirical senses how do they know that we are alive.
Who is Rene' Descartes
Document that laid out individual rights and liberties.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
The Thirty Years' War was ended by the signing of this treaty that stated the countries of Europe wouldn't go to war over religion again.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia
This former country was a major military powerhouse in central to eastern Europe in the 1700's.
What is Prussia
Famed Astronomer Johannes Kepler is best known for his work in what specific part of Astronomy.
What is the Three Laws of Planetary Motion
Thomas Hobbes believed that humans were always...
What is inherantly bad / evil / greedy
The Thermidorian Reaction includes a phase in which this man led the Committee of Public Safety.
Who was Maxamillian Robespierre.
The right to rule ordained by god was given this title.
What is the Divine Right of Kings
Leader of the Russian nation they led to the defeat of the Ottoman Turks and the Expansion of their lands, going as far as dividing up Poland.
Who was Catherine the Great
The First woman astronomer to discover a comet.
Who was Maria Winkelmann
Where a Philosophe might entertain patrons of the Enlightenment in discussions / lectures.
What is a Salon
The three phases of the French Revolution.
What is the Moderate Phase, the Radical Phase, the Thermidorian Phase.