absolutism
a style of governing in which monarchs held total control.
What is an absolutism?
A period in which Europeans began to challenge beliefs about the universe and humanity
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The ideas the enlightenment was centered on
What is reason, logic, and natural laws?
An event that revolutionaries viewed as a symbolic act against royal tyranny
What is the storming of the Bastille?
The name of the plastic part at the end of a shoelace
What is an aglet?
The belief that kings and queens received authority from god
What is divine right?
the method in which thinkers promoted knowledge, in contrast to relying on tradition and religious explanation.
What is observation and experimentation?
the natural rights John Locke believed everyone was born with
What is Life, Liberty and Property?
The year and date of the storming of bastille
What is July 14th, 1789?
The amount of cards in a standard deck of playing cards
What is 52?
The ruler of France who expanded the country through costly wars
Who is Louis XIV of France?
The model of the solar system supported by the church and largely contradicted by new thinkers
What is the geocentric model?
The ideas thinkers believed humans and government should be guided by
What is reason?
The name for a series of guillotine executions on those suspected to be enemies of the revolution
What is the Reign of Terror?
The water that freezes faster, hot or cold
What is hot water?
The kind of financial troubles Spain had within the 17th century, not inflation.
What is government bankruptcy?
The Italian scientist who's telescope provided evidence for a model which contradicted the church.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The person who defended freedom of speech and religion
Who is Voltaire?
The man who took power after the revolution
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The human body's largest organ
The method monarchs adopted to attempt modernizing their rule.
What are enlightenment idea?
The Prussian scientist who introduced what new solar system model
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus, and the heliocentric model?
A work of the time period that spread ideas that challenged church authority and promoted reason
The reasons that lead to revolution in france
The only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise on its axis.
What is Venus?