Philosophs
Enlightenment
French Revolution
Napoleon
Vocabulary
100
Proposed the idea of separation of powers in government.
Who is Montesquieu?
100
Revolution that influenced the Enlightenment.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
100
The social class that the clergy belonged to.
What is the First Estate?
100
This battle, fought in Belgium, saw the final defeat of Napoleon
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
100
The method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
200
Believed that people were basically bad & government should control the people.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
He developed the laws of gravity
Who is Issac Newton?
200
The National Assembly was formed by members from the Third Estate. Their first undertaking was the swearing of an oath to create a constitution. This oath was called...
What is The Tennis Court Oath
200
Napoleon was born on this small French island
What is Corsica?
200
Early 19th-century movement in art and thought, which focused on emotion and nature rather than reason and society
What is the romanticism?
300
Philosopher that believed people were basically good.
Who is Rousseau?
300
He questioned old ideas and theorized that the Earth actually revolved around the sun, and not vice-versa
Who is Copernicus?
300
This was the single most important cause for the Women's March in October of 1789
What is high bread prices?
300
Napoleon was exiled twice from France. Name the two islands on which his exiles took place
What are Elba and St. Helena?
300
The main leader behind the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
400
This philosopher believed the one's mind is like a blank slate and is shaped and educated by one's experiences
Who was John Locke?
400
She published an essay called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she disagreed that women’s education should be secondary to men’s. Argued that women, like men, need education to become virtuous and useful and urged women to enter the male-dominated fields of medicine and politics.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
The National Assembly's plan to pay off the debt of France.
What is the selling of church lands?
400
This country remained free from Napoleon's control.
What is Great Britain?
400
The old order in which France was divided into three social classes.
What is the old regime?
500
Who said “I do not agree with a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Who was Voltaire?
500
Rules that thinkers applied to human behavior.
What is natural law?
500
This five man council came into effect following the Reign of Terror
What is The Directory?
500
This integral part of the Napoleonic Code strived to maintain ideals of the revolution
What is the Civil Code?
500
A group of laws that reflected Enlightenment principles.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
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