Philosophers
Enlightenment
French Revolution
Napoleon & Beyond
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
Year in which the French Revolution began.
What is 1789?
100
Napoleon's final defeat.
What is the battle of Waterloo?
100
The method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
200
spread Enlightenment ideas through his work, the Encyclopedia.
Who is Diderot?
200
Writing technique Enlightenment writers used to avoid censorship.
What is they wrote fiction?
200
The social class that the clergy belonged to.
What is the First Estate?
200
This country remain free from Napoleon's control.
What is Great Britain?
200
the French middle class.
What is the bourgeoisie?
300
Believed that people were basically bad & government should control the people.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
Ruler that influenced political and social change.
What is an enlightened despot?
300
The social class that made up the majority of the National Assembly.
What is the Third Estate?
300
Napoleon's three-man governing board.
What is the Consulate?
300
the main leader behind the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
400
Philosopher that believed people were basically good.
Who is Rousseau?
400
Ruler who disguised himself as a peasant.
Who is Joseph II?
400
The National Assembly's plan to pay off the debt of France.
What is the selling of church lands?
400
Tactic of destroying farmland and resources by the Russians to defeat Napoleon.
What is scorched-earth policy?
400
The old order in which France was divided into three social classes.
What is the ancien regime?
500
Argued that the forces of supply & demand in a free market can regulate business activity.
Who is Adam Smith?
500
Rules that thinkers applied to human behavior.
What is natural law?
500
Type of government created with the Constititution of 1791 by the National Assembly.
What is a limited monarchy?
500
Meeting of European nations to suppress revolutions in Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
500
A group of laws that reflected Enlightenment principles.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
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