Off With Their Heads!
Revolutionary World
Lasting Legacies
Napoleon Complex
Road to Revolution
100
The primary method of execution for people during the Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
100
During the Seven Years' War, France had lost nearly all its holdings in North America to this rival European power.
What is Great Britain?
100
Thinkers like Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau and Montesque all belonged to this influential intellectual movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Despite what British propaganda would have us believe, Napoleon was actually average this.
What is height?
100
Before the Revolution, France had this kind of monarchy, meaning in theory the king or queen had complete control over the country.
What is absolute?
200
Louis XVI tried to do this with his family but was captured and later sentenced to death.
What is escape?
200
Louis XVI's government decided to support this revolution in order to get back at their hated rivals, the British.
What is the American Revolution?
200
The revolutionary battle cry of Liberte, Egalite, and this is still the national motto of France to this day.
What is "Fraternite"?
200
Napoleon was not born in France, but this island nation in the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Corsica?
200
They represented more than 80% of the French population and were the driving force behind the Revolution.
What is the Third Estate?
300
Parisians chanting "Death to the Austrian" were calling for the blood of this royal to be spilled.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
300
Napoleon's invasion of this European country would prompt a patriotic response in the arts, like this painting from Francisco Goya depicting the tyranny of the new French regime.
What is Spain?
300
This creation of Napoleon reorganized French law and would form the basis for most new legal systems in continental Europe and Latin America in the 19th century.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
300
This woman would wed Napoleon Bonaparte and become the first ever Empress of France.
Who is Josephine?
300
Louis XIV created this iconic French palace on the site of his father's old hunting lodge.
What is Versailles?
400
Robespierre and the Jacobins initiated this stage of the Revolution in which over 50,000 were executed for "crimes against liberty".
What is the "Reign of Terror"?
400
This revolutionary leader served in both the American and French revolutions, helping to write the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Who is Lafayette?
400
This document, penned in the early days of the Revolution is a landmark document in the history of human rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
400
After a series of military campaigns that saw him conquer most of Europe, Napoleon was finally defeated by the British in this historic battle.
What is Waterloo?
400
Reform minded finance ministers like Turgot and Necker suggested the king do this to the nobility in order to solve France's economic problems.
What is tax?
500
Shortly before the Revolution, Louis XVI was gifted with a painted of this beheaded English king who lost his life to rebels over a century earlier.
Who is Charles I?
500
This French colony would have its own revolution in 1791, becoming the second republic in the Americas to become independent from a European power.
What is Haiti?
500
During this national holiday, the French celebrate the day revolutionaries stormed a Royal prison.
What is Bastille Day?
500
Before becoming Emperor, Napoleon took this title for himself in an homage to the Ancient Roman Republic.
What is First Consul?
500
Enlightenment thinkers Hobbes and Locke both describe the relationship between the government and the governed as this.
What is a social contract?