Causes
Enlightenment thinkers inspired the Revolution by promoting these three key ideals.
What are liberty, equality, and fraternity?
He was the King of France at the start of the Revolution and was later executed by guillotine.
Who is Louis XVI?
This event occurred on July 14, 1789, when revolutionaries stormed a prison, marking the official start of the French Revolution
What is the Bastille?
This is the part of a butterfly that holds their sense of taste
What is Ham and Pineapple?
France’s economic struggles were worsened by this Queen’s excessive spending.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This radical leader of the Reign of Terror was known for his belief in virtue through terror.
Who is Robespierre?
Members of the Third Estate took this oath, vowing to not disband until a new constitution was created.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This was Mr. Edel's Major for his arts degree at UBC
What is History?
A series of poor harvests led to shortages of this staple food, causing riots.
What is bread?
This journalist and revolutionary was stabbed in his bathtub.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
This period of extreme violence saw thousands of people executed by guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This scientist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This was Mr. Edel's Minor for his degree at UBC?
What is CNERS? (Classical, Near Easter, and Religious Studies?) (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt)
This assembly was called by Louis XVI to address France’s financial crisis but ultimately led to the Revolution.
What is the Estates General?
Voltaire was one of these
This document, inspired by Enlightenment ideals, declared that all men are born free and equal in rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
The Berlin Wall fell in this year, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War.
What is 1989?
Mr. Edel went to any of these countries for his summer vacation last year.
This pamphlet by Abbé Sieyès argued that this Estate was the most important part of France.
What is the Third Estate?
This military general eventually took control of France and crowned himself Emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Louis XVI was put on trial and sentenced to this fate in 1793.
What is the guillotine?
This deepest part of the ocean is found in the Pacific Ocean and reaches depths of over 36,000 feet.
What is the Marianas tench?
Who is Mr. Edel's favourite student?
None of you. Lol. (Joke) (or is it?)