Scientific Revolution
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This is the theory that the earth revolves around the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
100
The exchange between society and the government according to Thomas Hobbes.
What is the social contract?
100
This prison-fortress was attacked on July 14th, 1789.
What is the Bastille?
100
This French general is considered to be one of the greatest military leaders of all time.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
This palace is where thousands of women marched to confront the king.
What is the palace of Versailles?
200
Theory that the earth was the center of the universe and the sun, moon, and planets revolved around it.
What is the geocentric theory?
200
This thinker believed in natural laws and natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
200
In France, this estate consisted of the clergy
What is the first estate?
200
This is a sudden seizure of power or blow to the state.
What is a coup d’état?
200
This estate consisted of the commoners, the majority of the population of France.
What is the 3rd estate?
300
A new approach to investigation and discovery. Observation, hypothesis, etc.
What is the Scientific Method?
300
His most famous work was Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
This French Parliamentary body that consisted of members from each estate.
What is the Estates General?
300
This policy was used by Russian forces to hinder the enemy by burning supplies.
What is the scorched earth policy?
300
Queen of France during their revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
400
Built the telescope used for astronomy.
Who is Galileo?
400
This thinker advocated freedom of thought, speech, politics, and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
400
This is when the National Assembly swore a solemn oath “never to separate” until a fair government had been set up
What is the tennis court oath?
400
This approved a new constitution that gave Napoleon all the real power as first consul (vote of the people).
What is plebiscite?
400
The struggle that developed between different groups of revolutionaries where there was a lot of mistrust.
What is the Reign of Terror?
500
These TWO men are considered to be the fathers of the scientific method.
Who are Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes?
500
He believed government should have a separation of powers and a system of check and balances.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
500
This man was obsessed with the need for virtue in government and eliminated anyone who stood in his way.
Who is Robespierre?
500
The foreign policy of Napoleon in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
What is the Continental System?
500
The agreement with the Pope where the government recognized the influence of the Church but rejected Church control in national affairs.
What is the concordat?
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