Monarchs & Early Democracy
Who are Peter the Great and Louis XIV
Absolute Monarchs
Who said "that people have natural rights and can overthrow an unjust government."
John Locke
"No taxes without representation" was the rally call of what?
What is the American Revelation?
Who was the kind that could NOT stop the French Revelation?
Louis XVI
What is coup?
A forced takeover of a country
Peter the Great was the Czar of what country?
Russia
Who wrote that “nasty, brutish, and short?”
Thomas Hobbes
Which American wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What percentage of the French population was part of the Third Estate?
98%
France was lead by who during the Napoleonic Wars?
Napoleon
Who was the person who started the Reformation?
Martin Luther
Who was instrumental in the discovery of gravity?
Issacs Newton
What is the idea behind Enlightenment?
that all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property
What day did a mob stormed a prison looking for weapons and gunpowder?
July 14th Bastille Day
What was Napoleon's first downfall?
Russia
Rebirth of knowledge and art was in what period in time?
The Renaissance
This institution dominated medieval society before the Enlightenment.
The Catholic Church?
He argued that governments are created to protect these rights, and if a government is unfair, the people have the right to do what?
overthrow it
Who was safe from the guillotine?
No one
During the the battle of what did Napoleon lose everything?
Battle of Waterloo
King John was forces to sign what?
The Magna Carta
This was the rebirth of art and knowledge.
What is the Renaissance?
John Locke influences what part of the Declaration of Independence?
“That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
The Reign of Terror was responsible for what?
many deaths
Who used enlightenment ideas in South America?
Simon Bolivar