The Enlightenment
Rene Descartes accidently created this "rational religion" with his mechanical view of the universe.
What is Deism?
This monarch was deposed (removed) during the French Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France in this year.
What is 1803?
This Scottish philosopher explained the concept of Capitalism in his book, The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
This time period is where the term "liberalism" first emerged.
What is the Enlightenment?
Named after a biblical sea monster, this work by Thomas Hobbes was received with great criticism by his contemporaries.
What is Leviathan?
This legislative body formed when the Three Estates merged together in 1789.
What is the National Assembly?
This 1,000 year empire was dissolved by Franz II to prevent Napoleon from seizing the title of its ruler.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
In his work, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx expressed how modern industrial society has enslaved the working class, which he refers to by this term.
What is the Proletariat?
This 19th Century pope is often regarded as a liberal, although this could not be farther from the truth.
Who is Pope Pius IX?
The dramatized origins of these "stone-cutters" are found in the construction of the First Temple under the reign of King Solomon.
Who are the Freemasons?
This French politician found himself the un-named Dictator of France during the bloodiest time in the French Revolution.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This Pope, who returned the Papacy from exile in 1800, worked closely with Napoleon to best assist the Catholics in France and anointed Napoleon at his coronation as the Emperor of France.
Who is Pope Pius VII?
In his response to the "Social Question," Antoine Ozanam and his friends created the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which was committed to doing this.
What is help/serve the poor?
Pope Gregory XVI, often regarded as a reactionary pope, responded to liberalism and religious indifference with this encyclical.
What is Mirari Vos?
Having wrote 40 Encyclicals in his 18 year pontificate, this Roman Pontiff was admired by both his allies and his enemies.
Who is Pope Benedict XIV?
This French government, which emerged following the Reign of Terror, was overthrown during Napoleon's coup d'etat.
What is the Directory Government?
This Austrian Prince oversaw the Congress of Vienna.
Who is Klemens Von Metternich?
This country is often regarded as the place where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Great Britain?
The liberal Napoleonic rule of France inspired many across Europe to embrace their own liberal revolutions, many of which centered around this ideology.
What is nationalism?
These two ideologies (one is a heresy!) found themselves to be intertwined in 17th Century France.
What are Gallicanism and Jansenism?
A revolt of peasant farmers from this region of France sprung up following the execution of the King.
What is the Vendee?
Napoleon faced off against this Russian monarch during his failed Russia Campaign.
Who is Tsar Alexander I?
The rise of the Industrial Revolution had a lot to do with the rise of these two major industries.
What are textiles and the iron industry?
The spirit of the Napoleonic era lived on in 19th Century France, to the point of the restoration of the French Republic in this year.
What is 1848?