These people were poor and often hungry
What is the Third Estate
What is Royal family forced to leave Versailles by mob of women demanding bread
What is October 4, 1789,
believed in a Creator God, they just had a remote view of Him.
Who are Deists?
The brightest intellectual minds of the day
used to gather in the evenings at the houses
of wealthy people.
Who are the Enlightenment Thinkers or philosophers
largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
Who was Robert Boyle
On top of the Estate System, France had a supreme leader in the king:
What is an absolute monarch
What is Reign of Terror begins
What is 1793 September 5
An English philosopher who lived from 1588-1679. He wrote The Leviathan.
Who was Thomas Hobbes
In the 18th century, nearly a century after
the Scientific Revolution.
When did the Enlightenment occur?
published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers
What is the Encylopedia
French document compares to the American Declaration of Independence?
What is Declaration of Rights of man and citizen
King Louis XVI calls a meeting of the Estates General
What is 4-5 May 1789
another English philosopher who lived from 1632-1704, and wrote Two Treatises on Government.
Who was John Locke
God-given right to rule. God had placed these
specific monarchs on the throne.
What is Divine Right
As an enthusiastic patron of the arts and sciences, a gifted musician and a correspondent with the top minds of the Enlightenment,
Marie Antoinette
Who was the Queen of France at the start of the French Revolution?
Tennis Court Oath
What is 20 June 1789
He was a French noble who lived from 1689-
1755 and wrote The Spirit of the Laws.
Who was Montesquieu
There was no freedom of religion, and attacks
on religious minorities were still common.
Why was the religious situation in Europe
still volatile?
an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen,[5] having isolated it in its gaseous state
Who was Joseph Preistly
The French Revolution came to an end when this famous military leader came to power.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
The Storming of the Bastille
What is 14 July 1789
a French philosopher who lived from 1712-1778 and wrote The Social Contract.
Who was Rousseau
That society would ultimately become enlightened through the use of reason, and through the progress reason offered.
What was the promise of the Enlightenment?
Holy Roman emperor from 1790 to 1792, one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the “enlightened despots.”
Who was Leopold II