French & American Revolutions
Caused policies that gave less power to 1st and 2nd estates
What is Storming of the Bastille
Natural rights, representative government, social contract
What are ideas of the Enlightenment
System where offices are given based on skill
What is merit based
Heavenly bodies studied by Kepler
What are planets
An English political philosopher that wrote so the average citizen could understand
Who is William Blackstone
Social classes in France before French Revolution
What are estates
A social science focused on the study of governments
What is political science
Master of Europe
Who is Napoleon
A sun centered system
What is heliocentric
A place experiencing expensive wars and revolt and failing at absolutism
What is Spain
Document containing grievances
What is Declaration of Independence
Places where Enlightenment ideas spread to women
What are salons
System of laws that allowed for the equality of all men under the law
What is Napoleonic Code
A system created by Francis Bacon to guide experimentation and the use of reasoning
What is Scientific Method
The document that limited the king's ability to levy taxes, quarter soldiers, and institute martial law
What is the Petition of Rights
Caused new taxes and restrictions
What is Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
A social science focused on the buying and selling of goods and servcies
What is economics
Meeting to try to reset the balance of power in Europe after Napolean
An invention that helped advance the field of medicine during
What is a microscope
Czar that tried to westernize Russia
Who is Peter the Great
Policies where many French people that were viewed as threats were killsed
What is Reign of Terror
Art style that emerged during the Enlightenment
What is Rococo
Russia, continental system, fighting, cold winter, ended in exile
Creators of work that was essential to the Scientific Revolution
Who are Archimedes and Plato
A leader known for his ability to win wars and acquire land
Who is Louis XIV