Enlightenment
The idea that a government's primary job is to protect the inalienable natural rights of its citizens is a key concept from this historical movement.
What is the Enlightenment
Peter the Great placed models of Western clothing at Moscow's gates and forced traditionalists to pay a fine, demonstrating his status as this type of ruler.
What is an absolute ruler.
The name of the Social Group that were being mistreated by the French government?
What is the Third Estate
Camillo di Cavour advocated for the unification and moral elevation of this European nation in 1846.
What is Italy.
At the height of his military conquests, Napoleon Bonaparte directly or indirectly controlled almost all of this continent.
What is Europe.
This English philosopher heavily influenced the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen with his ideas on natural rights to liberty and property.
Who was John Locke
What is the Third Estate
This famous political document approved by the National Assembly in 1789 declared that "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Both Cavour in Italy and Bismarck in Germany used this powerful force to unite culturally similar people into independent nations.
What is nationalism
Known as "The Liberator," this general led independence movements that freed Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador from Spanish rule.
Who is Simon Bolivar
This phrase describes the Enlightenment political idea that power should be divided so that no single branch of government becomes an oppressor.
What is Separation of Power
Absolute monarchs typically centralized political power by weakening the influence of this traditional wealthy class.
This radical Jacobin leader justified the use of terror to eliminate "internal enemies" and preserve the French Republic.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre
Otto von Bismarck famously claimed that German unification would not be achieved by speeches, but by these two things.
What are "Blood and Iron"
This revolutionary leader successfully declared Haiti independent from French colonial rule.
Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture?
This Enlightenment philosopher argued in The Spirit of the Laws that government power should be divided into executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Who is Montesquieu
Russian Tsar Peter the Great used absolute power to force nobles to cut their long coats and beards to achieve this goal.
What is Westernization (Modernize Russia)
What is the name of the Palace that angered the Third Estate?
What is the Treaty Versailles.
Who is considered The Sword?
Who is Giuseppe Garbaldi
Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 resulted in catastrophic losses for his army primarily due to this harsh factor.
What is harsh cold weather
The Latin phrase “A DEO REX, A REGE LEX” (“The king is from God, and law is from the king”) describes this political philosophy that Enlightenment thinkers fought against.
What is divine right theory
This term refers to a government where power is concentrated in a central authority rather than shared among regional leaders.
What is centralized government (or centralization)?
Following the fall of Napoleon's empire, European leaders met at this famous 1814–1815 conference to restore stability and political balance to Europe.
What is the congress of Vienna
A political policy based on practical, ruthless considerations rather than ideological or moral principles, heavily used by Bismarck.
What is Realpolitik.
What is Mr. Pomara's least favorite drink?
What is Ice Tea