Early Japan
What kind of landform is Japan?
Islands / Archipelago
Which Enlightenment thinker argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property?
John Locke
This is the term for an absolute ruler who embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment:
Enlightened Despot
This king was executed for bankrupting France, enforcing high tax rates, ignoring the will of the people, and trying to sneak out of the country:
Louis XVI
The first wife of Napoleon:
Josephine
These were the warriors who defended the daimyo:
Samurai
Which Enlightenment thinker is most closely associated with freedom of speech and religious tolerance?
Voltaire
This term describes the fight for voting rights:
Suffrage
This event is the start of the French Revolution:
Storming of the Bastille
This set of laws was created to guarantee rights to the people of France:
The Napoleonic Code
In order to get goods from Asia, the Japanese would have to do this:
Trade
What was Baron de Montesquieu known for?
Separation of powers
Give an example of a right that women were fighting for during the Enlightenment:
Voting, property rights, education, liberty
This group of people paid the highest taxes in France prior to the French Revolution:
The Third Estate
Russia
This family is responsible for the sealing off of Japan from the outside world:
Tokugawa
According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, legitimate government should be based primarily on what?
Will of the people (the people vote for who is in power)
This female ruler of Russia was and Enlightened Despot and embraced the ideals of the Enlightenment:
Catherine the Great
This document was created during the Tennis Court Oath - it was written with the idea that the people of France deserve natural rights:
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
This country forced Japan to open up it's borders and trade:
The United States
Which Enlightenment thinker wrote The Social Contract?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This woman was one of the first feminists and argued that women had the same natural rights as men:
Mary Wollstonecraft
This individual was responsible for the Reign of Terror and used the guillotine to execute those he thought were traitors to France:
Maximilien Robespierre
This conference of European countries reset the borders of Europe to what they used to be before Napoleon conquered Europe:
The Congress of Vienna