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In 1498, this was the first European nation to reach India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.
What is Portugal?
The storming of this Parisian prison on July 14, 1789, is widely celebrated as the start of the French Revolution.
What is the [Storming of] Bastille?
This body of law recognized the equality of all male citizens and protected property rights across the French Empire.
What is the Napoleonic Code (or Civil Code)?
This Austrian foreign minister was the leading conservative architect of the Congress of Vienna.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
This late-18th-century movement rejected the "cold" rationalism of the Enlightenment in favor of passion and emotion.
What is Romanticism?
This 1707 agreement formally joined the kingdoms of England and Scotland to ensure a peaceful Protestant succession.
What are the Acts of Union?
This segment of the Third Estate consisted of the educated, urban middle class who lacked noble titles.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
This 1801 agreement reconciled the French state with the Catholic Church following the Revolution's de-Christianization.
What is the Concordat of 1801?
The primary goal of the Congress was to restore this system, ensuring no one state could dominate the continent.
What is the Balance of Power?
This philosophe is often described as the "father of the Romantic movement" due to his emphasis on subjective feelings.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This company, known by its initials VOC, was the first transnational corporation to sell shares to stockholders.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This 1789 document affirmed the "natural rights of man," calling for equality, free speech, and popular sovereignty.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This was Napoleon’s blockade system intended to exclude all British goods from European ports.
What is the Continental System?
At the Congress, this form of government was restored to France under the rule of King Louis XVIII.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Founded by John Wesley, this religious movement focused on personal experience with God and charitable works.
What is Methodism?
This term refers to the skills and resources of people and groups within a society that drove 18th-century commercial growth.
What is human capital?
This revolutionary policy created a mass conscription (draft) of all able-bodied unmarried men aged 18 to 25. (Specific Frenchy Term)
What is the levée en masse?
During Napoleon's 1812 invasion, this country utilized a "scorched-earth" policy to deprive the French of food and supplies.
What is Russia?
This loose alliance of 39 states, dominated by Austria and Prussia, replaced the defunct Holy Roman Empire.
What is the German Confederation?
This potent force, awakened by Napoleon's conquests, is defined as pride in one's cultural heritage and a desire for self-determination.
What is nationalism?
This mid-18th-century event saw traditional rivals France and Austria side together against Prussia.
What is the Diplomatic Revolution?
This name was given to the 1794 reaction that resulted in the arrest and execution of Maximilien Robespierre. (Good Luck)
What is the Thermidorian Reaction?
This term refers to the brief period of Napoleon's return to power in 1815 after his initial exile to Elba.
What are the Hundred Days?
A series of mass revolutions that would end the Era of Metternich and upset the conservative post-war order of Europe was known as.
What are the Revolutions of 1848?
This British Romantic poet famously urged readers to "quit your books" and "let Nature be your Teacher".
Who is William Wordsworth?