Anything You Can Enlighten, I Can Enlighten Better Pt. 2
A system of power in which a ruler holds total power
What is absolutism?
What was the main tax in France called?
What is the taille?
Why was there a Reign of Terror?
What is "to purge bad/corrupt people from society?
An overthrow of a government or leader, can be peaceful or violent. Also, how Napoleon came to power.
What is a coup de tat?
Who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"?
Who is Wollstonecraft/Mary Wollstonecraft?
Who is:
-Peter the Great
-Louis XIV
-Frederick William
What was the Congress of France called?
What is the Estates-General?
Why did the National Convention choose to execute Robespierre?
What is "because he went too far/no need for more terror"?
What did the Russian army do to their own villages to keep Napoleon's army from finding food?
What is burned them?
Who wrote "The Social Contract"?
Who is Rousseau?
The intellectuals of the Enlightenment were known as what?
What is philosophes?
Where did members of the French 3rd estate meet after being locked out of the assembly?
What is a tennis court?
Why did the Third estate want to change the voting system to 1 vote per delegate instead of 1 vote per estate?
What made up Napoleon's empire? (3 parts)
The French Empire itself
Dependent states-states that were forced to be part of his land after conquering them
Allied states-countries loyal to Napoleon
Who wrote the "Encyclopedia"?
Who is Diderot?
Whose famous idea was about the separation of powers?
Who is Montesquieu?
What is the "Committee of Public Safety?"
There was a shortage of bread in France because there was not enough of this to make bread.
What is grain?
A unique identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols is called what?
What is nationalism?
Adam Smith's famous work on capitalism was called...
What is "The Wealth of Nations"?
What was Rousseau's famous idea? Society was governed by this...
What is a social contract?
How did the Committee respond to the threat of invasion by foreign armies?
What is "by building a huge army"?
What was Robespierre's name for the country once all the bad people had been purged from society?
What is the "Republic of Virtue"?
What was the Continental system?
What is "stopping products from England from being sold in the rest of Europe"?
Napoleon thought if he hurt England financially, they would not be able to continue to fight and wage war...
Who were two of the musical geniuses that lived during this time?
Who are Joseph Haydn OR Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?