Enlightened Despotism
1st & 2nd stage
the 18th century
Napoleon
Potpourri
100

He was called "the first servant of the state."

Who was Frederick II of Prussia?

100

Women marched to Versailles demanding this

What is bread?

100

Enlightenment ideas spread in these three locations

What was taverns, salons & coffeehouses?

100

He was exiled to this island.

What was Elba?

100

"Terror is nothing other than justice, swift and inflexible"

Who was Robespierre?

200

Catherine's enlightened ideas are later limited as a result of this event.

What was the Pugachev rebellion?

200

This is the term for the urban workers and rural peasants by 1792.

What was sans-culottes?


200

They had not been called for 175 years, by 1789.

What was the Estates General?

200

Napoleon adopted this as a way to destroy Britain's economy.

What was the Continental System?

200

These three nations were responsible for partitioning Poland.

Who was Russia, Austria & Prussia?

300

Under this person's rule, it was known as the "Golden Age of the Nobility."

What was Catherine II?

300

They carried the "weight of the country" on them.

Who was the Third Estate?

300

This nation was partitioned three times

What is Poland?

300

His declaration of "First Consul for life" mimicked who in history.

Who was Oliver Cromwell?

300

Priests were supposed to take an oath to the state, which the Pope forbid, according to this document.

What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?

400

This was the major flaw of "enlightened despotism."

Rulers presumed that they knew more than their subjects. 

400

They vowed to meet until a constitution was written

Who was the National Assembly?

400

He proposed the idea of "general will."

Who was Rousseau?

400

This one decree of Napoleon's had a lasting impact on continental Europe.

What was the Napoleonic Code?

400

The Holy Roman Empire, which was renamed under Napoleon to this.

What was the Confederation of the Rhine?

500

He established complete religious toleration.

Who was Joseph II?

500

This established paying taxes according to ability to pay.

What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?

500

He idolized Prussia and therefore pulled Russia out of the 7 Years' War.

Who was Peter III?

500

The Church agreed that they would never recover their lost land from the revolution, according to this document. 

What was the Concordat of 1801?

500

This is often viewed as the most radical of the changes during the French Revolution.

What was dechristianization?