Power and Politics
He was known as the “Sun King” and claimed absolute power in France.
Who is Louis XIV?
Thinkers of the Enlightenment were known by this French term.
Who are philosophes?
The social class system in pre-revolutionary France was known as this.
What is the Old Regime?
He became emperor of France in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This meeting in 1815 sought to restore order and stability to Europe after Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This idea stated that a ruler’s authority came directly from God.
What is divine right?
John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government argued that government’s purpose was to protect these.
What are natural rights?
Members of the Third Estate took this oath when locked out of their meeting hall.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This set of laws embodied many Enlightenment ideals but limited women’s rights.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This Austrian foreign minister dominated the Congress of Vienna.
Who is Prince Metternich?
The Stuart kings clashed with Parliament in this country.
What is England?
Montesquieu’s most famous work that proposed dividing government powers.
What is The Spirit of the Laws?
The storming of this fortress became a symbol of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
A disastrous 1812 invasion of this country marked the beginning of the French emperor's downfall.
What is Russia?
The principle of restoring hereditary monarchies was called this.
What is legitimacy?
This French royal official collected taxes and carried out policies under Louis XIV.
What is an intendant?
Denis Diderot compiled Enlightenment knowledge into this multi-volume work.
What is the Encyclopédie?
This moderate phase of the Revolution produced the 1791 Constitution and a limited monarchy.
What is the National Assembly?
This policy involved burning crops and villages to keep them from enemy use.
What is the scorched-earth policy?
The arrangement that prevented any one European nation from dominating others.
What is the balance of power?
This English monarch was executed during the English Civil War.
Who is Charles I?
This economist promoted laissez-faire principles in The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
The radical political club that gained power during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Jacobin Club?
The French emperor was finally defeated in 1815 at this battle.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
The French king restored to the throne after Napoleon’s fall.
Who is Louis XVIII?