Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was a political movement that began to challenge the idea of which type of leader?
Absolute Monarchs
What caused financial strain leading to the French Revolution
Lost a war
Massive overspending by the King and Queen
Loans
Poor taxing strategies
French king and queen who ruled france prior to and during the French Revolution
Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette
Napoleon is considered one of the best if not the best what of all time.
General or Military leader
This Enlightenment philosopher says people are at their core: evil, selfish, and stupid, we also need a strong leader to keep us all in check.
Thomas Hobbes
Which of the Three Estates did members of the Nobility belong to prior to the revolution?
Second
The national razor. This execution device was used to execute over 50,000 people by beheading during the French Revolution.
The Guillotine
The word for a group of nations coming together to attack and defeat a common enemy
Coalition
This Enlightenment philosopher believed that every human was born with 3 natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
Which of the Three Estates did 97 percent of the 27 million French people belong to prior to the revolution?
The time period when the Jacobins ruled France after the death of the King and Queen, that beheadings and fear were at their highest levels
The reign of terror
Napoleon's invasion of what country is considered to be the beginning of the end control of France.
Russia
This Enlightenment philosopher believed that the government should be split into multiple branches, so that one branch does not get too powerful.
Baron de Montesquieu
Which of the Three Estates did members of the Church belong to prior to the revolution?
1st
The storming of this prison on July 14th, 1789, is considered the beginning of the French Revolution
The Bastille
What made Napoleon's victories in battle so impressive?
He was often outnumbered.
How badly he beat most of his enemies
His battle record of 148-2
This Enlightenment philosopher believed that the government and the people enter into a social contract and if the government breaks that contract, the people have the right to rebel and make a new government.
Jean Jasque Rosseau
What advisory body did the King of France call to fix the economic issues of France.
The estates general
Leader of the Jacobins, this former lawyer was determined to find all of the traitors during the French Revolution. In the end though, he became the monster he sought to destroy.
Maximillian Robespierre
Name either battle we studied in this class with regards to Napoleon.
Battle 1 - December 1805, Napoleon defeats a combined army of Austrians and Russians by trapping them over a frozen lake.
Battle 2 - September 7th, 1812, Napoleon wins a hard-fought victory over the Russians in the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars and captures Moscow.
Austerlitz
Borodino