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Science
The Enlightenment
The French Revolution
Napoleon
Industrial Revolution
100
He used a new invention, the telescope, to make astronomical observations.
Who was Galileo?
100
He criticized traditional religion and advocated religious toleration in his many books.
Who was Voltaire?
100
On July 14, 1789, the common people of Paris attacked this prison and freed the few political prisoners held there.
What is the Bastille?
100
This military technology was not invented by Napoleon, but he used it to great effect against his enemies.
What was artillery?
100
This invention transformed transportation in Britain and then Europe.
What was the railroad?
200
He wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres but published the book shortly before his death.
Who was Copernicus?
200
He advocated a laissez-faire, or free market, economic system.
Who was Adam Smith?
200
The statement created by the National assembly that affirmed the equality of men and said that people have inherent human rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
200
Napoleon’s final battle, in which he was defeated by a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington.
What was Waterloo?
200
This 1833 act of Parliament limited child labor and other abuses of workers.
What was the Factory Act?
300
He came up with 3 laws of planetary motion that describe the movement of the planets around the sun.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
300
A favorite concept of the Enlightenment thinkers, this word implies the application of scientific methods to understanding life.
What is reason?
300
When Louis XVI wanted to tax the privileged classes, he had to call this meeting.
What is an Estates General?
300
A monument in Paris, commemorating the French victories over Austria and Prussia.
What is the Arc de Triomphe?
300
This charitable organization helped sailors, dockworkers, and factory workers.
What was the Salvation Army?
400
A model of the universe in which the earth revolves around the sun.
What is a heliocentric conception?
400
She wrote a book, Vindication of the Rights of Women, defending equality for women.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
The political term for the commoners in France – the majority of the population.
What is the Third Estate?
400
The set of laws tried to balance the rights of the individual and the rights of society, but took away many important rights from women.
What was the Code Napoleon?
400
These people imagined an ideal society where everyone was equal, no one was poor, and property was owned in common.
Who were the Utopian Socialists?
500
The book that changed European concepts of the universe.
What was The Starry Messenger?
500
He wrote a 28-volume encyclopedia that spread the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Who was Diderot?
500
Common people who proudly wore the clothing of workers to symbolize their opposition to the aristocracy and the Old Regime.
Who were the sans-culottes?
500
Born and raised in the Caribbean, this woman was married to Napoleon, but he divorced her when she did not have children.
Who was Josephine?
500
This 18th century writer believed that there would always be too many poor people and not enough food, so starvation was inevitable.
Who was Thomas Malthus?