Modern scientists believe that the Black Death was actually caused by this illness.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
100
The Enlightenment grew out of the questioning mindset of this previous revolution?
What was the Scientific Revolution?
100
The person held absolute authority over all of society.
Who was the monarch (the king)?
100
This group was created out of the Third Estate.
What was the National Assembly of France?
100
The disputed execution of this man triggered the Reign of Terror.
Who was King Louis XVI?
200
The Black Death was transmitted through this common pest.
What is the flea?
200
He believed that no single person should hold absolute power.
Who was Charles-Louis de Secondat, le Baron de Montisqieu?
200
This estate was subdivided into two smaller groups, the higher and the lower.
What was the First Estate?
200
This early constitution was passed in August of 1789.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man & the Citizen?
200
This shady organization was created by the National Convention.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
300
A lack of protection from the Black Death caused a decreased in the absolute authority of this institution.
What is the Holy Roman Catholic Church?
300
He believed that Man was too selfish to be trusted to rule themselves?
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
300
The Bourgeois, wealthy merchants, found themselves in this estate.
What was the Third Estate?
300
These laws abolished the Estates system.
What were the August Decrees?
300
The killing of this upstart newspaper publisher was immortalized in a famous painting by Jacques-Louis David. The killing elevated the publisher to near-Christ-like status.
What was Jean-Paul Marat?
400
The plague was brought from Asia by this empire.
What was the Golden Horde (the Mongols)?
400
He believed that freedom was given to Man by nature of being born and that he only gives up freedom to gain protection from others. Ultimately, power comes from the people.
Who was John Locke?
400
These two crises crippled France in the late 1780s.
What was debt and famine?
400
The Maquis de Lafayette once again found himself in the center of history as he briefly organized the defense of the royal palace against this historical event.
What was the Women's March on Versailles?
400
This was the rate that people were executed during the height of the Terror.
What was approximately 800 per month?
500
This economic development changed the way the average person lived in Europe, especially England.
What was higher wages for commoners?
500
This was the main political philosophy advanced by Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The Estates General was convened in this town.
What was Versailles?
500
This is where the royal family was placed under house arrest for almost two years.
What was the Tuileries?
500
Maximilian Robespierre suffered this wound the day before he was executed by the guillotine.
What was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the jaw?