Old Europe; New Ideas
Enlightenment
Enlightenment Philosophers
Geography
French Revolution
100
From the mid 16 to the 18th century, Europe experienced many of these violent conflicts, which eventually led people to question principles such as absolute truth and how a person can have certainty about their knowledge.
What were Wars of Religion?
100
Enlightenment thinkers were dedicated to this concept - the creation of better human societies and better people.
What is progress?
100
This Enlightenment philosopher believed that all people are born with "natural rights," which included the right to life, liberty, and property. His ideas had a significant impact on the American Revolution and how we think about human rights today.
Who is John Locke?
100
This body of water 
This cultural and intellectual movement, focused on reason, individualism, equality, and liberty, explains (in part) why American colonists rebelled against British rule for independence during the American Revolution.
What is the North Sea?
100
This was the radical phase of the French Revolution, where people were publicly executed for political reasons. During this period, people feared persecution from secret spies.
What is the Reign of Terror?
200
Form of government in which the monarchy is subordinate to law and a legislative body is established to check the power of the monarchy.
What is Constitutional Monarchy?
200
****DOUBLE JEOPARDY****
(note there is a double answer also)
Enlightenment ideas developed during discussions amongst the intellectual, urban elite, known as ______ that famously took place in this setting.
What were philosophes meeting in Parisian salons?
200
This Enlightenment philosopher supported women’s rights and equality. She was particularly focused on women’s education and economic independence.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
200
This mountain range 
What are the Pyrenees?
200
When the members of the Third Estate found themselves forcibly prevented from meeting as the National Assembly in June of 1789, they met here and vowed not to disband until they had drafted a constititution
What is a tennis court?
300
This brought new contact with distant lands and introduced new questions into fixed European ideas.
What is the Age of Discovery?
300
The Enlightenment marked the end of the dominance of Aristotelean ideas about how a person can know and develop certitude about their knowledge. This branch of philosophy, which studies how we know and how we can be sure that our knowledge reflects reality, is called this
What is epistemology?
300
This French philosophe believed that the ruler must seek the common good and that the legitimacy of rule came from popular sovereignty, or the will of the governened.
Who was Jean Jacques Rousseau?
300
This country. 
What are the Papal States?
300
The king and queen found themselves imprisoned here after being brought back to Paris from Varennes
What is the Palace of the Tuileries?
400
This new literary genre, from the French for "to try" developed in the sixteenth century and encouraged writing as a mode for self-discovery and elevated the importance of the individual and his personal experience.
What is the essay?
400
This so-called enlightened despot of Russia came to power through a coup against her own husband and pursued policies that garnered her popularity amongst nobles (no more forced military service!) and serfs (can appeal to the courts if mistreated!).
Who was Catherine the Great?
400
This Enlightenment philosopher believed in the separation of powers, which greatly influenced the formation of modern democratic governments.
Who is Montesquieu?
400
This longest river in Europe. 
What is the Danube?
400
This cleric wrote "What is the Third Estate?" a pamphlet that galvanized members of the Third Estate going into the Estates General meeting of 1789.
Who was Abbe Sieyes?
500
The for of government that defined "Old Europe" and the Ancien Regime, it permitted no check on the power of the monarch: The king made the laws, he meted out justice, he was the sole executive.
What is absolute monarchy (or absolutism)?
500
The Enlightenment idea that people give consent to be governed, and the government agrees to protect people’s rights and property. This replaced "Divine Right" as the source of legitimate power for a head of state.
What is the social contract?
500
This Enlightenment thinker was an influential advisor at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia and a proponent of freedom of speech and the press.
What was Voltaire?
500
This kingdom?
What is the Austria-Hungary?
500
In this phase of the Revolution, a group of moderates sought to rid government of the radical Jacobins and re-establish a more conservative political order.
What is the Thermidorian Reaction?