Here Comes the Sun (King)
The name of the palace that the Sun King built
What is Versailles?
This invention made by Gutenberg caused more books to be produced, and scientific knowledge to spread.
What is the printing press?
Who was victorious in the siege of Vienna? The Ottoman Turks or Jan Sobieski's Winged Hussars?
Sobieski
Where did the revolutionaries meet to swear that they would change the French government?
At the king's Tennis Courts.
Napoleon's biggest mistake was to invade this country in the winter (you NEVER do that)
What is Russia?
The Sun King had a bit of pride. It is his famous line about how he felt he was essentially France itself!
"The State? I AM the State"
The inventor of a worldwide standard for temperature on the thermometer.
Who is Fahrenheit?
This Muslim group dominated most of Eastern Europe before the Siege of Vienna.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
The Committee of Public Safety used this weapon, which beheaded victims quickly.
What is the guillotine?
This was the name given to all the conquests of Napolean.
What is the French Empire?
Another name for manners that you would use at the Sun King's residence.
What is etiquette?
He was a scientist developing an idea on free fall by dropping two balls from the top of the Tower of Pisa.
Who was Galileo?
This is the land under control of another country.
What is a colony?
She was the wife of Louis XVI
Who was Marie Antoinette?
DAILY DOUBLE. What did Napoleon do at Notre Dame Cathedral that caused everybody to gasp?
He snatched the crown from the pope, and crowned himself.
What did St Louis de Monfort do?
He promoted total consecration to Mary through Jesus
It is what Sir Isaac Newton did.
Came up with the theory of gravity
DAILY DOUBLE. Washington's men met the French at Fort Duquesne in the ________________ Valley.
What is Ohio River?
This is the date that the French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille
What is July 14?
This word means that somebody overthrows a government. (like what Napoleon did to the Five Man Directory)
What is a coup?
The law that the Sun King revoked, causing the Protestant Huguenots to leave France.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
DAILY DOUBLE. He was the inventor of the microscope.
Who was Antonie van Leewenhoek?
What were the terms of the Blood Tax?
Convert to Islam and join the army (for boys 8-18)
He was in charge of France during the Reign of Terror
Napoleon declared himself consul. What does this title mean?
It was the title taken by the leaders of the ancient Romans.