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He formulated the laws of gravitation and motion as well as discovering calculus.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
An action or event that greatly changes the status quo.
What is a revolution?
This term describes the pre-revolutionary government of France.
What is the Old Regime?
This legal system was put in place to help create a universal law code for all of France.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This Spanish monarch was on the throne when the Spanish Armada attacked England.
Who is Philip II?
His 'scientific method' became one of the most important parts of both scientific and philosophical thinking in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
A war fought between Britain and Prussia on one side and France, Austria, and Russia on the other.
What is the Seven Years War?
This group of representatives was the legislative body that represented all of the people of France - even if they were very unequal in doing so.
What is the Estates General?
These schools were created to help train future government officials for France.
What are lycees?
This Sun King was the very model of a French absolutist.
Who is Louis XIV?
Science was also known by this name during the 17th and 18th century - a clear link to why so many of the same principals were upheld by the philosophes.
What is natural philosophy?
This philosophical concept is also known as a 'blank slate'.
What is tabula rasa?
Robespierre's time as the leader of the Committee for Public Safety was known as the Reign of what?
What is Terror?
What is the Directorate?
This shadow-heavy, intricate style of art was beloved by absolutist rulers.
What is baroque?
He was put on trial for heresy by the Catholic Church for helping to further cement the model of the heliocentric solar system.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This large tool was used to behead 'enemies of the Revolution' during the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
He was King of France before the Revolution and his execution kicked off the Reign of Terror.
Who is Louis XVI?
After his exile to Elba, Napoleon returned to France to reign for how many days?
What is one hundred?
The king of this central European nation tried to establish Enlightened ideals - and failed miserably.
What is Austria?
This philosophical thought therefore he was, but he's also known for being the mind behind the concept of deductive reasoning.
Who is Renee Descartes?
A period of time in which individuals sought to use rational thought and experimentation to define the world around them.
What is the Enlightenment?
She was the Queen of France before the Revolution?
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Napoleon was born on this Italian island.
What is Corsica?
The Russian queen said she loved the ideals of the Enlightenment, but was still a very absolutist monarch.
Who is Catherine the Great?