A type of government where people decide on policies without any intermediary or representative.
What is Direct Democracy?
The First Emperor of China.
Who is Qin Shuangdi?
The principle that the Earth revolves around the sun.
What is heliocentrism?
When did the French Revolution begin?
What is 1789?
What is the 95 Theses?
Rule by a small, elite group.
What is an oligarchy?
Kanuni or "Law Giver"
Who is Suleyman the Magnificent?
The principle that political power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
Louis XVI called the meeting of this group to address France's economic crisis.
What is the Estates General?
This 1789 document established France as a republic and codified individuals' rights and liberties.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
A type of government where people elect representatives to vote on policies and issues for them.
What is Indirect Democracy?
He proved Copernicus' theory of heliocentrism.
The principle that people give up some of their natural rights to a government in exchange for protection of those rights.
What is the social contract?
Anyone who was not a noble or a member of the clergy was part of this socioeconomic group.
What is the Third Estate?
Louis XIV rescinded religious freedoms for Protestants and other non-Catholics with this 1687 document.
What is the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes?
Rule by one, royal person.
What is a monarchy?
He established the first democracy in Athens.
Who is Cleisthenes?
The English philosopher whose "Second Treatise of Government" (1689) revolutionized the way people conceived the relationship between government and society.
Who is John Locke?
The bloodiest period in France's revolutionary history, in which 30,000 people were executed by guillotine.
The Reign of Terror
This 1689 document protected the power of Parliament to rule with the English monarch, as well as individual rights and liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Rule by one person with absolute power, usually with domineering, oppressive, or strict control.
What is autocracy?
They overthrew James II and took over as monarchs of England.
Who is William and Mary?
What are natural rights?
The first official act of the French Revolution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This 1687 document written by James II protected the freedom of worship for Catholics and other religious minority groups in England and was one of the causes of the Glorious Revolution.
What is the Declaration of Indulgences?