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This man led a revolt of enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Haiti.
Who is Toussaint L’Overture?
100
Phillip II used the wealth of the Spanish empire to do this.
What is create a large and powerful army?
100
During this time period, philosophers began to promote ideas of liberty, equality and social justice.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This estate was made up of church officials and did not pay taxes.
What is the First Estate?
100
A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
What is the scientific method?
200
This weak ruler was King of France during the French Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
200
This ruler tried to conquer European countries, including Spain.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
200
Galileo believed in the heliocentric theory, which describes this kind of universe.
What is the sun is the center of the universe?
200
Russian boyars are part of this social class.
What is the nobility?
200
This device was used by the French for executions.
What is the guillotine?
300
The death of Charles I was the first time that this had happened to a European monarch.
What is publicly tried and executed?
300
This leader sought to westernize and modernize Russia.
Who is Peter the Great?
300
This philosopher believed that people who were good by nature could rule themselves.
Who is John Locke?
300
These people were born in Latin American to parents who were European.
Who are the creoles?
300
What military strategy did Napoleon use successfully?
What is divide and conquer?
400
This country's revolution was the largest and most successful slave uprising in history.
What is Haiti?
400
Name the document that the French revolutionaries wrote that was inspired by the American Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
400
This scientist/mathematician discovered the laws of gravity.
Who is Newton?
400
This estate embraced the Enlightenment ideas.
What is the Third Estate?
400
During this time period, “enemies” were tried in the morning and guillotined in the afternoon.
What is the Reign of Terror?
500
This event became a symbol of the French Revolution, and the anniversary of this event is celebrated in France each year.
What is the fall of the Bastille prison?
500
This philosopher believed that governments should have separate branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
500
This type of government was supported by a belief in divine right.
What is absolute monarchy?
500
List three ways that Russian landowners treated serfs like property.
What is gave them as gifts, sold serfs with the land, and made it illegal for serfs to run away.
500
Most of the people who were killed during the French Revolution were members of this estate.
What is the Third Estate?