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European Monarchs Ch 21, Ch 22, Ch 23

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Absolute Monarch   A king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society.  
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Edict of Nantes   A 1598 declaration in which the French King Henry IV promised that Protestants could live in Peace in France and could set up houses of worship in some French cities.  
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Boyars   Landowning nobles of Russia.  
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Restoration   The period of Charles II's rule over England, after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell's government.  
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Constitutional Monarchy   A monarchy in which the ruler's power is limited by law.  
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Divine Right   The idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth are therefore answerable only to god.  
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Westerniaztion   An adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western- especially European or American countries.  
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Heliocentric Theory   The idea that earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.  
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Enlightment   In Buddhism, a state of perfect wisdom in which one understands basic truths about the universe.  
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Philosophe   One of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment.  
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Separation of Powers   The assignment of executive, legislative, and judicial powers to different groups of officials in a government.  
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Salon   A social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment.  
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Scientific Method   A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses.  
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Natural Rights   John Locke- the rights of life, liberty, and property.  
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Estates General   Assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.  
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Tennis Court Oath   Pledge made by the members of France's Nation Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.  
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Great Fear   A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of Bastille in 1789.  
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Emigres   People who live their native countries for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings during the French Revolution.  
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Sans Culottes   In the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government.  
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Guillotine   A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.  
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Reign of Terror   Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator, killing normal citizens.  
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Coup Detat   Sudden seizure of political power in a nation.  
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Old Regime   The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.  
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Plebiscite   Direct vote in in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal.  
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Lycee   Government- run public schools in France.  
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Blockade   Use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region.  
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Continental System   Napoleons's policy of preventing trade between Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Britain's economy.  
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Hundred Days   Napoleon becomes emperor again.  
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Congress of Vienna   Series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish long- lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon.  
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Bastille   A fortress in Paris built in the 14th century and used in the 17th–18th centuries as a state prison.  
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Legitimacy   The hereditary right of a monarch to rule.  
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