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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jacobins | Led by Maximilian Robespierre, member of a radical political club during the French Revolution |
| Civil Code | Established by Naolpeon, Promoted a society where individuals qualified for education through talent and protected private property |
| Directory | Group of conservative men of property that seized power and ruled france, unable to reolve economic and military problems, came to end when Napoleon seized power in November 1799 |
| Peninsulares | Member of highest social class, dominated Latin America political and social life, Pure Spanish Blood |
| Conservtism | Political orienttion advocating the preservation of the best in society and preventing radical change |
| Liberalism | took change as normal and welcomed it as an agent of progress |
| Zionism | Political movement that holds Jewish people constitute a nation and have a right to their own homeland in Palestine |
| Congess of Vienna | An international conference 1814-1815 led by Klemens von Metternich that settled territory issues and restored power of crowned heads of Europe |
| Marshals | Important and trusted military commanders |
| Buffer States | States that separate ambitious powers from one another and protect them from each other's aggression |
| Cantons | group of small states in Switzerland that were largely self-governing and traditionally left alone by the popes and other surrounding rulers |
| Hadsburgs | Imperial family of Austria, officially the house of Hadsburg- Lorraine after 1745 |
| Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Diet | the governing council of the German Confederation |
| Prince Regent | Person ruling a country when the king or Queen is unable to rule because they are too ill |
| Catholic/Orthodox/ | these represent different groups within the Christian Faith, Roman Catholics believed the pope to be gods representative on earth, Orthodox/ Christian regarded the star of Russian as their Earthly leader |
| Protestant | broke away from the church and believe in direct individual communication with god |