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Absolutism, Enlighte
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute monarch | kings or queens who held all of the power within their states’ boundaries. |
| Divine right | idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God’s representative on earth. |
| Huguenots | French protestants. |
| Intendents | Government agents used by Louis XIV who collected taxes and administered justice. |
| Edict of Nantes | Declaration made by Henry of Navarre of France allowing Huguenots freedom to worship in France. |
| Scientific Revolution | a major change in European thought, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. |
| Geocentric theory | Theory that the earth is the center of the universe. |
| Heliocentric Theory | Idea that the sun is at the center of the solar system. |
| Scientific method | logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas. |
| Reign of Terror | period from 1793-1794 when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
| Napoleonic Code | a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon. |
| Battle of Trafalgar | an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by a British fleet under command of Horatio Nelson. |
| Continental System | Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe intended to destroy Great Britain’s economy. |
| Peninsular War | a conflict in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon’s French troops out of Spain. |
| Scorched-earth policy | the practice of buring crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land. |