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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute monarch | Absolute monarch:kings or queens who held all of the power within their states’ boundaries. |
| Divine right | Divine right:idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God’s representative on earth. |
| Huguenots | Huguenots:French protestants. |
| Edict of Nantes | Edict of Nantes:Declaration made by Henry of Navarre of France allowing Huguenots freedom to worship in France. |
| Intendents | Intendents:Government agents used by Louis XIV who collected taxes and administered justice. |
| Scientific Revolution | 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 | Geocentric theory:Theory that the earth is the center of the universe. |
| Heliocentric Theory | Heliocentric Theory:Idea that the sun is at the center of the solar system. |
| Scientific method | Scientific method:logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas. |
| Enlightenment | Enlightenment:intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems. |
| Philosophe | Philosophe:social critics or philosophers from France. |
| Social contract | Social contract:Idea from Thomas Hobbes that suggested all humas are naturally selfish and wicked and must had over their rights to a strong ruler to create/run their government. |
| Estate | Estate:social classes of France. 1st Estate: Church leaders. 2nd estate: rich nobles. 3rd estate: 97% of the people. |
| Tennis Court Oath | Tennis Court Oath:a pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. |
| National Assembly | National Assembly:a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
| Estates-General | Estates-General:Gathering of all three estates of France called by the king. |
| Great Fear | Great Fear:a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. |
| Bastille | Bastille:French prison torn down in the early days of the French Revolution. |
| Jacobins | Jacobins:radical political party during the French Revolution |
| Guillotine | Guillotine:a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution. |
| Reign of Terror | 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 | Napoleonic Code:a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon. |
| Battle of Trafalgar | 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 | Continental System:Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe intended to destroy Great Britain’s economy. |
| Peninsular War | 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 | Scorched-earth policy:the practice of buring crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land. |