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World History Vocab
Enlightenment and Revolutions Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles I | King of England; executed by Oliver Cromwell |
| Charles II | Restored as King of England in 1646 |
| Cavaliers | group that supported Charles I in English Revolution |
| Roundheads | group that supported Parliament and Cromwell in English revolution |
| Puritans | religious group that opposed King Charles I |
| Oliver Cromwell | leader of Parliament and the Roundheads; made dictator of England |
| Glorious Revolution | bloodless installment of William and Mary as monarchs of England |
| William and Mary | became monarchs of England in 1688 |
| John Locke | English Enlightened philosopher; developed Social Contract theory of Government |
| Thomas Hobbes | English Enlightened philosopher; believed in a strong central government |
| Leviathan | book written by Thomas Hobbes |
| Two Treaties on Government | book by John Locke on government structure |
| Divine Right of Kings | belief by absolute monarchs that God had chosen them to rule |
| Absolute Rulers | monarchs that had total authority in their countries |
| English Bill of Rights | signed by William and Mary; gave Parliament ultimate control in England |
| Philosophe | Enlightenment philosophers in France |
| Enlightenment | movement begun n France; logic and reason could solve societal problems |
| Isaac Newton | Enlightened scientist; developed theory and laws of gravity |
| Denis Dedirot | wrote the first Encyclopedia |
| Thomas Jefferson | American founding father; wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Enlightened philosopher who preached on the separation of powers |
| Adam Smith | developed the idea of "laissez-faire" economics |
| Voltaire | French Enlightened philosophe; often criticized the Catholic Church |
| Adam Montesquieu | Enlightened philsophe who preached three branches of government |
| Louis XVI | absolute ruler of France in the early 1600's; the "Sun" King |
| Old Regime | social structure in France before 1789; made up of three estates |
| Robespierre | leader of the Reign of Terror phase of the French Revoluation |
| Reign of Terror | murderous phase of the French Revolution in 1793 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | became emperor of France in 1804 |
| Marie Antoinette | queen of France at the time of the French Revolution |
| Great Fear | wave of panic that swept the French peasants during the French Revolution |
| Waterloo | place in Belgium that was Napoleon's final defeat |
| Continental System | disasterous economic policy of Napoleon |
| Bastille | French armory; rebellion here began the French Revolution |
| Peninsulares | upper class in Latin American society; people born in Spain |
| Creoles | sons and daughters born in Latin American of the Peninsulares |
| Mestizos | people of Spanish and Latin American Indian descent |
| Caudillo | Latin American military dictators |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of the Haitian Revolution |
| Bolivar | leader of the revolution in Columbia |
| San Martin | leader of the revolution in Argentina |
| Dom Pedro | Mexican Revolutionary leader |
| Hidalgo | priest who helped begin the revolution in Mexico |
| Taiping Rebellion | (1850-64) Large scale rebellion against the Qing dynasty and the presence of foreigners in China |
| Opium War | war between Britain and China in the 1800's |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Shogun of Japan in the 1600's |
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