McCoy World History Semester 1
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- King of France in the 1770-80's
- Louis XVI
- An intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems
- Enlightenment
- Social and political system of France in the 1770's
- Estate
- Between 1300-1600 when Europe experienced an explosion of creativity in art and wirting
- Renaissance
- At the time of the French Revolution 97% of France's population belonged to this
- Third Estate
- A sudden, forceful seizure of governmental control
- coup d'etat
- Europeans' main motives for making voyages of exploration was to grow wealth and spread__________
- Christianity
- An important goal of the Congress of Vienna was to establish a balance of power in _______
- Europe
- Willingness of people to hand over their rights to a ruler in exchange for law and order in society
- Social Contract
- Japan instituted this policy to control the influx of foreign ideas into the contry
- Closed Country
- He captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa
- Bartholomew Diez
- These were christians who were members of non-catholic churches
- Protistants
- A famous prison in Paris
- Vastille
- On this day, July 14, a mob stormed a French prison looking for gunpowder to ignite the French Revolution
- Bastille Day
- A new way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs
- Scientific Revolution
- A French philosophe who promoted freedom of speech
- Voltaire
- The purpose of this was to decrease conflict between Spain and Portugal over the acquisition of new lands
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- He led the Protestant Reformation
- Martin Luthar
- Extravagant wife of Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette
- Discovered the Law of Gravity
- Isaac Newton
- French writer who proposed ideas of separation of powers, and checks and balances in the government
- Montisque
- Worldly, non-spiritual
- Secular
- A person who holds beliefs that differ from official Church teachings
- Heteric
- This was Thomas More's ideal society
- Utopia
- A government of the people
- Republic
- A government ruled by a king or queen
- Monarchy
- A series of meetings of European powers to ensure the security and stability of a new European order after Napoleon's defeat
- Congress of Vienna
- Before the Revolution, members of the Third Estate paid a disproportionate balance of these to the government of France
- Taxes
- He is credited with conquering the Aztec empire
- Fernando Cortez
- This was supposed to release a sinner from the penalty that a priest imposed for sins
- Indulgent
- English philosopher who proposed that a governments power came from the consent of the citizens and that citizens have the right to rebel against unjust rulers
- John Locke
- American Colonists protested this taxation without representation
- Stamp Act
- Native language
- Vernacular
- Christopher Columbus first landed on an island in this sea
- Carribean
- Slavery in African and Muslim societies differed from slavery in the Americas because slavery in the Americas was based on heredity and ________
- race