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Louis XVI
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Ruler of France during French Revolution, oblivious to the third estate, lots of financial problems because he sent most of the army to america to fight the british. was later killed by the guillotine
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Marie Antoinette
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Wife of Louis XVI, didn't care about the third estate, had very extravagant clothes, partially led to financial probelmes
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Ruchelieu
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A cardinal and later King Louis XVI's Chief Minister
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Jacques Necker
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Louis XVI's Financial advisor, Louis Fired him because he was too popular with the people and Louis wasnt
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Cahier de Doleance
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the lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France, between March and April 1789, ordered By Louis XVI, to give each of the Estates the chance to express their hopes and grievances directly to the King
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National Assembly
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Secularization of the Church
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Execution of Robespierre
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Robespierre was elected to lead the comittee of public safety and in turn he arrested all the people against the revolution and executed them, later he was arrested and executed as well
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The National Convention
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Was the legislative body in France during the revolution,
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Oath of the Tennis Court
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The third estate was banned from the estates general and those members who werre banned created an oath no to leave the "tennis court" until a constitution was created
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Louis XVI calls the estates General
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Attack of the Bastille
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When most of the third estate stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and destroyed the prison/arsenal. This also started the French Revolution
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Metternich
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He was a major figure in the negotiations before and during the Congress of Vienna. A Gernam-Austrian Politician
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National Assembly Declares war on Austria and Prussia
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In April 1792, the French Legislative Assembly declared war against the King of Hungary and Bohemia,
for plotting aggression. They declared war in the name of the French nation in defence of liberty.
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Napoleon Crowned Emperor
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Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2nd, 1804. He believed that his military tactics and ruthlessness was neccessary for the country to survive.
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Congress of Vienna
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was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November, 1814 to June, 1815. Its objective was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. This objective resulted in the redrawing of the continent's political map, establish the boundaries of France.
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The Great Fear
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occurred from July 20 to August 5, 1789 in France at the start of the French Revolution. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and the grain supplies were now guarded by local militias as bands of vagrants roamed the countryside. Rumors spread among the peasantry that nobles had hired these vagrants to prey on villages and protect the new harvest from the peasants.peasants armed themselves in self-defense against the imaginary marauders and attacked manor houses
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March On Versailles
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The women of Paris marched to Versailles on October 15, 1789 in order to take the king by weapons and get back all the grain that was being kept from them
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Declaration of the Rights of Women
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The terror
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Levee en Masse
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Central to the understanding of the Levée is the idea that the new political rights given to the mass of the French people. also ble-bodied men to defend the nation
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The Continental System
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Execution of Louis Capet
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On october 1st 1791 Louis XVI or Capet was executed by guillotine during the reign of terror. He was executed mainly because of the colossal financial problems that he created
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Execution of the Rebels on 3rd of May 1808
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Oration On the Dignity of Man
By Pico Della Mirandola
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Man is wonderful, he is perfect. Man can do whatever he wants to do. man is there to look at God's beauty
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On the Misery of the Human Condition
By Lothario dei Segni AKA Pope InnocentIII
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Man is worthless and humans are born to toil and give tithe to the church
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The Prince
By Niccolo Machiavelli
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Leaders have to be both cunning and ruthless, like a Lion and like a fox
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Luther and the "robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants"
By Martin Luther
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The English Bill of Rights
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Natural rights to men, life liberty and property
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Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina 1614
By Galileo
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Galileo got arrested by the church because he used to prove that god was real but the catholic church didnt want that.
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On Crime and Punishment
By Beccaria
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Believed that torture was a way to receive information and to scare others into doing the right thing.
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The Evils of Slavery
By Condorcet
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The Second Treatise on Government
By John Locke
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people have natural rights and that means that they should have the power to oversee the government. favored a constitutional monarchy.
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The Social Contract
By Rousseau
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Of the Constitution of England
By Montesquieu
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Vindication of the Rights of Women
By Mary Wollstonecraft
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the female Citizen
By De Gouges
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Speech on Revolutionary Government
By Robespierre
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Plight of the French Peasants
By Young
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Grievances of the Third Estate
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Napoleonic Code
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napoleon: Savior
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Napoleon: Destroyer
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