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48 Cards in this Set
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Mazarin
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A young Cardinal who ruled for Louis 14th while he was a child
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Louis XIV (14th)
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Ruled for over 70 years
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Sun King
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What was Louis XIV known as because of his symbol as a sun?
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" I am the state" (L'etat c'est moi)
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What did Louis XIV say as being the epitome of an absolute ruler?
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Bureacracy
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government of men who sit at desks established by Louis XIV
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Palace of versallies
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A palace to keep the aristocracy (nobles) occupied
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Jean Baptiste colbert
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Minister of finance who mobilized the countries economic resources
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Samuel De champlain
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Known as the father of new france and founded the first permanent French colony in america
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Qubec
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the first permanent French colony in america
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Robert Cavalier de la Salle
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Mississippi river
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League of Augsburg
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A league set up against french
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War of the league of augsburg
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War that broke out against french
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Treaty of ryswick
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Treaty that ended the war of the league of augsburg
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War of the spanish succession
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War against grandson and grandpa
Spain and england |
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Battle of bleinheim
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battle while the war of the spanish succession
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Treaty of urtech
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treaty that ended the war of the spanish succession
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Age of enlightment
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A movement that attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of mans life in order to establish a new social order
(Darkest age) |
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Voltiare
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The father of enlightment
Proposed rationalism |
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Rationalism
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mans reason is the sole critetion for truth
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The father of french romantisism
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Romantisism
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man is naturally good but society is bad
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Denis Didreot
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Encyclopedia editor
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Louis XV
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French king who said "Apres moi le deluge" ("After me the deluge")
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clergy
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made up the "First Estate"
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nobility
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made up the "Second Estate"
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Tennis Court Oath
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oath in which the National Assembly vowed to continue meeting until a national constitution had been written
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July 14, 1789
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date when the Bastille was stormed
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August 4th degrees
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Gave the lords to collect taxes from peseants
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Jacobin Club
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radical French club who met in a monastery
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Right
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conservative side of the Constituent Assembly
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Left
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radical side of the Constituent Assembly
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Center
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side of the Constituent Assembly without set principles
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Robespierre
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prominent and influential member of the Jacobin Club and leader of the Committee of Public Safety
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guillotine
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a device for chopping off human heads
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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powerful French leader born in Corsica who conquered much of Europe for the French
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"Code Napoleon"
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Napoleon's law codes
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Battle of Trafalgar
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naval battle in which the British navy destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet
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Lord Horatio Nelson
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the greatest naval hero the world has ever known
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Battle of Austerlitz
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the greatest victory of Napoleon's career
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Marie Louise
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Napoleon's second wife (18 years old)
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Czar Alexander I
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Russian leader who withdrew his country from the Continental System
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Battle of Leipzig
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"Battle of Nations" in which the combined forces of Europe defeated Napoleon's new army
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Elba
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first island to which Napoleon was executed
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Waterloo
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city in Belgium where Napoleon met his final defeat
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Duke of Wellington
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British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
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St. Helena
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final island to which Napoleon was executed
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1815
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date at which Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo
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