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goverment run public schools
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Lycee
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Concert of Europe
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a series of alliances the ensured the european nations would help one another if any reolution broke out
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Holly Alliance
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an agreement of Russia, Austria, & Prussia to act with Christian principals against revolutionaries.
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Continental System
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napolean's policy of using a blockade to isolate great britan from all other european nations
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Klemens von Metternich
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The austrian foreign minister who distrusted the democratic ideals of the french revolution.
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Coup d' etat
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napoleon's seizure of power in france in 1799, a sudden overthro of goverment
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Napoleonic Code
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a comprehensive system of laws that eliminated many injusticed and gave france a uniform set of laws
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waterloo
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The site of napoleon's defeat by british and prussian armies in 1815. which ended his last bid for power
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Congress of Vienna
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the meetings that set policies to promote security and stability in europe after napoleon's defeat
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concordat
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an agreement, such as the one in which napoleon and the pope agreed to change the church state relationship.
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blockade
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a forcible closing of ports to end trade between nations
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Battle of Trafalgar
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a major battle that was lost by napoleon.
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plebiscite
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a vote of the people
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legitimacy
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the principal under which the ruling royal families driven their thrones by napoleon should be restored
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napoleon bonaparte
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the leader of a free republic that started as a genral and ended up as the ruler
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balance of power
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in which no 1 nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
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Hundred Days
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ended napoloen's last bid for power
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scorched-earth ploicy
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burning grainfeild and killing live stock so the enemy had nothing to eat
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guerilla
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band of spanish peasant fighters
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Peninsular War
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napolean lost about 300,00 ment at this war
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