Absolutism to the Fall of Napoleon Vocab Review

Ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people he or she governs.

• Prime Minister
• Limited Monarch
• Absolute Monarch
• Liberalism

An English writer who believed that all humans had certain natural rights.

He wrote the Two Treatises of Government which outlined those rights, live, liberty and property

• John Locke

• Catherine the Great

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong.

• Divine Right
• Coup d'etat
• Autonomy
• Balance of Power

The middle class

• Monarchy
• Bourgeoisie
• Suffrage
• Autonomy

Right to vote

• Autonomy
• Divine Rights
• Natural Rights
• Suffrage

German born ruler of an efficient autocratic Russian Government, she expanded the South to gian warm water ports

• Catherine the Great

• Von Bismark

• Garibaldi

• Voltaire

A violent revolt by a small group intended to overthrow a government.

• natural right

• divine right

• Coup d'etat

• nationalism

Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos.

• Divine Right
• Social Contract
• Liberalism
• Nationalism

French document modeled after the American Declaration of Independence, it stated that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights"

• Social Contract
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• Natural Rigths
• National Assembly

Period in France between July 1793 to July 1794 where as many as 40,000 people were killed.

• Enlightenment 
• Nationalism
• Reign of Terror
• Voltaire