World history midterm

a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly

• Enlightenment

• French Revolution

• Battle of Waterloo (1815)

• Congress of Vienna

17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Louis XVI

• Maximillian Robespierre (1758-1794)

believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Louis XVI

• Karl Marx

King of France during the French Revolution

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Louis XVI

• Maximillian Robespierre

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.

• Maximillian Robespierre (1758-1794)

• Napoleon

• Napoleanic Code, 1804

• Louis XVI

Self-made Emperor of France he led reforms, built an empire, but then lost it.

• Battle of Waterloo (1815)

• Napoleon

• Otto von Bismarck

• Karl Marx

-law code for civil laws- dealt with equality, marriage, divorce, ect.
-also series of other laws in other parts of Europe
-gave women 2nd citizenship- didn't get the right to their own checking account until 1950s

• Louis XVI

• Maximillian Robespierre (1758-1794)

• Louis XVI

• Napoleanic Code, 1804

After Napoleon escapes Elba from 100 days, he rallies his troops for one last battle. It was against the seventh coalition of Prussian and British forces. Blucher of Prussia arrived just in time to doom Napoleons army. Napoleon is given to the British and they send him to exile on St. Helena in the middle of nowhere 1500 miles away from Brazil

• Battle of Waterloo (1815)

• Congress of Vienna

• Capitalism

• Unification of Germany

(1814-1815 CE) Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon.

• Congress of Vienna

• Capitalism

• Otto von Bismarck

• Unification of Germany

Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.

• Scramble for Africa

• Guillotine

• Nationalism

• Karl Marx