Study Guide 4 Flashcards
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Voltaire
Believed there should be a separation between church and state
Thomas Hobbes
Believed people were naturally evil and that the government and that the government should rise up to take care of the good people.
Montesquieu
Believed that the government should be split into 3 section
John Loque
Believed that people were born with natural rights and it was the government job to protect them
Rousseau
Believe people and government had a social contract
Belief that Kings received their power from God
Divine of rights
Person that took lead during the revolution
Robespierre
A time were a bunch of people were being killed by the guillotine
Reign of terror
Last king of France
Louis XVI
Last queen of France
Maria Antoinette
A time period when the king was taken off the thrown and people question how France was being ran
French Revolution
Contraption that chopped people’s heads off
Guillotine
Who was safe during the reign of terror
No one
What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peace time
- He set up government-run public schools
- he set up a comprehensive system of laws
- He established a fairer tax code
Isaac Newton explained the
Law of universal gravitation
What concept was the belief in divine right used to support
Absolute rule
During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, which of the following groups suffered the greatest loss of power
The serfs
Why did Peter the Great build the city of St.Petersburg
He wanted a city on a seaport that would make it easier to travel to the west
Which group imposed the Reign of Terror
The Committee of Public Safety
What is the correct sequence used in a scientific process
Observation, question, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion
What was the law of universal gravitational
All physical objects are affected equally by the same force
What was Napoleon’s last defeat as emperor of France
Waterloo
Who was the first Russian ruler to claim the title “Czar”
Ivan the Terrible
What was Peter the Great’s main goal while ruling Russia
Expanding Russia to the east