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| 12632167848 | Conservatism | Belief in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society, dislike of change or new ideas in a particular area. | 0 | |
| 12632167849 | Deism | Belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. | 1 | |
| 12632167850 | Romanticism | A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. | 2 | |
| 12632167851 | Nationalism | Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. |  | 3 |
| 12632167852 | Mary Wollstonecraft | An English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. |  | 4 |
| 12632167853 | Voltaire | French writer, playwright, and poet; He was a leading figure of the Enlightenment, and frequently came into conflict with the Establishment as a result of his radical views and satirical writings. |  | 5 |
| 12632167854 | Salons | An assembly of guests in such a room, especially an assembly, common during the 17th and 18th centuries, consisting of the leaders in society, art, politics, etc. |  | 6 |
| 12632167855 | Liberals | Believing that government should be active in supporting social and political change. | 7 | |
| 12632167858 | First Estate | The Church (clergy) |  | 8 |
| 12632167859 | Second Estate | Nobility |  | 9 |
| 12632167860 | Third Estate | The commons, the French bourgeoisie and working class before the French Revolution. |  | 10 |
| 12632167861 | Bourgeoisie | The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. | 11 | |
| 12632167862 | Tennis Court Oath | When members of the National Assembly vowed to "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established." |  | 12 |
| 12632167863 | Bastille | A fortress in Paris that played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. |  | 13 |
| 12632167865 | Primogeniture | The right, by law or custom, of the legitimate, firstborn son to inherit his parent's entire or main estate, in preference to daughters, elder illegitimate sons, younger sons and collateral relatives. |  | 14 |
| 12632167866 | Maroons | A member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. |  | 15 |
| 12632167867 | Creoles | A person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean. |  | 16 |
| 12632167868 | Mestizos | A man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. |  | 17 |
| 12632167869 | Peninsulares | A Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies. |  | 18 |
| 12632167873 | John Locke | A seventeenth-century English philosopher. Argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to "write" on it. |  | 19 |
| 12632167874 | Social Contract | An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. |  | 20 |
| 12632167875 | Baron Montesquieu | French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers. |  | 21 |
| 12632167876 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | A Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. |  | 22 |
| 12632167881 | Separation of Powers | An act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. |  | 23 |
| 12632167882 | Checks and Balances | Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups. |  | 24 |
| 12632167883 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. |  | 25 |
| 12632167885 | Balance of Power | A situation in which nations of the world have roughly equal power. |  | 26 |
| 12632167886 | Philosophes | The intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, and social issues. |  | 27 |
| 12632167888 | Napoleon Bonaparte | A French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. |  | 28 |
| 12632167889 | King Louis XVI | King of France (1774-1792). He summoned the Estates-General to undertake fiscal reforms, an event that eventually led to the French Revolution. He was convicted of treason by the revolutionary government and executed in 1793. |  | 29 |
| 12632167890 | Maximilien Robespierre | A French lawyer and politician. He was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. |  | 30 |
| 12632167891 | Tsar Alexander I | Tsar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon. |  | 31 |
| 12632167892 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution. His military and political acumen saved the gains of the first Black insurrection in November 1791 |  | 32 |
| 12632167893 | Miguel Hidalgo | Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who is called the father of Mexican independence. |  | 33 |
| 12632167895 | Archduke Maximilian | The only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire. |  | 34 |
| 12632167896 | Jose de San Martin | South American general and statesman, born in Argentina: leader in winning independence for Argentina, Peru, and Chile; protector of Peru 1821-22. |  | 35 |
| 12632167897 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825. |  | 36 |
| 12632167903 | Congress of Vienna | A conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich. |  | 37 |
| 12632167906 | Conservatives | A person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in relation to politics. | 38 | |
| 12632167908 | Realpolitik | A system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations. | 39 | |
| 12632167910 | Socialism | A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. | 40 | |
| 12632167913 | The Wealth of Nations | Literary piece of work authored by Adam Smith in 1776, which is considered one of the first written publications in the field of economics. |  | 41 |
| 12632167914 | Laissez-faire | a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |  | 42 |
