266838538 | The Spirit of the Laws | It was a treatise on political theory, which was first published by Charles de Secondat. | 0 | |
266838539 | Congress of Vienna | The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. | 1 | |
266838540 | Revolutions of 1848 | The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the People or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout the European continent. | 2 | |
266838541 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825 (1783-1830) | 3 | |
266838542 | Estates General | France's traditional national assembly with representatives of the three estates, or classes, in French society: the clergy, nobility, and commoners. The calling of the Estates General in 1789 led to the French Revolution. | 4 | |
266838543 | Olympe de Gouges | Was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. | 5 | |
266838544 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience | 6 | |
266838545 | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793. | 7 | |
266838546 | Maximilien Robespierre | Is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. | 8 | |
266838547 | Napoleon Bonaparte | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) | 9 | |
266838548 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. | 10 | |
266838549 | Ancien Regime | A political and social system that no longer governs | 11 | |
266838550 | National Assembly | The elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution, 1789-91 | 12 | |
266838551 | Jacobins | A member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution | 13 | |
266838552 | Directory | group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789. Origins of the Revolution. | 14 | |
266838553 | Civil Code | A civil code is a systematic collection of laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of private law. A jurisdiction that has a civil code generally also has a code of civil procedure. | 15 |
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