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| 271389001 | The Spirit of the Laws | Political theory treaty written by Montesquieu in 1748 that stresses constitutional gov't, seperation of powers and ending of slavery | 0 | |
| 271389002 | Congress of Vienna | Ambassadors of European states (Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria were the main ones) gathered in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815 to settle issues from the Napoleonic Wars, French Revolution, and the seperation of the Holy Roman Empire. Served as a model for League of Nations and United Nations | 1 | |
| 271389003 | Revolutions of 1848 | Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary the revolutions failed | 2 | |
| 271389004 | Simon Bolivar | 1783-1830, was one of South America's best generals, led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 3 | |
| 271389005 | Estates General | a legislative assembly of the estates of France that had no true power, served as an advisory body to the king | 4 | |
| 271389006 | Olympe de Gouges | 1748-1793, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality | 5 | |
| 271389007 | John Locke | 1632-1704, English philosopher who came up with the "social contract", where gov't powers are derived from the consent of the governed and the government serves the people, also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property | 6 | |
| 271389008 | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | King and queen of France during the French Revolution, they were there when the "women marched on Versailles" and forced them to move to England. They tried to flee France during the revolution but they failed and were both beheaded | 7 | |
| 271389009 | Maximilien Robespierre | 1758-1794, aka "The incorruptable", led the Jacobins, he was one of the greatest leaders of the French Revolution and dominated the Committee of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror | 8 | |
| 271389010 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, was a French military leader during the last part of the French Revolution, became Emperor of the French from 1804-1815, best known for the Napoleonic Code and Napoleonic Wars | 9 | |
| 271389011 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. | 10 | |
| 271389012 | Ancien Régime | The aristocratic, social, and economic patterns that existed in Europe before the French Revolution; characterized by absolute monarchies, growing bureaucracies, agriculture dominance, food shortages, slow transportation, unsophisticated financial institutions, and people who considered themselves as a part of a group, not as individuals | 11 | |
| 271389013 | National Assembly | A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people, passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man | 12 | |
| 271389014 | Jacobins | Radical republicans during the French Revolution, led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794 | 13 | |
| 271389015 | Directory | 1795-1799, was the second to last stage of the French Revolution where five Directors had executive power over France | 14 | |
| 271389016 | Civil Code | French legal code by Napoleon in 1804, aka the Napoleonic Code, reaffirmed many of the social liberties that were introduced during the Revolution and reestablished a patriarchal system | 15 |
