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What is the Catholic Reformation / Counter Reformation?
This is a deep process of reform that the Catholic Church undertook in response to the Protestant Reformation
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What are the philosophes?
These are the thinkers and writers of the Enlightenment
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What is the Estates General?
This assembly was called by Louis XVI in 1789 to help him raise taxes. It was made up of representatives of the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else
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Who is Henry the Navigator?
This Portuguese prince traveled down the western coast of Africa with the hope of finding and selling gold
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What is the Renaissance?
This term refers to the rebirth of the classical culture of Greeks and Romans and the new study of classical texts in the 14th and 15th centuries
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What is the Babylonian Captivity / Avignon Papacy?
This is a period during which the papacy was moved from Rome to France
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What is the “high” Enlightenment?
This is the 2nd stage of the Enlightenment, lasting from 1748-1778
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What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This document, which was passed by the National Assembly in 1789, reflected the notion that rights came with being born human, but women and slaves were not included
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What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is the worldwide transfer of pathogens, plants, and animals resulting from the expanded and intensified contact among civilizations after 1492
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What is Versailles?
This is the palace Louis XIV designed to reflect the imperatives of monarchical authority.
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What is the Sale of Indulgences?
This a Catholic practice, which many people objected to, that allowed you to pay money to reduce the amount of time a soul would suffer in Purgatory
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Who is John Locke?
This is a philosopher who linked the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment by claiming that philosophy was also a discipline that should be subject to the rigors of the scientific method
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What are the English Factory Acts?
This set of laws established limits on the number of hours women and children could work
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Who is Montesquieu?
This thinker offered the first critical examination of the institution of slavery by an Enlightenment philosopher
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What is the Guillotine?
This invention was intended to provide a more humane and egalitarian form of execution.
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Who is Erasmus?
This Christian humanist wanted to reform the Church from within and didn’t see education as contradicting the Church
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What are Deists?
These are people who viewed God as a clockmaker who set the world in motion according to the laws of nature then left knowledge and progress to the discovery and action of mankind
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What are the June Days?
This is a period of the 1848 Revolution in France during which workers protested the closing of cooperative workshops by building barricades and the Second Republic’s troops repressed the uprising, killing thousands
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What are Bills of Exchange?
These promissory notes, which acted like a check does today, made global trade possible
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Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This English thinker provided a justification for absolute rule, arguing that absolutism alone could save society form the constant “war of every man against every man”
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What are the 95 Theses?
In this document, which he posted in 1517, Martin Luther laid out his concerns and critiques of the Catholic Church
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Who is Immanuel Kant?
This is the philosopher who coined the slogan “Dare to know!” to describe the Enlightenment
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Who is Louis Blanc?
This French social theorist demanded that the government establish cooperative workshops that would be owned by the workers themselves
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Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This former slave led a successful slave revolt in Saint-Dominuge inspired by revolutionary ideals
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What is the Civil Code of 1804 / Napoleonic Code?
This set of laws unified and standardized local law codes, but also sharply curtailed women’s rights.
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