1. Absolute Monarch
King has unrestricted control over it’s state

2. Jacobins
a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789.

3. Enlightenment
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.

4. Legitimacy
the lawfulness or authenticity of something

5. Great Fear
was a general panic that occurred between 17 July and 3 August 1789 at the start of the French Revolution.

6. Divine Right
The doctrine that kings and queens have a God-given right to rule

7. Napoleonic Code
The code forbade privileges based on birth and allowed freedom of religion,

8. Reign of Terror
a period of remorseless bloodshed during the French Revolution

9. Huguenots
a French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries

10. National Assembly
the elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution

11. Bastille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris

12. Estate
Comprised of 3 tiers: clergy, nobility, and everyone else.

13. Guillotine
a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.

14. Edict of Nantes
the law granting religious and civil liberties to the French Protestants

15. Tennis Court Oath
dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non privileged classes of the French nation

16. Social Contract
an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits

17. Scorched Earth policy
a military strategy of burning or destroying buildings, crops, or other resources

18. Estates General
the legislative body in France until 1789, representing the three estates of the realm

19. Philosophe
the intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

20. Continental System
was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain

21. Intendents
a title given to a high-ranking official

22. Peninsular War
was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal

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