Age of Revolutions and Rebellions Test

Galileo

Built the telescope, on trial for false ideas, defended heliocentric theory

Kepler

3 planetary systems

Restoration

When Charles ll restored monarchy and social traditions

Locke

believed in natural rights and the governments power came from the people

Hobbes

Wrote the leviathan, pioneered the social contract

Voltaire

Most influential, citizen of the world, fought for freedom of speech and religious intolerance

Rousseau

Direct democracy, anti government beloved they took away rights

Montesquieu

Checks and balances, 3 branches of government, U.S constitution

National Assembly

Representative group of the common people

Storming the bastille

Assuming Louis XVI was destroying the new assembly, the people marched into the bastille murdering guards and beginning the revolution

Declaration of the Rights of man and the citizen

Essentially the French bill of rights

Coup d’Etat

The right to overthrow the government

Napoleonic code

Eliminate injustices while also taking away liberties

Continental system

When napoleon blocked trade with Britain

Battle of Waterloo

The defeat of napoleon and the beginning of peace times

Congress of Vienna

Meetings to discuss for peace and stability in Europe

Hobbes

Wrote the leviathan