Age of Revolutions

Coup d’etat

unlawful seizure of power

Concordat of 1801

agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that established Catholicism as France’s main religion

Napoleonic Code

standardized laws such as equality before law

Battle of Trafalgar

Naval Battle that leads the French to change their minds about the invasion of Great Britain

Battle of Waterloo

stopped France and Napoleon from dominating Europe

Continental System

a blockade of the British Empire that Napoleon implemented

Scorched Earth Policy

the Russian army lit everything on fire

Hundred Days

the period between Napoleon's return to Paris and the restoration of King Louis XVIII

Congress of Vienna

prevent French aggression, balance power, restore royal family

Legitimacy

restored those removed from their thrones

Concert of Europe

Series of alliances that were supposed to help one another 

Nationalism

loyalty to the nation

Principle of Intervention

Right to send armies into other countries to “help” them

Klemens von Metternich

Austrian Prime Minister

Alexander I

helped form the coalition that defeated Napoleon