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Seminar World: Enlightenment & Revolutions
Refer to Chapters 19 and 20 in your text. Explain the significance of each as it relates to history.
Scientific Revolution
1. Geocentric Theory –
2. Heliocentric Theory –
3. Isaac Newton –
4. Nicolaus Copernicus –
5. Galileo Galilei –
6. Johannes Kepler –
7. Tycho Brahe –
8. Rene Descartes –
9. Francis Bacon –
10. Robert Boyle –
11. Andreas Vesalius –
12. William Harvey –
13. Antony van Leeuwenhoek –
Enlightenment
14. Thomas Hobbs –
15. Social Contract Theory –
16. Salons –
17. John Locke –
18. Montesquieu –
19. Voltaire –
20. Adam Smith –
21. Denis Diderot –
22. Mary Wollstonecraft –
23. Jean Jaques-Rousseau –
24. Enlightened Despot –
American Revolution
25. Stamp Act –
26. Thomas Paine –
27. Thomas Jefferson –
28. Benjamin Franklin –
29. George Washington –
30. Treaty of Paris –
31. Articles of Confederation –
32. James Madison –
33. Constitution –
34. Bill of Rights –
French Revolution
35. King Louis XVI 36. Marie Antoinette 37. First Estate 38. Second Estate 39. Third Estate 40. Bourgeoisie 41. Sans Culottes 42. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 43. Radical 44. Maximilien Robespierre 45. Guillotine 46. Counterrevolution 47. Reign of Terror 48. Napoleon Bonaparte 49. Admiral Horatio Nelson 50. Coup d’etat 51. Plebiscite 52. Continental System 53. Nationalism -
54. Czar Alexander I 55. Hundred Days 56. Duke of Wellington –
57. Battle of Waterloo 58. Prince Klemens von Metternich 59. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 60. Indemnity 61. Reactionary –
Short Answers
1. Did the Scientific Revolution bring about a modern way of thinking? Explain your answer.
2. Were enlightened despots an improvement over traditional monarchs? Why or why not?
3. Which Enlightenment thinker had the greatest influence on the framers of the U.S. Constitution?
Explain your answer.
4. How did events in other countries affect the development of the French government?
5. Was the Directory an improvement on the National Convention? Why or why not?
6. What are some possible reasons for the success of the Spanish peasants’ guerrilla war against
Napoleon’s troops?
7. Do you think Metternich’s reaction to the French Revolution and Napoleon’s rule was a logical one?
Why or why not?