Absolutism And Enlightenment Flashcards
Believed that there should be a separation between the church and state
Voltaire
Believed that people were naturally evil and that the government should rise up to take care of the evil people
Thomas Hobbes
Believed that the government should be split into three sections
Montesquieu
Believed that people were born with natural rights and it was the governments job to protect them
John Locke
Believed that the people and government and a social contract
Rousseau
The belief that kings received the power to rule from God
Divine right
Person that took lead during the revolution
Robespierre
A time when people died to the guittone
Reign of terror
Last king of France
Louis xvi
Last queen of France
Marie Antoinette
A time period when the king was taken off the thrown and people question how France was being ran
French Revolution
Contraption that chopped heads off
Guittone
During the reign of terror who was safe
No one
Issac Newton explained the
Law of universal gravitation
What concept was the belief in divine right
Absolute rule