Enlightenment Flashcards
Hobbes
Need absolute ruler to prevent war
Locke
Consent of governed, overthrow concept gov, natural rights
Montesquieu
Seperation of powers
English civil war
1642-48
Parliament vs King
Parliament wins est commonwealth later restored to monarchy
American Revolution
Enlightenment influenced 1775-1783 colonist v mother country
Glorious
Overthrow James 11 invited wm + Mary to rhrone, limit monarchs
English bill of rights
French Revolution stages
Bastille - spark
New gov tennis court oath
Document
Radicals take over (reign of terror)
Louvreture
Slave who led revolt for independence in Haiti against France
Bastille
Storming of this French fort by peasants
Mestizo
Latin American social class of mixed Native American and European descent
Garibaldi
Leader of red shirts who attacked Sicily and unified socher Italy and northern Italy
Simon bolivar
Creaole (Spanish parents but born in Latin America) led Venezuelan and South America independence movements from Spanish
Oliver Cromwell
Led Roundheads in English civil war and became military dictator in England
Don Quixote
Story by Miguel de Cervantes first modern novel in enlightenment
Locke
Two treaties on gov “life liberty and property” ppl have right to overthrow bad gov