World History Flashcards
Coalitions
European military alliances
Nationalism
Loyalty to your country
Trafalgar
Battle to attempt to capture Great Britain (Naval battle)
Continental system
A blockade of all British goods across the European continent
Guerillas
Spanish peasant fighters
Scorched earthy policy
Destroy everything in their path
Elba
Island , Napoleon was defeated at exiled to the island of Elba
Hundred days
Last bid for power
Duke of Wellington
Defeats Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo
St Helena
Napoleon excited to the penal colony (prison)
Plebiscite
Vote,of the people
Napoleonic code
Forbade privileges based on birth allowed freedom of religion and appointed people public office based on merit rather than birth connections
Concordat
Agreement with the Catholic Church to restore their lands and some of their power
Lycees
1st government run public schools
Consulate
Group of 3 consuls
Coup d’estat
Blow to the state - forced take over of power
Corsica
Napoleon was born their
Directory
Government group of 5
Committee of public safety
Was a court system set up to stamp out the opposition to the revolution
Emigres
Mass exodus of nobles
Humanism
Idea that humans can do anything
Renaissance
A rebirth of art literature and learning
Enlightment
An intellectual movement that emphasized human reason and science spawned by the renaissance
Toussiant Louverture
He led the uprising of slavery in Haiti
