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| A member of a loosely organization fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country. |
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| A conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain. |
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| A battle led by the Duke of Wellington, prepared for battle near the village of Waterloo in Belgium. |
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| The brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France. |
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| A series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon. |
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| A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others. |
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| The hereditary right of a monarch to rule. |
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| A league of of european nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna. |
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| A series of alliances amoung European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens Von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions. |
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| People who were born in Spain were at the top of Spanish-American society. |
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| In Spanish colonial society, a colonist who was born in Latin America to Spanish parents. |
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| Persons of mixed European and African ancestry. |
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| In the first half of the 19th century, a eruopean- usually a wealthy landowner or noble- who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe. |
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| In the first half of the 19th century, a European- usually a middle-class business leader or merchant- who wanted to give political power to elected parliament. |
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| In the first half of the 19th century, a European who favored drastic changes to extend democracy to all people. |
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| The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation- that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history- rather than to a king or empire. |
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| An independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identity. |
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| The region of southeastern Europe now occupied by Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the European part of Turkey, and the former republics of Yugoslavia. |
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| The process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Russian Empire. |
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| Strongly conservative members of Prussias wealthy landowning class. |
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| "the politics of reality" - the practice of tough power politics without room for idealism. |
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| A German emperor (from the roman title Caesar). |
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| An early-19th-century movement in art an thought, which focused on emotion and nature rather than reason and society. |
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| 19th-century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be. |
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| A movement in 19th-century painting, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or movements in time. |
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| A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon. |
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| An 1805 naval battle in which Napoleans forces were defeated by british fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson. |
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| Napoleons policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy. |
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