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World History French Revolution
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12th Grade
10/02/2012

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Absolutism
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a political system in which a ruler holds total power
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Aristocrat
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a government or state ruled by an aristocracy, elite, or privileged upper class.
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Divine Right
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Kings rule because god chose them.
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Conscription
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Military Draft
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Suffrage
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the right to vote, especially in a political election.
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Philosophes
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any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
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Salons
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urban houses where in the 18th century, writers artists, aristocrats, government officials, and wealthy middle class people gathered to discuss the ideas of the philosophes helping to spread the ideas of the Enlightenmnent
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Geocentric
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literally earth-centered. a system of planetary motion that places Earth at the center of the universe, with the sun, moon and other planets revolving around it
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Heliocentric
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Everything revolves around the sun
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1.Clergy
2.Nobility
3.Bourgeois, Middle Class & Peasant
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The three estates
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Jacobins
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Factions split from the National Convention after France turned to Radicalism
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Palace of Versailles
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King Louis' palace. It's to distract people from politics. 50% gdp goes there.
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Nationalism
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Unique Cultural Identity
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