ACCT 2000 Chapter : Chapter 7 Vocabulary
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Estate- one of the three social classes in france before the french revolution-the first. Estate consisting of the clergy; the second estate, of the nobility; and the third estate, of the rest of the population. Great fear- a wave of senseless panic that spread through the french countryside after the storming of the bastille in 1789. Guillotine- a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the. Maximilien robespierre- one of the best-known and most influential figures of the. He largely dominated the committee of public safety and was instrumental in the period of the revolution commonly known as the reign of terror. Coup d" tat- a sudden seizure of political power in a nation. Napoleonic code- a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for france by napoleon. Waterloo- fought on sunday, june 18, 1815 near waterloo in present day belgium. Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the seventh coalition.
