FINAL+EXAM+STUDY+PACKET+ON+DEMOCRACY,+ENLIGHTENMENT,+AND+REVOLUTIONS

=EXAM REVIEW-__PACKET #1 THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY! 10.1 and 10.2__= These packets are to be completed using all composition book notes (from slide shows on website!) and writings, previous study guides, and text book. They must be signed and returned (along with all other handouts passed back by Ms. Anders) on the DAY OF THE FINAL!

Greco- Roman Views:

 * polytheism-


 * Philosophers?


 * Classical art-


 * Who voted-

Greece

 * Pericles=


 * Who controls the government structure?

Rome

 * Republic-


 * Senate-


 * Patricians-


 * Plebians-


 * Reasons for fall of Roman Republic-

Greece

 * How the Judicial Branch works-


 * Council of 500-
 * Difference with US?

Rome

 * Judges-
 * Law=
 * Exec. Power-

Judeo-Christian Views:

 * Monotheism-
 * LAW=
 * Individual duty-
 * Similarities with US?

Greeks?
Plato’s Republic
 * “At first … [he] is full of smiles…[but later] he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader”
 * A ____________should rule because: *

Aristotle’s Politics * He said, of tyranny that it “is just that arbitrary power of an individual which is responsible to no one and governs all … with a view to his own advantage, not to that of his subjects”
 * Believed-

Why was he skeptical of direct democracy?

What four ways has the U.S. Constitution influenced contemporary (current) political systems?
1.*Federalism- 2.*Separation of Powers- 3.*Popular Sovereignty- 4.*Individual Rights-

Describe and give examples of all four: Federalism -

Separation of Power-

Popular Sovereignty-

Individual Rights-

( *Guarantees by United Nations (UN))

=10.2 ENLIGHTENMENT=

What were the major political ideas of:

 * John Locke**
 * Wrote-
 * Natural rights:


 * Authority of government-


 * Influenced-


 * Baron de Montesquieu**
 * Wrote -
 * Believed:


 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau**
 * Wrote-
 * Social contract exists between the citizens and their govt. This contract says that ...


 * Simon Bolivar**


 * Thomas Jefferson** “the ideal of an independent republic, democratically governed by an intellectual aristocracy under a strictly construed constitutional system, with a national gov. of limited powers and with major emphasis on individual freedom, responsibility and states’ rights.”

democratic revolutions in:
England
 * Glorious Revolution 1688-

U.S.
 * American Revolution (1775-1781):

France
 * French Revolution (1789-1794):

Latin America
 * Latin America--Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia… (1810-1824):

What are the major principles of the:
Magna Carta -1217 *

English Bill of Rights (England)(1689)

Declaration of Independence (1776) &US Bill of Rights Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (France)

(4 phases of the revolution)-
I Old Regime of France was who?
 * Monarchy-

Three estates : First- Second- Third- 1. 2. 3.
 * Three Reasons for discontent?

II National Assembly *

III Committee of Public Safety/ Reign of Terror
 * Maximilian Robespierre -
 * Sadat-
 * Guillotine-
 * Directory-

IV Napoleon Bonaparte
 * What did he do?
 * What led to his defeat (two)?
 * What led to his defeat (two)?
 * What led to his defeat (two)?
 * What led to his defeat (two)?

How was the spread of European nationalism under Napoleon contained until 1848 under the Congress of Vienna (1815)?

 * Metternich-
 * Goals:

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