Unit 3 Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. a government-run public school in France.
  2. 7. d’état a sudden seizure of political power in a nation.
  3. 9. despot one of the 18th-century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects.
  4. 11. an 18th- century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society.
  5. 12. people who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution.
  6. 14. Monarchy a system of governing in which the ruler’s power is limited by law.
  7. 17. a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country.
  8. 18. corpus document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court or judge so that it can be decided whether his or her imprisonment is legal.
  9. 20. Monarch a king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society.
Down
  1. 1. method a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses.
  2. 2. earth policy the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.
  3. 3. of power a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others.
  4. 5. a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
  5. 6. an adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western-especially European- countries.
  6. 8. a direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal.
  7. 10. right the idea that monarchs are God’s representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
  8. 13. French government official appointed by the monarch to collect taxes and administer justice.
  9. 15. the hereditary right of a monarch to rule.
  10. 16. a group of advisers or ministers chosen by the head of a country to help make government decisions.
  11. 19. the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region.