HIEU 242 Exam1 Questions and Answers
Ancien Regime - Answer-political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted of absolutism and
class orders/estates
Absolutism - Answer-system of government in which both legislative and executive power was
concentrated in the hands of a king who could act w/o any legal limitations on his sovereignty (result of
religious wars from earlier century)
Palace of Versailles - Answer-center of French political power from 1682
Louis XIV - Answer-"sun king" who moved nobles from provinces into Versailles
"nobility of the sword" - Answer-old line of nobility extending over generations within one family
"nobility of the robe" - Answer-Nobility who bought in, new money
first estate - Answer-clergy
, second estate - Answer-nobility
third estate - Answer-commoners
honor in ancien regime - Answer-distinguished birth and profession
moral basis of 18th century society - Answer-tradition (family ways) & authority (church)
privileges - Answer-private laws that legislated inequality, examples: death penalty and taxes only
applied to commoners
ancien regime dress code - Answer-only nobility and clergy were allowed to wear bright, expensive
clothes because social standing needed to be visible
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - Answer-unequal rights people lived by under the
ancien regime
The Enlightenment - Answer-intellectual movement during the ancien regime that facilitated thinking
and skepticism which challenged tradition and authority (church)
The Scientific Revolution (16th - 17th c.) - Answer-discovery of "natural laws" regulating the universe
provided inspo to seek similar "natural laws" regulating government and society
Paris - Answer-birthplace of Enlightenment
Deism - Answer-God created the world and the universe but retreated from world affairs and hasn't
intervened since
Ancien Regime - Answer-political structure in pre-revolution France that consisted of absolutism and
class orders/estates
Absolutism - Answer-system of government in which both legislative and executive power was
concentrated in the hands of a king who could act w/o any legal limitations on his sovereignty (result of
religious wars from earlier century)
Palace of Versailles - Answer-center of French political power from 1682
Louis XIV - Answer-"sun king" who moved nobles from provinces into Versailles
"nobility of the sword" - Answer-old line of nobility extending over generations within one family
"nobility of the robe" - Answer-Nobility who bought in, new money
first estate - Answer-clergy
, second estate - Answer-nobility
third estate - Answer-commoners
honor in ancien regime - Answer-distinguished birth and profession
moral basis of 18th century society - Answer-tradition (family ways) & authority (church)
privileges - Answer-private laws that legislated inequality, examples: death penalty and taxes only
applied to commoners
ancien regime dress code - Answer-only nobility and clergy were allowed to wear bright, expensive
clothes because social standing needed to be visible
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - Answer-unequal rights people lived by under the
ancien regime
The Enlightenment - Answer-intellectual movement during the ancien regime that facilitated thinking
and skepticism which challenged tradition and authority (church)
The Scientific Revolution (16th - 17th c.) - Answer-discovery of "natural laws" regulating the universe
provided inspo to seek similar "natural laws" regulating government and society
Paris - Answer-birthplace of Enlightenment
Deism - Answer-God created the world and the universe but retreated from world affairs and hasn't
intervened since
