H. G. Wells: “History is a race between education and catastrophe”.

viernes, 16 de noviembre de 2012

4º CC.SS. - TEMA 2 - Vocabulary

Une los términos que aparecen a continuación con sus definiciones: Centripetal nationalism , Civil Code, Constituent Assembly, Disentailment, Girondins, Guillotine, Holy Alliance, Indirect suffrage, Jacobins, National Guard, Rotten boroughs, Sans-culottes, Waterloo.



  •  Militia formed in each French city.
  •  Election borough with a very tiny population, small enough that voters could be personally bribed.
  • Rightist faction during the French Revolution.
  • Device designed for carrying out executions by decapitation.
  • French assembly that proposed the Constitution of 1791.
  • French code that rationalized and unified all the previous laws; it was promulgated by Napoleon.
  • Treaty signed by the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Tsar of Russia; it was to instill the divine right of kings and Christian values in European political life.
  • Radical left-wing partisans of the lower classes.
  • To release a lordly estate from tail.
  • Type of nationalism; diverse little countries with a common past and identity want to form only one country.
  • Final battle of Napoleon; French Army was defeated by Anglo-Prussian Army.
  • Leftist faction during the French Revolution.
  • Indirect election is a process in which voters in an election do not choose between candidates for an office but rather elect persons who will then make the choice.