Global Awareness

Unit 10 Assignment – Napoleon & Romanticism

 

Unit Readings:

 

 

A. Napoleon Terms

 

Identify each of the following terms in complete sentences (who, what, when, where!), being sure to explain why the item is historically significant.

 

1. Napoleon Bonaparte

11. Continental System (Berlin Decrees + Milan Decrees)

2. The Directory

12. Peninsular War (against Spain)

3. Abbé Siéyés

13. “Scorched Earth” Policy

4. The Consulate

14. Battle of Borodino (1812)

5. Plebiscite

15. Battle of the Nations (or Leipzig) (1813)

6. The Concordat of 1801

16. Elba

7. Napoleonic Code

17. Congress of Vienna

8. “Emperor of the French” (1804)

18. The One Hundred Days

9. Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

19. Battle of Waterloo (1815)

10. Battle of Austerlitz (1805)

20. St. Helena

 

B. The Congress of Vienna

 

You are attending the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna. Compose a report on it, addressing…

 

a) The main purposes, concerns, and goals of the European delegates gathered at the Congress of Vienna

b) The main decisions arrived at

c) The role played by Metternich

d) How defeated France was treated

e) The creation of “buffer states”

f) Concepts of conservatism and legitimacy

 

You may either do this purely in writing, or use a combination of text and graphics, such as in a magazine or newspaper article, poster, pamphlet, etc.

 

C. Romanticism

 

Discuss what is meant by the “Romantic Movement.” What were the Romantics reacting against? Explain how the following thinkers contributed to romanticism…

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Émile

- Immanuel Kant and the subjective nature of human knowledge

- John Wesley and Methodism

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