Contents for Social Studies Test
8th A
November 6th
8th B
November 3rd
8th C
November 5th
Contents:
1. The price revolution:
- Causes and consequences
2. National monarchies:
- Evolution (since Feudalism to Absolutism)
- Characteristics of nations
- Main national states
- Absolutism
- Thomas Hobbes and his theory of the divine power of kings.
3. Enlightenment:
- General ideas
- Philosophers and their ideas
4. The rise of national monarchies:
- Characteristics of the Historical process (evolution)
- Characteristics of nations
- Main national monarchies
5. The French Revolution:
- Causes and consequences
- People related to it (King Louis and his wife, Robespierre, Napoleon)
- Declaration of the rights of men and citizens
- Main events during the revolution.
6. Related vocabulary, photocopies given in class, notebook