Napoleon Dynamite!!!
oops wait wrong napoleon...
anyways, napoleon was a super big hero *cue fan-girling french girls* (clearly from the pictures above you can see that)
was firm rule more appealing than liberty??? aka if had louis xvi been a firm ruler would the revolution even had happened?
- well its a hypothetical so you can't be wrong... except if you choose two answers...- anyway the revolution probably wouldn't have happened since the firm rule would have prevented a rebellion from swelling... he would have crushed it before they even had a chance
and when they accepted napoleon, did they really want a firm rule? they really didn't want a firm rule, they were just really tired of disorder. so they sacrificed their liberty in exchange for some peace and quiet.
NAPOLEON HAS TWO SIDES: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL
this is the point in the class when Mr. Yarnall was extremely mean to Julia and she threatened to leave. I am glad she didn't considering she gave us answers later on.
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| me when julia was about to leave |
DOMESTIC
1. NAPOLEON passed the civil code of 1804 which granted rights to all male citizens and guaranteed private property and wealth.
this led to the posing of the question, was NB a revolutionary?
- at first we were saying that since he agreed with many of the ideologies of the first revolution/ moderate revolution he would be
- then we remembered that NB sort of did anything or agreed with things to get power... this could have been a ploy to get the peasants to like him
2. did napoleon end the french revolution? is it still continuing today?
well we had already sort of established that NB agreed with revolutionary ideals, but he also created an empire, something that wasn't really part of the revolutionary ideals.
i guess it's up to you to decide lol sorry.
INTERNATIONAL
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| at the height of Napoleon's power |
okay so there are a tons of wars and coalitions and its less important to know all of them in detail and more recognize what they were for --> aka know the key battles and events, don't get caught up in the little details
1. Peace treaty with Britain --> don't be fooled, NB was not a peaceful person
2. Blockade of British trade in 1802 --> ended up hurting France more than Britain, the first of several missteps for NB
3. Battle of Trafalgar --> NB decided to invade Great Britain... bad idea... The british navy was the strongest in the world and Lord Nelson defeated France's ships. beginning of the end
4. NB flustered about Trafalgar, decides to invade Russia and blame the loss of Trafalgar on Russia --> also another mistake bc RUSSIA IS COLD IN THE WINTER
5. NB loses at Russia and forced to surrender by a coalition of Great Britain, Prussia, Austria, --> banished to the island of elba and the end of the empire
quick thought: how did Napoleon create nationalism?
- well he didn't create it in France, but rather in other countries. It's the whole idea of uniting against a common enemy. The biggest example would be Spain and its rebellions/revolts
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| 3rd of May, by Goya |
another quick thought that we didn't really answer this but food for thought: how are these two side of NB related?
END OF NAPOLEONIC ERA
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| what a beautiful (large?) island Napoleon has |
why did the allies establish a monarchy again? why did they not divide up France in spoils of war?
- ummm,... i'm not really sure but I'm pretty sure that the countries wanted everything to go back to the way it used to be with France as a weak country so they re-established and weak monarchy. that way they could predict what was going to happen.
HUNDRED DAYS
- NB comes back, reigns for 100 days (clearly by the title)- shows how weak Louis XVIII was that he was able to be usurped by an empire
- banished again, this time to a prison on an island
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