HIST112- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 58 pages long!)

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Napoleon bonaparte was a french general, first consul (1799 1804), and emperor of the french (1804 1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the west. He revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the napoleonic code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived concordat with the papacy. Napoleon"s many reforms left a lasting mark on the institutions of france and of much of western europe. But his driving passion was the military expansion of. The french revolution - feudalism and unfair taxation. No one factor was directly responsible for the french revolution. Years of feudal oppression and fiscal mismanagement contributed to a french society that was ripe for revolt. Noting a downward economic spiral in the late 1700s, king louis xvi brought in a number of financial advisors to review the weakened french treasury.