Guided Reading 18-3
Napoleon Bonaparte dominated (1)___________________ and (2) ___________________ history from 1799 to 1815. Napoleon once said, “(3) ___________________.” He was born in 1769 on the island of (4) ___________________ in the Mediterranean Sea. His education in French military schools led to his commission in 1785 as a (5) ___________________ in the French army. At the age of only 25, Napoleon was made a brigadier general by the (6) ___________________. In 1796, he was made commander of the French armies in (7) ___________________ where he won a series of victories.
Although theoretically the new government of 1799 was a republic, Napoleon held (8) ___________________ power. In 1802, Napoleon was made (9) ___________________ for life and two years later he had himself crowned (10) ___________________ Napoleon I.
Napoleon was a believer in reason who regarded religion to be at most a (11) ___________________. But in Egypt he called himself a (12) ___________________; in France, a (13) ___________________. In an agreement made with the Pope, (14) ___________________ was recognized as the religion of a majority of the French people. Napoleon’s most famous domestic achievement was his (15) ___________________ of the laws. The most important of the codes was the (16) ___________________, or Napoleon Code. This code preserved most of the (17) ___________________ of the revolution. However, Napoleon also destroyed some revolutionary ideals through (18) ___________________. He shut down 60 to 73 French (19) ___________________.
Two major reasons help to explain the rapid decline of Napoleon’s Grand Empire: the (20) ___________________ of Great Brittan and the force of (21) ___________________. The beginning of Napoleon’s downfall came in 1812 with his disastrous invasion of (22) ___________________.