Question

What was the legacy of Napoleon's reign as emperor?

Answer 1

http://www.answers.com/topic/louis-bonaparte
this would be helpful

Answer 2

What does it mean by, what was the legacy of his reign? This isn't a question on homework or anything. It's just a random question that goes with the lesson.

Answer 3

@razor99 Do you know?

Answer 4

Nope um u mean napolean dynamite

Answer 5

No, Napoleon Bonaparte. He was emperor of France twice I think that's what it said the video.There's a video that goes along with the question.

Answer 6

:O sowwie idk

Answer 7

It's fine. Thanks for becoming a fan of me though. :)

Answer 8

um yea no problemo C:

Answer 9

In case anyone else wants to help, here is the video that came along with the question.
http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/?assetGuid=6451C19B-176D-4211-B928-8AAEE576394E&fromMyDe=0&isPrinterFriendly=0&provider=&isLessonFromHealth=0&productcode=US&isAssigned=false&includeHeader=NO&homeworkGuid=

Answer 10

His legacy is a very broad one, but I'll sum some of the main ideas as best I can. Basically, even though he himself attempted to usurp it for his own purposes, his policies and wars in Europe broke the foundations of the centuries old European nobility and monarchies that ruled by Divine Right. They would continue to plod along for a time after his death, but essentially after he was through their days were numbered. In France most of all, the monarchy would never regain the supreme power it had once had over the nation.

This leads me to the whole concept of nationalism that was ostensibly a product of the French Revolution and Napoleon's propaganda. Napoleon led an extremely united French state the likes of which the world had scarcely seen before, although he still had his own internal squabbles. Otherwise, it was really the first time in history there was such a large group of people united so firmly under one ideology and that acted together to further it. Napoleon's wars exploited this fully, and he was the first to draft what would amount to millions of soldiers and then train, equip, and supply them so adequately. This was a drastic change from the much smaller professional armies that had dominated Europe for many generations.

Napoleon's army was an army made up of the people, and they believed they were fighting to spread the ideals of the French revolution and smash the monarchies of Europe and bring liberty to the world. These are powerful and galvanizing concepts that we see spread throughout the world in some form or another even to this day. The American Revolution pioneered many of these concepts, but the American colonies never took it as far as the French and Napoleon. To build off this enfranchisement of the common man, Napoleon was fond of promotion by merit rather than birth. It created a society in which blood no longer determined a man's destiny, and for a population that had found itself defined by one's birth for perhaps over a thousand years this was revolutionary, to say the least.

Now I've talked about a lot of long winded and abstract things here, and I'm sure you're sick of reading it. That being said, I'll leave you with a couple links to some of the more practical and tangible things that came about as a result of Napoleon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_campaign_in_Egypt_and_Syria#Scientific_expedition