Unit 5 Terms
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- helicoentric
- Belief, that the sun was the center of the solar system!
- issac newton
- made three laws of motion
- frederick the Great
- King of Prussia who used the army to strengthen the nation's powers.
- english civil war
- civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I
- eugene delacroix
- French romantic painter (1798-1863)
- age of reason
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- miguel de cervantes
- Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
- john locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- montesquieu
- French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
- nicolaus copernicus
- suggested that the sun, not Earth, was the center of our solar system (heliocentric)
- english bill of rights
- King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people.
- johann sebastian bach
- German baroque organist and contrapuntist
- voltaire
- French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
- age of absolutism
- Time period where kings and queens ruled domains with total control over their people.
- scientific method
- a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses.
- Scientific Revolution
- an era between 16th and 18th turies when scientists began dcenoing research in a new way using the scientific method.
- glorious revolution
- A reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange.
- charles II
- King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
- louis XIV
- The French King who built the palace at versailles, The longest standing King of France "Sun King",, One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe, ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote,"I am the state." Moved capital to Versailles which became a symbol of power.
- enlightenment
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- divine right of kings
- believed that they where chose by God to be in the postion they are today!
- johannes kepler
- proved elliptical orbits
- william and mary
- joint monarchs of England
- constitutional monarchy
- constitution that explains the powers of the government and owes allegiance to a monarch.
- wolfgang amadeus mozart
- prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy
- fallow
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season!
- thomas hobbes
- English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)
- galileo galilei
- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- charles I
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
- absolute monarchy
- a monarchy in which the ruler's power is unlimited.
- Geocentric
- Belief, that the earth was the center of the solar system!
- peter the great
- St. Petersburg. Modernized Russia.
- william harvey
- English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood
- oliver cromwell
- leader of the commonwealth army