Unit 5 Review
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- helicoentric
- Belief, that the sun was the center of the solar system!
- age of absolutism
- Time period where kings and queens ruled domains with total control over their people.
- Geocentric
- Belief, that the earth was the center of the solar system!
- john locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- johann sebastian bach
- German baroque organist and contrapuntist
- peter the great
- St. Petersburg. Modernized Russia.
- eugene delacroix
- French romantic painter (1798-1863)
- 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.
- scientific method
- a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses.
- william and mary
- joint monarchs of England
- voltaire
- French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
- frederick the Great
- King of Prussia who used the army to strengthen the nation's powers.
- fallow
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season!
- montesquieu
- French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
- william harvey
- English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood
- charles I
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
- miguel de cervantes
- Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
- 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)
- absolute monarchy
- a monarchy in which the ruler's power is unlimited.
- age of reason
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- nicolaus copernicus
- suggested that the sun, not Earth, was the center of our solar system (heliocentric)
- johannes kepler
- proved elliptical orbits
- oliver cromwell
- leader of the commonwealth army
- galileo galilei
- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- divine right of kings
- believed that they where chose by God to be in the postion they are today!
- enlightenment
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- charles II
- King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
- english civil war
- civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I
- constitutional monarchy
- constitution that explains the powers of the government and owes allegiance to a monarch.
- Scientific Revolution
- an era between 16th and 18th turies when scientists began dcenoing research in a new way using the scientific method.
- 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.
- 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.
- wolfgang amadeus mozart
- prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy
- issac newton
- made three laws of motion