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- 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.
- geocentric
- having the earth as the center
- johann sebastian bach
- Born 1685 in Germany; Taveled and brought new music ideas to the church; Baroque style: complex, multilayered
- john locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- galileo galilei
- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- absolute monarchy
- ruler's power is unlimited
- jean-jacques rosseau
- philosopher and composer of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of both liberal and socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
- scientific method
- it is a way to ask and answer scientific question by making observations and doing experiments.
- charles II
- King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-1685) who reigned during the Restoration, a period of expanding trade and colonization as well as strong opposition to Catholicism
- divine right of kings
- god gave kings the right to rule and kings are answerable only to God
- thomas hobbes
- Philosopher who argued that man was sinful and needed to be controlled
- age of reason
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- montesquieu
- French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
- glorious revolution
- Overthrew James II and put in Mary and William who worked with Parliment to run England
- johnanes kepler
- a german mathematicatician, confirmed the heliocentric theory with obsevation
- age of absolutism
- Time period where kings and queens ruled domains with total control over their people.
- oliver cormwell
- leaded military in england untill1658
- wolfgang amadeus mozart
- Born 1756 in Austria. Musical prodigy. Traveled through Europe. Rebelled against church rules. Classical Style,
- charles I
- King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-1649). His power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil War (1642-1648) in which Charles was defeated. He was tried for treason and beheaded in 1649
- isaac newton
- English mathematician and physicist
- heliocentric
- a sun-centered universe
- scientific revolution
- an era between 16th and 18th centuries when scientists began doing research in a new way using the scientific method
- miguel de cervantes
- Mocked the tradation of Spain's feudal past in his novel "Don Quixote".
- english civil war
- civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I
- william harvey
- discovered circulation of blood
- louis XIV
- The French King who built the palace at versailles
- constitutional monarchy
- A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution.
- fallow
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
- voltaire
- Philosopher that defended the freedom of thought.
- peter the great
- ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, wanted closer ties to western europe, modernize and strengthen Russia
- william and mary
- Prostestant, married William of Orange ruler of Netherlands and Protestant champion of Europe, invited by Parilament to assume the throne, James II offered no resistence and fled to France
- enlightenment
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- frederick the great
- King of Prussia who used the army to strengthen his country
- nicolaus copernicus
- Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
- eugene delacroix
- Born 1798 in France.ART. Romantic: emotion not reason. Use of color. Historic themes.