World HIstory ch. 22 and 23
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- Intendants
- government agents who would collect taxes and administer justice.
- Define the Scientific Revolution.
- It was the new way of thinking about the natural world.
- Versailles
- 36,000 laborers, 2 wings 150 yards long, main building was 500 yards long, 2000 rooms, 14,000 fountains, 15,000 acers of gardens-lawns-woods
- What is the medieval view?
- It was the belief that the earth was an unmoving object at the center of the universe.
- Louis XIV (sun king)
- took over at age 5, gave middle class stuff so they would be loyal, keeps nobles at his palace-Versailles
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- established that the sun was the center of the universe
- Rene Descartes
- devoloped analytical geometry
- Edward Jenner
- vaccine for small poxs
- Galen
- Studied pigs and said they had the same insides as humans, but was proved wrong by Vesalius.
- Cardinal Richelieu
- helped Louis XIII, brought power to the central government, AGAINST the Hugenots.
- Zacharias Janssen
- made first microscope
- Anders Celsius
- created another scale for the mercury thermometor
- Louis XIII
- became king after Henry of Navarre was murdered
- Henry III
- Catholic, no heir to the throne, was gay, the catholic heir to the throne was murdered by the pretty boys.
- Absolutism
- a king or queen who tries to dominate ALL aspects of socity.
- Galileo Galilei
- discovered the law of the pendulum, falling objects acclerate at a fixed and predictable rate, telescope
- Vesalius
- disected humans
- Huguenots
- French prodistants battling for the will of the people to convert from catholisim
- Fabriel Fahrenheit
- first thermometor with mercury in glass
- Isaac Newton
- Laws of motion, theory of motion.
- Francis Bacon
- Critizied Aristotle and a medieval thinker
- Divine Right
- given the authority by GOD to rule.
- Robert Boyle
- founder of modern chemistry
- Why did Galileo's discoveries concern the church?
- Because what he discovered questioned the church, and they didn't want the people to question their teachings.
- Henry of Navarre (Henry IV)
- was told he could be king if he became catholic, passes the Edict of Nantes- catholicism was the main religion but all religions would be accepted, was the first of the Bourbon Dynasty, was murdered.
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Help Louis XIV, increased taxes, central govt more power