Unit 5 review
Unit 5 flashcards
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- Enlightenment
- A time period when philosophersdiscovered new ideas for science and politics.
- Miguel De Cervantes
- Wrote "Don Quixote" about a man who thought he was a knight.
- Heliocentric
- The sun is in the center of the solar system.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Austrian musician who rebelled against church rules and had a piano classical style.
- Eugene Delacroix
- Frenchman who used historic themes and color in romantic music.
- Fallow
- Part of crop rotation when there are no crops.
- Thomas Hobbes
- Englishman who wrote "Leviathan" and believed absolute monarchy was the best form of government.
- Scientific Method
- Way to ask and answer questions by observation and experiment.
- Johannes Kepler
- Confirmed the heliocentric theory and said planets move in elipses.
- Constitutional Monarchy
- Got power from the people, had a democracy, and were not above the law.
- English Bill Of Rights
- Parlimentary power and monarchs were constitutional.
- Charles I
- Wanted absolutism and believed in divine right and was executed.
- Oliver Cromwell
- Leader of the military and ruled England as "Lord Protecter" until 1658.
- Montesquieu
- Frenchman who wrote "The Spirit of Laws" and believed power should be split between legislative, executive and judicial branches.
- Age Of Reason
- The enlightenment.
- John Locke
- Englishman who wrote "Two Treatises of Government" and belived in Life, Liberty and Property.
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Heliocentric theory.
- William And Mary
- In the glorious revolution they replaced James II.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Frenchman who wrote "The Social Contract" and belived in democracy.
- Frederick The Great
- Absolute monarch of Prussia who centralized the government and was devoted to the army.
- Geocentric
- The earth is in the middle of the solar system.
- Louis XIV
- Sun king and a absolute monarch from France and moved the capital to Versailles.
- English Civil War
- Hate of Charles the First and fought over it and had him executed.
- Glorious Revolution
- Suppport of catholisism and catholic monarchy was being reastablished and was replaced by William and Mary.
- Age Of Absolutism
- When absolute rule was starting to come out for rulers to rule over all.
- Galileo Galilei
- Created the first telescope and also proved the heliocentris theory.
- Charles II
- Was king after Cromwell died.
- William Harvey
- Cirulation of blood.
- Scientific Revolution
- New emphasis on observation and reason.
- Peter The Great
- Absolute monarch of Russia who westernised Russia and wanted to be pulled out of isolation and created a navy.
- Absolute Monarchy
- One person in above the law and has all ruling power.
- Voltaire
- frenchman who wrote "Candide" and believed in free speech.
- Isaac Newton
- Defined the laws of gravity.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- German musicain who had a baroque stylewho studied the ideas of the church.
- Divine Right Of Kings
- Absolute monarchs get there power from God.