Unit 5 Review
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- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Musical prodigy, traveled through Europe, rebelled against church rules, classical style
- Age of Absolutism
- 1650-1789, a purposeful attempt by European rulers to attend their royal or dynastic control over all aspects of life in the lands they ruled
- Isaac Newton
- Tryed to explain the motion os the universe
- John Locke
- English, people are by nature good & reasonable. 3 main rights life, liberty, & property
- Charles I
- 1600-1649, tried to advocate the Divine Right of kings & bring more absolutist policies to England
- Age of Reason
- witnesed inventions & innovations in technology that stimulated trade and transportation
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Traveled & brought new music ideas to the church-challenged tradition,Baroque style
- Charles II
- 1660, he was aware of the limitations of his position
- Oliver Cromwell
- English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)
- English Bill of Rights
- Due to the laws restricting their power, English monarchs starting with William & Mary are considered constitutional monarchs
- Glorious Revolution
- Known as "glorious" because there was no bloodshed in England - James fled England & gave up the throne
- Montesquieu
- French, Power within the gov. should be divided among branches of gov. the legislature, judical, executive
- Peter the Great
- 1671-1725, the ruler of Russia when he was 22, trippled the size of Russia
- Eugene Delacroix
- Artist, Romantic, Use of color, Historic themes
- Scientific Revolution
- 1550-1700 when there was a new emphasis on observations & reason in science, rather than a reliance on traditional knowledge
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Considered the first novel, about a man who wanders through the contryside thinking that hes a knight
- Absolute Monarchy
- a monarchy in which the ruler's power is unlimited
- William & Mary
- As part of the conditions of coming to power, William & Mary had to accept the English Bill of Rights
- Frederick the Great
- 1713-1740, ruler of Prussia, centralized the government and put it under his control.
- William Harvy
- Thought we had 2 kinds of blood dus to 2 different vein colors
- Louis XIV
- 1643-1715,recognized as one of the most powerful monarchs of Europe, ruled for 72 years, known as the sun king
- Geocentric
- Popular system of the universe in the Middle Ages, earth-centered model of the universe in which the planets rotated in crystal spheres
- Rousseau
- French, Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts
- Fallow
- no crops
- Enlightenment
- 18th century, it developed as a result of the scientific revolution. they where greatly impressed with the accomplishments of the Scientific Revolution and became open to new ideas
- Scientific Method
- It is a way to ask & answer scientific questions by making observations & doing experiments
- Divine right of kings
- Believed that they had to be chosen by God to rule
- Thomas Hobbes
- English, people are by nature, evil & that the natural state of life is nasty brutish & short
- Galileo Galilei
- He used the telescope to prove the heliocentric theory
- Johannes Kepler
- He thought that the planets went around in ovals around the sun
- Voltaire
- Free speech
- Constitutional Monarchy
- A monarch (king/queen) is the official head of state but their power is limited by a constitution
- English Civil War
- War broke out between Parliaments supporters & the kings supporters
- Nicholas Copernicus
- He thought that the sun was the center & the plants went around the sun in circles
- Heliocentric
- Sun-centered