vocab unit 5
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- Heliocentric
- having the sun as the center
- Thomas Hobbs
- a book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
- 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
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
- William Harvey
- he is the scientist who decovered that u have one system of blood and it cer cualtes throught ur body.
- Isaac Newton
- he descovered the theory of gravity and the , English mathematician and physicist
- Charles I
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
- John Locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- Montesquieu
- French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
- Voltaire
- French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
- Geocentric
- having the earth as the center
- Oliver Cromwell
- English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)
- Enlightenment
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- Galileo Galilei
- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- Jean-Jaques Rousseau
- French social control, gov't argument, between govt and people
- Constitutional monarchy
- constitution that explains the powers of the government and owes allegiance to a monarch
- Age of Reason
- a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
- Age of Absolutism
- Time period where kings and queens ruled domains with total control over their people.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- German baroque organist and contrapuntist
- Scientific Revolution
- the era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made, and accepted beliefs were questioned
- Johannes Kepler
- Assistant to Brahe; used Brahe's data to prove that the earth moved in an elliptical, not circular, orbit; Wrote 3 laws of planetary motion based on mechanical relationships and accurately predicted movements of planets in a sun-centered universe; Demolished old systems of Aristotle and Ptolemy
- Glorious Revolution
- the revolution against James II
- 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.
- Eugene Delacroix
- French romantic painter, master of dramatic colorful scenes that stirred the emotions. Greatest romantic painters. Fascinated with remote and exotic subjects. Masterpiece: Liberty Leading the People
- Frederick the Great
- Ruler of prussia. He centeralized the gov't under his control. He devoted his life to the prussia army.
- Nicholaus Copernicus
- Stated his heliocentric theory that the sun is the center of the universe
- Divine rights of kings
- In the 1600s and early 1700s, Europeans believed in the ________________ which meant they believed the king's authority came directly from God.
- 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
- fallow
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
- English civil war
- civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I
- Louis XIV
- Louis was reconized as one of the most powerful monarchs af Europe. He ruled for 72 yrs. he was also known as the sun king.
- Absolute monarchy
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- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 6 year old prodigy. Wrote more than 600 pieces of music. Gained instant celebrity. Died at 35. Music helped define a new style of composition
- Scientific method
- a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses
- Peter the Great
- Ruler of russia. , czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government