Unit 5 Review
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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- He was Fench. He wrote The Social Contract (government is a contract between rulers and the people). Believed Humans are naturally good and free rely on instinct, *Government to protect common good, best one is democracy.
- Louis XIV
- Louis was recognized as one of the most powerful monarchs of Europe
- Oliver Cromwell
- Leader of the military, ruled England as " Lord Protector" until 1658
- The Enlightment
- Also called the "age of reason", and took place in the 18th century. Developed as a result of the Scientific Revolution
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Born in Austria. Musical prodigy, Traveled threw Europe. Rebelled against church rules, Classical Style , Piano concerto
- Isaac Newton
- Founded laws of gravity
- Frederick the Great
- Frederick was the ruler of Prussia (a German state) He centralized the goverment and put it under his control
- Absolute Monarchs
- Rulers who had absolute power, they were not limited by a legislature or laws
- Galileo Galilei
- He built telescope and used it to prove the "Heliocentric Theory"
- Montesquieu
- He was French, Wrote The Spirit Of Laws ( best form of government involves seperation). Believed power within government should be divided among branches: legislature, judicial, and executive
- Peter the Great
- Peter became the ruler of Russia when he was 22. Beleieved country was westernized in oreder to be successful
- Voltaire
- He was French. Wrote Candide (most famous satire). Believed in freedom of speech," I disspaprove of what you say, but I will defend till death for you to say it." Religious tolerance should triumph over religious fanaticism and be seperation of US bill of church and rights.
- William Harvey
- Believed blood circulates throughout the body
- John Locke
- He was english,Wrote two treatises of governmeant. Believed people are good and reasonable. People have three main natural rights life, liberty, and property (Declaration of Independence)
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Born 1605 in Germany. Studied music all his life. Traveled and brought new music ideas to the church- Challenged traditon. Baroque style: complex, multilayered
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- He believed the sun was the center if the solar system, and that earth revolves around the sun
- Constitutional Monarch
- Kings had limited power
- Miguel de Cervantes
- : Don Quixote. Consider the First Novel, about a man who wanders through the countryside thinking that he's a knight
- Scientific Method
- A way to ask and answer questions scientific questions by making observations and doing experiment
- Geocentric
- Earth-centered model of the universein which the planets rotated in crystal spheres
- Eugene Delacroix
- Born in France. Romantic:emotion not reason. Use of color, Historic Themes
- English Civil War
- Absolutism contributed to the growth rights of Englishmen and the creation of Constitutional Monarchy in England
- Thomas Hobbes
- He was english, Wrote Leviathan, he argued the state must have central authority to manage behavoir. Believed people are evil, absolute monarch was best government to keep order
- Johannesn Kepler
- Founder if the modern astronomy, also that planets moved in eclispe