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Absolutism/Monarchy
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History
10th Grade
02/10/2011

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Skeptic
Definition
Philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain.
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Enlightment
Definition
European movement in which thinkers attempt to apply the principals of reason to scientific method.
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Consitituonal Monarchy
Definition
System of governing in which the rulers power is LIMITED.
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Heliocentric
Definition
the idea that the earth and the other planets revloved around the sun
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Social contract
Definition
Agreement by which peope define and limit their individual right, creating and organizing society and goverment.
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Absolutism
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Monarchy has all executive power and those powers are not controlled by other forms of power.

(dictator)

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Divine right
Definition
God decides all, God decided to make me Queen/King by birth, God has all the deceisions of rules.
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Scientific revolution
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These newly invented tools included the microscope, thermometer, Isaac newtwon
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