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This is the belief that
reason is the chief source of knowledge. |
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an orderly way of collecting and
analyzing evidence. |
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an explanation of how or
why something happens. |
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| an explanation of the facts. |
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stated that the sun and the planets
moved around the earth in circular paths. |
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In 1543 this man released
a book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly
Spheres. He disagreed with Ptolemy’s view
that the earth was the center of the universe |
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He supported Copernicus’s theory but
also made corrections to it. |
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believed that new
knowledge could come through experiments
that were carefully carried out. |
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the ideas of
Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo needed to be
brought together as one system. This feat was
accomplished by this mathmatishion. |
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One of the most
important scientific thinkers,wrote a book called Discourse on
Method. |
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a law that
applied to everyone and could be understood
by reason. |
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an agreement between
rulers and the people. |
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means that power is
divided among the branches of government:
executive, legislative, and judicial. |
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wrote about English government
and society |
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| contradicted Hobbes. Locke used natural law to affirm basic democratic ideas such as citizens’ rights and the need for government to be answerable to the people. |
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a French thinker, published a
book called The Spirit of Laws. |
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Born in a middle-class family,wrote
many novels, plays, letters, and essays that
brought him fame and wealth |
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was the French philosophe who did
the most to spread Enlightenment ideas. |
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this lady sought to eliminate inequality in
education between men and women. |
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In this system, monarchs
held absolute, or total, power. |
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| representative government |
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a government in which
people elect representatives to make laws
and conduct government. |
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| written plans of government. |
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the idea that government receives its powers
from the people. |
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The French people were divided into
three (blank) or classes |
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came
to the throne. As king, this man was the
most celebrated absolute monarch. |
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ruled from 1740 to 1786. As
Prussia’s king, he strengthened the
army and fought wars to gain new territory
for Prussia. |
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came to the throne of Russia Early in her reign,
this women was devoted to Enlightenment
ideas. |
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named head of a new colonial
army. |
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the Congress issued the Declaration
of Independence. Written by this man of Virginia |
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