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| The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of England. |
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| A Dominican friar who introduced Muslim documents to medival universities. |
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| System of representative government that developed in England. |
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| Reigned in Russia (increased power of the Roman monarchy,increased Russian territory,adding land in the West and South of Poland. |
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| English king who, (like his father James The First), asserted the divine right of kings and struggled to defeat Parliaments effort to deny him absolute power. |
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| Took the throne after Oliver Cromwell's death. |
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| Set limits on royal power, granted the English people basic civil liberties,and prevented future rulers from being Roman. Catholic. |
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| War in which Oliver Cromwell led Parliaments army against the kings forces and took Charles The First into custody. |
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| Early Greek astronomer and geographer who determined the distance around the earth with great accuracy,(used Euclid's geometry to make his calculation). |
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| Known as the Father of Geometry; founded a school in Alexandria Egypt during the fourth century BC. |
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| Change of power in England in 1688 without resorting to war. |
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| Known as the Father of Medicine and was a Greek physician who lived around 400BC. (Hipporatic Oath that doctors take today, swearing that they will do no harm to the patient. |
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| Took the throne after Charles The Second's death. |
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| French king who was one of the most successful monarchs of his time. |
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| Monarch of Austria in 1740 |
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| Led the English Civil War army and took Charles The First into custody. |
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| Government founded by Oliver Cromwell after the English Civil War. |
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| Signed the English Bill of Rights in 1689 in exchange for the throne. |
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| A man who presented his view that the earth revolved around the sun (1543) |
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| Another astronomer who used the newly invented telescope for observations (results supported Copernicus's idea) increased magnification of telescope eight times. |
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| Discovered the Laws of Gravity and Motion. |
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| Astronomer who recorded the position and motion of hundreds and thousands of stars; developed a theory of about the orbit comets; accurately predicted that a comet which appeared in 1682, would return in our solar system seventy six years later (later named Halley's comet). |
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| Astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus. |
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| Scientist who stated that the body is made out of chemicals so it should be treated with chemicals. |
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| Developed human anatomy by dissecting human bodies. |
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| Scientist who discovered that the heart pumps blood, the blood travels through the body in blood vessels, and returns to the heart in a circulatory system. |
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| Man who found out a way to prevent smallpox by inventing a vaccine. |
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| Disease that killed or left people terribly scarred (rashes all over the body) |
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| A weakened form of a disease exposed to a person to prevent his getting a serious form of the disease. |
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| Man who contributed to chemistry with his work on gases that produced Boyle's Law. Wrote his book THE SKEPTICAL CHYMIST. |
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| Known as the Father of Modern Medicine. He named oxygen and hydrogen, also developing the metric system (Law of Conservation of Matter- states that matter can not be created or destroyed, but can change form. Lavoisier also assembled the first known list of elements. |
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| Man who decided that only mathmatics led to certainty, by pointing to the foolishness of astrology and alchemy. His approach was a form of rationalism. |
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| Belief that the path to truth is through human reason. |
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| Man who claimed that the bible was written by humans at particular times in history. |
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| Insisted that the ideas of Descartes were not implanted by God in the human mind, but were developed through careful observation of the world. He argued through empiricism. |
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| Belief that the best way to find true knowledge was through experience rather than by human reason. |
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| A society that is free from religion. |
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