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| Ambitious rulers were able to increase their royal authority by bringing feudal lords under their control and reducing the influence of what organization? |
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| 3. The explosion of knowledge during the 1500s and 1600s was a result of a new approach to scientific study based on experimentation and observation. What is this new approach known as? |
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| Which Englishmen believed that people have natural rights such as life, liberty, and property? |
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| What document created in 1689 essentially made the English Parliament stronger than the monarch? |
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| The English Bill of Rights |
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| Which Englishmen, the inventor of calculus, showed how the sun’s gravity keeps the planets within their orbits? |
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| What is the contribution of writers and philosophers to the Enlightenment known as? |
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| What are the non-violent revolutions of the Enlightenment? |
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| Scientific, Agricultural, and Industrial |
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| What type of rulers hold the political power at the beginning of the Enlightenment? |
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| The Enlightenment ideas influenced which 2 major violent revolutions? |
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| American and French Revolutions |
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| What Polish mathematician and astronomer used mathematics to show the Earth revolved around the sun? |
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| What was the nickname of Louis XIV, one of Europe’s best examples of an absolute ruler? |
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| Who declared, after observing the sky with his perfected telescope that the Earth revolved around the Sun? |
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| What document signed in 1215 limited the English monarch’s power? |
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