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44 Cards in this Set
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What toppled the idea that the earth was flat and the center of the universe?
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Scientific Revolution
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Who was the Polish astronomer that said the sun was the center of the universe?
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Copernicus
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Copernicus said the planets circle around the ___.
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Sun
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Who said that the earth was round and spins on its axis around the sun?
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Copernicus
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Copernicus did this before his death.
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He publically printed his ideas
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Who used mathematics to prove Copernicuses work?
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Kepler
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Why could Kepler work without intererences from the chuch?
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He was a protestant
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Proved planets moved in ellipses.
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Kepler
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Who said the sun stays in its place?
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Kepler
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Itallian mathemagician
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Galileo
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Galileo built the _______.
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Telescope
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This man was trialed by the church and was forced to withdraw his findings and publically state he was wrong
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Galileo
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Who expanded the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo?
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Issac Newton
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Newton discovered the concept of gravity from an ____.
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Apple
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His theories suggested formulas that could be used to describe an orderly world and universe.
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Newton
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Enlightened thinkers believed in _______ _____.
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Individual rights
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Philosophes believed the universe was a machine governed by laws and ____ was the master mechanic.
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God
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Natural Law is...
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the enlightenment's idea of universal moral law based on reason.
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His ideas were based on tradition and unproven facts should be discarded.
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Sir Francis Bacon
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Bacon said that the truth can only be found by using the _____ _____.
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Scientific Method
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Saw mathematics as the perfect model to clear knowledge.
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Descartes
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Believed truth was reached through reason
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Descartes
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Said, "I think, therefore I am"
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Descartes
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"I disapprove of what you say, but but I will defend to the death of your right to say it"
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Volitaire
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Seperation of powers
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Montesquieu
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Said that the power belonged to the people
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Rousseau
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He said that people have the right to rise up against the government to carry out needed changes.
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Rousseau
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Worked hard to improve government
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Enlightend despots (absolute monarchs)
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Attempted to make lives of serfs/peasents better
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Enlightend despots (absolute monarchs)
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Enlightened despots built _____ and _______ ___.
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hospitals and elementary schools
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The enlightened despots ended many forms of _______.
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Torture
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stuart kings don't get along well with ________.
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Parliment
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Stuart kings believed in this.
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Divine right
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Parliment wants more control of _______.
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government
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Oliver Cromwell was a ______.
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Puritan
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During the English civil war he lead the Roundheads and defeated calvaries.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Became a military dictator after Rump Parliment fails to govern property.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Cromwell forced harsh _____ restrictions on people of England
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Puritan
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Never opposed parliment because didn't want to be like his father
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Charles II (Merry Monarch)
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This says no individual can be held in prison without battles or bloodshed
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Habeas Corpus
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This group of people depend on the cabinet
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Anne, George I, and George II
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Became Englands FIRST prime minister and gains control of cabinet
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Robert Walpole
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This outlawed cruel and unusual punishment
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English Bill of Rights
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Gave freedoms to englishmen- right to appeal to king and speak freely in parliment
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English Bill of Rights
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