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This term describes a time period which used reasoned observation and systematic measurement to assess all things.
scientific revolution
Who found blood circulates through the body?
Harvey
Who discovered planetary motion?
Kepler
Who was first to claim the heliocentric theory?
Copernicus
Who developed the telescope?

Gallileo

Who discovered the laws of gravity?
Newton
What was formed from the scientific revolution?

scientific method using reasoning and observation

What is absolute monarchy?
King/Queen with divine right to solely rule
Name some absolute monarchs?

Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Peter the Great

What were the two main characteristics of absolute monarchies?
Centralized power
divine right
What is divine right?

Belief that God has chosen one person to rule

Who was the absolute monarch of France who built the Palace of Versailles?
Louis XIV
Frederick the Great emphasized what?
Military Power
Peter the Great was known for wanting to?
westernize Russia
Political democracy rests on the principle that government derives power from?
consent of the governed
What were some of the English freedoms established during this time period?
jury trial, Magna Carta, and common law
What battle was fought in England that beheaded Charles I?
English Civil War
Who became leader after English Civil War?
Oliver Cromwell, Roundheads
With the monarchy re set on the throne of England, the parliament did not want a Catholic on the throne. The parliament had two new monarchs take over the throne and they were?

William and Mary-Glorious Revolution

What document did William and Mary signed which was significant in changing the monarchies powers?
English Bill of Rights
What developed during Englands parliament development?

political parties developed

Enlightenment ideas influenced what revolution?
American
What did Hobbes right and what did he believe?
Leviathan/monarchy
What did John Locke write and what did he believe?
Two Treatises on Government
life, liberty and property
influenced Jefferson Declaration of Independence
What did Montesquieu write and what did he believe?
The Spirit of Laws/three branches of government/influenced the Constitution
What did Jean Jacques Rousseau write and what did he believe?
The Social Contract/ contract between rulers and people and people can remove leader if does not keep contract.
What did Voltaire believe?

Separation of church and state and religious tolerance

The Enlightenment Age fueled what ?
Democratic Revolutions
Name some causes of the French Revolution?

Influence of American Revolution
People Starving
Influence of Enlightenment Ideas

What event in 1789 began the French Revolution where King Louis XVI was beheaded?
Storming of the Bastille
Who took over at the monarchy was dead in France?
Robespierre/Reign of Terror
Who stepped in to end the Reign of Terror and Robespierre?
Napoleon
What is another name for the enlightenment period?

Age of Reason

Two enlightenment composers were ?
Bach
Mozart
Painter of the Enlightenment who focused on revolutionary type paintings?
Delacroix/Liberty Leading the People
Who wrote Don Quixote and what new literature genre did he create?
Cervantes/first novel
What changed in painting during the enlightenment?
portraits/lifelike/natural scenes
What were some improvements in technology and institutions during the Enlightenment?

all weather roads
better farm tools
Ship design

Having better farm tools led to what revolution?
Agricultural Revolution
Speaking out against the Catholic Church like Gallileo did is called...

Heresy

This means the earth is the center of the Universe and what the Catholic Church believed.

geocentric
This term means sun centered universe.
heliocentric theory

These steps are used in experiments and was developed by Francis Bacon.

Scientific Method
In the English Civil War, these were the supporters of Charles I.
Cavaliers
This was when thousands of French persons were guillotined after the French Revolution. We call this time period...
Reign of Terror

What are the 3 Estates of early French society?

1ST Clergy
2nd Nobles/Royalty
3rd peasants
What revolution took place in England to remove James II, a Catholic King.
Glorious Revolution
Who were the monarchs in the Glorious Revolution?
William and Mary

What did William and Mary sign that made their reign a constitutional monarchy?

English Bill of Rights
Napoleon's lasting legacy is
Napoleonic Code
US documents that contain Enlightenment ideas
Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution

What revolution influenced the French revolution?

American Revolution

Invented small pox vaccine
Jenner
Discovered bacteria
Pasteur