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22 Cards in this Set
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Is an explanation of how or why something happens. |
Theory |
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Believed that new knowledge could come through experiments that were carefully carried out. |
Galileo |
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Stated that the sun and the planets moved around the earth in circular paths. |
Ptolemy |
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The middle classes. |
bourgeoisie |
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Classes |
Estates |
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The idea that government receives its powers from the people. |
popular sovereignty |
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Written plans of government. |
constitutions |
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A government in which people elect representatives to make laws and conduct government. |
representative government |
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In this system, monarchs held absolute, or total, power. |
absolutism |
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Agreement between rulers and the people. |
Social Contract |
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A law that applied to everyone and could be understood by reason. |
natural law |
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An explanation of the facts. |
Hypothesis |
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This is the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge. |
rationalism |
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An orderly way of collecting and analyzing evidence. |
scientific method |
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She sought to eliminate inequality in education between men and women. |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
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He was the French philosophe who did the most to spread Enlightenment ideas. |
Denis Diderot |
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Born in a middle-class family, wrote many novels, plays, letters, and essays that brought him fame and wealth. |
Voltaire |
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He used natural law to affirm basic democratic ideas such as citizens’ rights and the need for government to be answerable to the people. |
Locke |
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He wrote about English government and society. |
Thomas Hobbes
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Despite continuing scientific breakthroughs, the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo needed to be brought together as one system. This feat was accomplished by an English named
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Isaac Newton |
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He supported Copernicus’s theory but also made corrections to it. |
Johannes Kepler |
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His theory stated that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe. |
Copernicus’s theory
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