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35 Cards in this Set
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Geocentric |
theory that earth is in the center of the universe |
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scientific revolution |
new way of thinking about the natural world |
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heliocentric |
theory that the sun was at the center of the universe |
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galileo galilei |
astronomer |
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scientific method |
a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas |
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enlightenment |
new intellectual movement |
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social contract |
a created government |
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john locke |
held a positive view of human nature |
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philosophes |
french for philosopher |
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voltaire |
francis marie arouet published 70 books about political essays, philosophy, and drama |
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montesqiue |
devoted to political liberties |
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rousseau |
commited to individual freedom. son of a poor swiss watchmaker |
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mary wollstonercraft |
strong advocate of education for women |
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salons |
social gatherings |
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baroque |
grand ornant design |
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neoclassical |
simple and elegant design |
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federal system |
power divided between national state government |
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nomads |
highly mobile people scavenging for a food source |
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hunter gatherers |
planted things and hunted things |
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neolithic revolution |
also called the agriculural revolution |
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artisan |
skilled workers |
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scribes |
professional record keepings |
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cultural diffusion |
new idea or product spread from one culture to another |
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hammurabi |
a babylonian ruler who made a code of laws |
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theocracy |
government ruled by religious authority |
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loess |
fertile silt/ soil |
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oracle bones |
animal bones and turtle shells priest wrote questions to ask the gods |
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dynasty cycle |
the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement |
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feudalism |
a political system |
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nirvana |
release from selfishness and pain |
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enlightenment |
wisdom |
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janism |
mahavira believed that everything in the universe and shouldn't be harmed |
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palestine |
eastern end of the mediterranian sea |
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hyksos |
rulers of egypt for awhile |
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helot |
peasant forced to live on the land they worked |
