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This Italian scientist provided evidence for a heliocentric solar system and a rotating earth. These discoveries helped to disprove the geocentric or Ptolemaic system.
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Galileo
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Building on the work of many other scientists and using truely modern scientific method, he discovered the laws of gravitation.
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Newton
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The Scientific Revolution is significant to the study of history because of all of the following EXCEPT.....
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This revolution completely rejected empiricism. This is not true.
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T or F? The ideas of the Enlightenment created a spirit of restlessness and challenged the existing monarchical governments. It provided the intellectual underpining for a series of revolutions in the western worls and offered a template for political, social, and economic reform |
True
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True or False? The Glorious Revolution put a temporary hold on absolutism in Great Britain. It would not resurface for 100 years when the British monarchs finally regained power over Parliament. |
False... Parliament gradually gained more power over the British monarchs. Today Queen Elizabeth is a figurehead |
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All of the following statements are true about the American Revolution EXCEPT
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French intervention had little bearing on the successful outcome of this revolution This is false. The French played a crucial role in men, materiel, and money. |
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The first Latin American colony to obtain its independence was _____________. It was also the only independence movement that was started and achieved by the underclasses. Use the name that we use today for this country.
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Haiti
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The _________________ is the name given to the months of quasi-judicial executions and murders from late 1793 to the summer of 1794. The leader of the Jacobins, Robespierre was very influential during this time period.
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Reign of Terror
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True or False? A major consequence of the French Revolution and Napoleon was a surge of nationalism in France and in the countries threatened or invaded by France. |
True
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Consequences of Napoleon's reign and conquests include all of the following EXCEPT.....
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The end of revolutions in Europe
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