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Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This is the use of inductive and deductive reasoning to use observation, experimentation, and reasoning to answer questions about the natural world.
What is scientific method?
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
What were enlightened monarchs?
What are theaters and/or opera houses?
Is the idea that all human knowledge comes through what the senses can experience.
What is empiricism?
He was one of the first Europeans to challenge the classical view of a geocentric universe and he instead believed in a heliocentric universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This series of legislation was passed in Britain to allow wealthy landholders to purchase the common lands and consolidate them into single farms.
What were the Enclosure Acts?
He was an enlightened monarch that expanded Prussian territories and reformed the judiciary with the application of competence exams.
Who was Fredrick II (Fredrick the Great)?
This change in society would emerge from the growing class with disposable income.
What is the Consumer Revolution?
He advocated for separation of powers and a system of checks and balances within the government.
Who is Montesquieu?
Most medieval science and understanding of anatomy and physiology was formed by his works in the 2nd century.
Who is Galen?
These ineffective shelters were created in large European cities to try and provide support for abandoned children.
What are foundling hospitals?
This was Maria Theresa's son who attempted to enforce the Edict of Toleration in Austria.
Who was Joseph II?
He was a Baroque composer who wrote numerous cantatas and received patronage from royalty and aristocrats.
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
Newton published his findings on gravity in this work.
What is the Principia?
The Enlightenment would elevate childhood and promoted this concept also known as tabula rasa?
What is the blank slate theory?
This enlightened monarch allowed Denis Diderot to publish his works within their country.
Who was Catherine the Great of Russia?
What is Rococo Art?
These economic enlightenment thinkers argued that land and labor were the primary sources of wealth.
What are Physiocrats?
He would correct medieval understanding of the circulatory system by discovering the human body has one single system of blood.
Who is William Harvey?
This innovative thinker would study cowpox to eventually create a vaccine for smallpox.
Who was Edward Jenner?
The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 combined with the influence of the enlightenment, would user in legal protections for this concept even including Jews.
What is religious tolerance?
This musicians work focused on secular topics, order, and balance in his music rather than drama and emotion.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?