SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
NEW IDEAS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
FRENCH REVOLUTION 1
FRENCH REVOLUTION 2
LATIN AMERICAN
INDEPENDENCE
100
Sweeping change.
What is revolution?
100
Explanation of data (based on the scientist's observation of collection of data).
What is hypothesis?
100
People who favored independence from Great Britain.
What is American patriots?
100
New legal system created by Napoleon based on Enlightenment Ideals, which included equality before the law, right to choose a career, and religious toleration.
What is Napoleonic Code?
100
People of mixed African and European descent. They were on the lowest rung in society along with native Americans and enslaved Africans.
What is mulatos?
200
Scientists who study the motions of stars and planets.
What is Astronomer?
200
Anti-Church teachings.
What is heresy?
200
Basic rights given to all people.
What is Human Rights?
200
Swift seizure of government.
What is coup d'etat?
200
Descendants of Portuguese or Spanish settlers born in the colonies. Looked down upon by Peninsulares.
What is creoles?
300
To be exiled, or thrown out, of a church or group.
What is excommunication?
300
Oval orbits.
What is ellipses?
300
The unjust use of power.
What is tyranny?
300
When the National Convention set up the Committee of Public Safety to run the country it fell under the control of a lawyer named Maximilien Robespierre. He and his supporters killed anyone suspected of being disloyal to the revolution or who might favor the return of the monarchy.
What is "The Reign of Terror"?
300
Colonial leaders born in Spain or Portugal. They stood at the top of government and society.
What is peninsulares?
400
Earth-centered
What is Earth Centered?
400
New approach to studying the world, proposed by English thinker Francis Bacon (all ideas based on tradition or unproven data should be thrown out.) Made up of several steps: observe, hypothesize, predict, test predictions and modify hypothesis.
What is scientific method?
400
Social classes
What is estates?
400
Government consisting of delegates from the Third Estate. (The Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly because they wanted more votes because they represented more people and the king refused.)
What is National Assembly?
400
People of mixed Spanish and native American ancestry. They worked as servants, laborers, or the overseers of plantations; and had few, if any, rights.
What is mestizos?
500
Sun Centered.
What is heliocentric?
500
School of thought that says all knowledge is based on reason, founded by Rene Descartes.
What is rationalism?
500
Nobles (Second Estate).
What is aristocracy?
500
Document adopted by National Assembly that said government got its power from the people, not the king; and stated basic freedoms.
What is "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"?
500
Dictators who ruled by military force. They made it hard for democracy and prosperity to grow. Some tried to modernize and build, but most bowed to the upper class & did little to help the poor.
What is caudillos?
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