Unit 3
Jethro Tull invented this piece of farm machinery that metered out seeds in straight lines and then covered them with dirt.
What is a seed drill?
This new approach to acquiring knowledge is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning.
What is the scientific method?
A body of law adopted in 1804 that intended to stabilize France and reinforce the principles of the French Revolution through equality for all male citizens, religious toleration, and protection of property rights.
What is the Civil or Noapoleonic Code?
He was a leader in the Scientific Revolution and is mostly known for his theory of the heliocentric universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This French document called for equality, free speech, representative government and popular sovereignty.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
A movement that allowed public land (commons) to be purchased, usually by large landowners, contributing to a growing population of landless peasants and migration into cities to find work.
What is the enclosure movement?
A belief that God created the world and set it in motion then left it to run on its own.
What is deism?
A war between 1756-1763, it involved all major European powers and started as an attempt by the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the rich province of Silesia that had been taken from them by Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia. Some call it the first world war.
What is the Seven Yearʻs War?
She was the heir to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Her empire was attacked repeatedly by Frederick the Great.
Who is the Archduchess Maria Theresa?
This event brought together the major nations of Europe to reestablish peace and restore the balance of power after the Napoleonic Wars.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
An economic system that aims to increase a nation's wealth and power by regulating trade and accumulating bullion
What is mercantilism?
The period during the late 18th/early 19th centuries when there was a marked increase in the consumption and variety of luxury goods and products by individuals from different economic and social backgrounds.
What is the Consumer Revolution?
This body of the Estates-General was made up of 2 percent of the French population and included the nobilty who owned 35% of the land.
What is the Second Estate?
Originally a German princess, she forced her Russian husband to abdicate the throne and declared herself empress of Russia.
Who is Catherine the Great?
An era when thinkers used science to approach the problem of food shortages and famine, resulting in the Agricultural Revolution in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
What is the Enlightenment?
Under this political system, a stateʻs power was directly connected to the strength of its ruler, and its ruler did not accept any restrictions on their authority as they believed their power came from God.
What is absolutism?
John Lockeʻs most important work in which he outlines peopleʻs basic and inalienable rights and also argued that people will willingly give up some rights (social contract) to the government for protection.
A movement that included religious revivals and a growing use of feelings and emotion in art and literature.
What is the Romantic Movement or Romanticism?
She was a Romanticism author known for her famous book, "Jane Eyre".
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
A French lawyer and writer, his most famous work was "The Spirit of Laws" in which he argued for three separate branches of government.
Who is Montesquieu?
A time period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel were composers in this movement that dominated European art and was inspired by the religious fervor of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
What is the Baroque Movement?
The political party that began the 10-month Reign of Terror led by Maximilien de Robespierre with an aim to kill opponents of the French Revolution.
Who are the Jacobins?
He said, "man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
A country that broke free of Mongol control in the 1400s and had a goal of modernizing to compete with European countries.
What is Russia?