scientific revolution
the geocentric model of the universe that prevailed in the middle ages?
Ptolemaic system
how did the government function?
through the separation of powers.
what was the new type of monarchy that emerged in the late 18th century?
enlightened absolutism
what was the new artistic style that blew up in the 1730s?
rococo
what did the native American offspring become known as?
mestizos
what do we call the "social sciences"?
economics and political sciences
who is considered by many to be the founder of the European and American movements for women's rights?
mary Wollstonecraft.
how long did Catherine the great rule for?
from 1762 to 1796
who is credited with making Prussia a great European power?
Frederick the great
who was rejected from the University of Mexico because she was a woman?
Sor Juan Ines de la Cruz
name the four great mathematicians who had a profound impact on astronomy.
Galileo, Newton, Ptolemy, and Kelper
who were the two seventeenth-century Englishmen who influenced ideas of enlightenment?
issac newton and john locke
who was a true child prodigy of his age?
mozart
who was the only ruler to have made truly radical changes based on Enlightenment ideas?
joseph II
what countries made up great Britain in the 1700s?
England and Scotland
what changes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries helped natural philosophers develop new views?
the works of Ptolemy, Archimedes, Plato, the telescope, and microscope and the printing press.
Diderot's most famous contribution to the enlightenment was the ___________ or classified dictionary of the science, arts, and trades.
encyclopedia
the enlightenment brought changes in what
art, music, and literature
what caused the seven years war?
Maria Theresa refused to accept the loss of Silicia. she rebuilt her army while working diplomatically to separate Prussia from its chief ally, France.
how did Great Britain become the worlds greatest colonial power?
the British won many wars and battles and eventually took over huge amounts of land.
how did Vesalius and Harvey disapprove of many of Galen's theories?
they dissected humans, where Galen dissected animals
many enlightenment philosophes _______ the christian churches
attacked
the eighteenth century was important in the development of the European ______?
novel (history of tom jones)
list all the countries in the world that fought in the seven years war?
france, Austria ,Prussia, Eaurope, India, North America ,and Russia
list the freedoms guaranteed under the American bill of rights?
freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, assembly, the right to bear arms, protection from unreasonable search and arrest, guaranteed trial by jury, due prosses of law, and the protection of property rights.