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Important People
Monarchs
French Revolution
History Skills
100
Time period when Europeans began to use natural laws and the scientific method instead of traditional teachings to interpret the universe and the natural world.

Scientific Revolution

100
Theory of Gravity, Laws of motion.

Newton

100

The Sun King, built Versailles Palace

Louis XIV

100

One cause of the French Revolution

Estates System, unfair taxation, enlightenment

100

This type of historian would study artifacts left from a civilization.

Archaeologist

200

Process used to solve scientific problems. Includes experimentation and observation.

Scientific Method

200

Telescope, heliocentric theory, house arrest.

Galileo

200

Westernized Russia, built St. Petersburg as a "window to the west."

Peter the Great

200

Doctors, lawyers, merchants in the 3rd Estate. Had knowledge of the Enlightenment and enough money to complain about taxes.

Bourgeoisie

200

This type of source is made at the time of an event

primary source

300

The opposite of Geocentric theory, challenged Church's teaching about humanity's place in the cosmos.

Heliocentric Theory

300

Wrote "Two Treatises of Government." Life, Liberty, Property.

Locke

300

Type of Monarch that has Divine Right, complete control over a country.

Absolute Monarch

300

The National Razor

Guillotine

300

This type of historian would study how people get the things that they need.

economist

400

Time period in European history where philosophers challenged traditional ideas about politics and society.

The Enlightenment or Age of Reason

400

Separation of powers/ three branches of gov't

Montesquieu

400

Type of gov't in which the monarch has to share power with the people.

Limited/Constitutional monarchy.

400

Time period when the radical Jacobins executed 40,000 "enemies of the revolution."

Reign of Terror

400

If a statement contains "best" "worst" "greatest" etc. is most likely...

an opinion

500

Type of monarch that used enlightenment ideas.

Enlightened Despot(s)

500

Women's Education

Wollstonecraft

500

Name one Enlightened Despot

Catherine the Great, Joseph II, Maria Theresa

500

The radical Jacobin who led the ROT, attempted suicide but failed. Beheaded.

Robespierre

500

This type of social scientist would study connections between places and regions.

geographer

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