Terms from the Unit
Key People
14th and 15th Century
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
100
Government voted in from people of a community that the leader will be governing.
What is Democracy
100
Discovered gravity with the help of a particular fruit...He also invented calculus.
Who is Newton.
100
What are three crises that occurred during the 14th and 15th century?
What are bad weather, disease, religious divide, crime and social unrest.
100
Played a central role in developing the scientific method. Stated that the universe did not revolve around the Earth, but instead it was the contrary.
Who is Copernicus.
100
This leader abolished serfdom, but unfortunately died shortly after.
Who is Joseph II.
200
All goods can be bought and sold without control or additional prices put on goods. Ex. NAFTA
What is Free Market
200
Made changing discoveries about the planets and the moon with observation through a telescope.
Who is Galileo.
200
What caused the black death?
What is bacteria found in the stomach of fleas that lived in rats fur that were brought over to Europe from Asia via trade routes.
200
The period of time where inventions such as the microscope and numerous other discoveries transformed science and medical studies (1500's- 1600's).
What is the Scientific Revolution.
200
This group of people believed that use of science and reason would lead to human progress.
Who is the philosophes.
300
Persons or things ranked one above the other. Ex. Assistant to the Regional Manager
What is Hierarchy
300
Thought people were basically reasonable and could cooperate with each other. Believed that governements should protect the natural right of the people. If a leader became a tyrant, he/she has broken the social contract and the people had a right to rebel.
Who is Locke.
300
The plague spread through the filthiness of this avenue.
What is poor street conditions filled with mud, garbage and human excrement.
300
The philosophes urged this group of people to ban censorship on the press and education. They believed that this strict censorship limited people from learning new things.
Who is the government of the 1700's-1800's.
400
Ideas, beliefs, and values which are used by groups of people to understand reality and their interpretation of the world.
What is Paradigms.
400
Believed power of government should be divided among separate branches to decentralize power.
Who is Montesqueiu.
400
After the 100 Years War, why did many people turn to crime?
What is because soldiers were used to a life a luxury and when they returned home they did not have that anymore. They had no skills to work and no money so they turned to using their elevation in status and stealing to receive what they desired.
400
What was used instead of logic that revolutionized scientific theories in this time period?
What is Mathematics.
400
This person wrote the Encyclopedia.
Who is Denis Diderot.
500
Thinkers who expanded on the idea of natural rights. making theories based on human behavior to advance human society.
What are Philosophes
500
Believed human nature was basically good and it was society that corrupted people. Believed in the "general will" for society.
Who is Rousseau.
500
There was a religious divide in 14th and 15th century Europe. Explain.
What is two popes came into place (Radical Pope Urban VI and Clement VII). One was mostly favoured by the French, the other mostly by the English. The divide occurred on contemplating who was went to be the divinely chosen pope.
500
Name two breakthroughs that occurred during the Scientific Revolution.
What is; learned that blood was not stationary and circulated the body, begin to create vaccines to ward of harmful illnesses, and a more accurate drawing of the human body was developed.
500
The Encyclopedia was a big deal at the time it came out. Why?
What is because there had never been a book like it before. It was the original "Google". It took an interest in every day activities that common people did, which literature had not done before this time.
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