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A French Philosophe who wrote a 28 book encyclopedia, he also did the most to spread the ideas of enlightenment.
Who is Denis Diderot?
100
Discovered Gravity, Calculus, and the components of light and color.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
A system of rule in which monarchs held total power and claimed to rule by the will of God.
What is Absolutism?
100
City ruled by Fredrick II in the 1600's-1700's.
What is Prussia?
100
_________ ____________ is the idea that the government receives power from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
Wrote many novels, plays, etc. greatly known for his hate of the Catholic Church.
Who is Voltaire?
200
Womans rights supporter who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
200
An explanation of how or why things happen.
What is a Theory?
200
A city founded by the Russian czar, Peter the Great.
What is St. Petersburg?
200
Voltaire and Diderot were __________.
What is a philosiphe?
300
Wrote about English Government and society during the civil war.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
Used natural law to affirm basic democratic ideas.
Who is John Locke?
300
Equal division of power among branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
300
Where the enlightenment was centered.
What is France?
300
The French were divided into 3 _______ when the revolution began.
What are estates?
400
Became head of a Colonial Army when the Congress tried to settle differences with Britain. One of America's founding Fathers.
Who is George Washington?
400
Developed a correct theory about the universe, where the sun is the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
400
Orderly way of collecting and analyzing evidence.
What is the scientific method?
400
A vast empire ruled by the Hapsburgs in the 1700's
What is Austria?
400
Vesalius published "On the ________ of the Human Body".
What is Structure?
500
Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
A French thinker who published "The Spirit of Laws"
Who is Baron Montesquieu?
500
A written plan of government.
What is a constitution?
500
Where the constitution was written.
What is Philadelphia?
500
The _________ ___________ is the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.
What is the scientific revolution?