Scientific Revolution
Marked the emergence of modern science and influenced the Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
Denied Descartes ideas and argued that knowledge was taken from the environment
Locke
Called the Estates General to ask to raise the taxes
Louis XVI
The political body that had control over France during the Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Wrote The Principia which described the three laws of motion
Newton
Intellectuals from the Enlightenment
Philosophes
An assembly made up of all three Estates
Estates General
A strong military leader in France who later secured his power by becoming Consul for Life
Napoleon
Discovered that the sun was the center of the universe and the earth rotated on an axis
Copernicus
Argued for the separation of powers
Montesquieu
Made from the Third Estates, wanted to meet and create a constitution and made the Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly
Leader of the Haitian Independence Movement during the French Revolution
Toussaint l’Ouverture
Argued the separation of mind and matter and was the father of rationalism
Descartes
Created the Encyclopedia which made knowledge more accessible
Diderot
Who asked the question: "What is the Third Estate?"
Abbé Sieyès
Holding power based on a person's ability rather than their birth right
Meritocracy
What was the time frame of the Scientific Revolution?
Mid-1500s to the late-1600s
Believed that women had reason and therefore should have the same rights as men
Wollstonecraft
Elected by universal male suffrage and replaced the the Legislative Assembly
National Convection
Created by Napoleon to help the economy recover
Bank of France