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The Eggheads of Science
Vive La France
After Napoleon
All Things Considered
100
This area underwent a revolution before industrialization occurred.
What is agriculture?
100
The idea that the Earth is the center of the universe.
What is geocentric theory?
100
This was the largest group in the Estates General.
What is the 3rd Estate or the peasantry?
100
Cheap, popular drink in 18th-19th century England.
What is gin?
100
His work on natural law as a huge influence on the American founding fathers.
Who was John Locke?
200
This area emerged as the initial leader of the pack where industrialization was concerned.
What is Britain?
200
Put forth by Copernicus, the idea that the sun was the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric theory?
200
Was originally a prison, but had been converted to a storage place of gunpowder and arms.
What is the Bastille?
200
European diplomacy predicated on this idea.
What is balance of power?
200
This idea is based on a world-machine with God as its mechanic.
What is deism?
300
Industrialization began here on the European continent.
What is France, Germany, Belgium?
300
His three laws of motion along with work in physics, optics, and mathematics made him the pre-eminent scientist of his day.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
The most radical group of revolutionaries in France who helped the Jacobins to achieve power.
Who are the sans-culottes?
300
Only European nation with a declining population in the 19th century.
What is Ireland?
300
Their ranks included Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau. Sought to revolutionize Europe via reason.
Who are the philosophes?
400
His invention of the steam engine helped propel the Industrial revolution.
Who is James Watt?
400
He creates the 1st fully functioning telescope in Europe.
Who is Galileo?
400
His Republic of Virtue was marked by the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
400
Dominant figure of the Congress of Vienna and a noted conservative.
Who is Metternich?
400
His return was not as glorious as he had hoped and his end was just as sudden in Belgium.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
500
By the 1860s, this had begun to replace iron as the metal of choice.
What is steel?
500
His ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD determined that the heart was the beginning point of blood circulation.
Who is William Harvey?
500
This pledge by the 3rd estate demonstrated their resolve not to allow business as usual at the Estates-General meeting.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
500
He argued that population must be held in check for any progress to take place.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
500
The best statement of laissez-faire economics was made in 1776 by this man.
Who is Adam Smith?