Vocab
Define Guarantee
To assure fulfillment of a condition
What was Nicolaus Copernicus? (profession)
Mathematician
Who were the main people to influence the intellectuals of the Enlightenment
John Locke and Isaac Newton
Frederick abolished what
torture except for in treason and murder
The term "British" refers to
Both the English and Scot
Define eventually
in the end
What did Johannes Kepler do to the Ptolemaic system
He destroyed it
Newton believed what about the physical world
That it with everything in it was like a giant "world machine"
Catherine II or Catherine the Great ruled from
1762-1796
The glorious revolution resulted in
the Bill of Rights
Define rigid
inflexible, unyielding
Who was the first European to study the heavens
Galileo Galilei
What did Charles-Louis de Secondat write in 1748
"The spirit of the laws"
During what time was the war of the Austrian Succession
1740-1748
In what year did William Pitt become the head cabinet
1757
Define federal system
a form of government in which power is shared between the national and state governments
Kepler showed what about the orbits of the planets around the sun
That they were not circular
The greatest figure of the enlightenment was
Francois-Marie Arouet
Charles the VI died without a
male heir
Many of the rights of the bill of rights were derived from
the natural rights
An alteration proposed or affected by parliamentary or constitutional
What did the universal law of gravitation describe
That planetary bodies continue in elliptical ORBITS AROUND THE SUN BECAUSE EVERY OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE is attracted to every other object by force called gravity
What was Voltaire known for
His criticism of christianity
Frederick faced disaster until
Peter III
The proposed constitution created a
Federal system