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a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances
Separation of Powers
The Storming of the Bastille resulted in…
Paris officially falling to the revolution
During the Enlightenment period, the goals of the philosophers were to…
change the world!
The Scientific Revolution thinker developed the idea of the heliocentric system.
Nicolaus Copernicus
What is one of the three influences that lead to the French Revolution?
Disparities in income, enlightenment ideas, budgetary spending of the government
the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people of France
Bourgeoisie
The National Assembly took issue with the relationship between the French monarchy and the…
Catholic Church
The idea that people had adopted laws & gov’t in order to preserve their private property was called ___________ by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
Social Contract
the planetary bodies continue in elliptical orbits around the sun because every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called gravity
Universal Law of Gravitation
Who was the head of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Paris Commune?
Maximilien Robespierre
a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth
Geocentric
The government established in France after the overthrow of the Directory in 1799 with Napoleon at its head was known as the…
Consulate
The deist theory that God (or a god) had created the universe and then left it to run without his interference and according to its own natural laws.
Clock-workers Theory
Johannes Kepler detailed the laws of planetary motion based on the heliocentric system, explaining that planetary motion was not circular but ________________.
Elliptical
The document that established the functions of the United States government before the Constitution was known as…
Articles of Confederation
a system of thought based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
Rationalism
The French document adopted in 1789 that listed the “natural and imprescriptible rights of man” to “life, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.”
Declaration of the Rights of Man
What denomination of Christianity was born as a result of the Enlightenment?
Methodist
During the Scientific Revolution, there were major breakthroughs in medicine and chemistry, which of the following were apart of those breakthroughs?
Blood flowing through the heart in a circuit
Boyle's Law
Pacal's Law
Naming of chemical elements
In order to ensure no country became too powerful, Britian, Prussia, Austria, and France agreed to meet in conferences to discuss common interests and maintain peace in Europe. This conference was known as…
Concert of Europe
political philosophy holding that people should be as free as possible from government restraint and that civil liberties – the basic rights of all people – should be protected
Liberalism
What two roles did the National Convention of French serve when in power?
What phrase did the philosopher Descartes coin for an explanation of rationalism?
I think therefore I am
earth-centered; a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth
Geocentric System
At the result of the Seven Years War in North America, the English won…