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A book arguing that the government was a contract between the people and it's ruler

Social Contract

100

Believed there should be an absolute rule by kings

Thomas Hobbes


100
An empirical method of gathering knowledge and testing ideas/hypotheses

Scientific Method

100
Used to study planetary bodies and the sky/universe

Telescope

100

A monarchy that is limited by a basic set of laws/protections of the people

Constitutional Monarchy

200

A spin off of the "a declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen" that said women should also be given rights

A Vindication on the Rights of Women

200

Believed the government should be overthrown if it fails to protect the general will of the people. Wrote "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

John Locke


200
The sun is at the center of the universe

Heliocentric


200
Rules on how the universe moved and physics, created by Isaac Newton

Newton's Three Laws of Motion

200

Leader of the French Revolution that would later be executed by a Counter Revolution

Robespierre 
300

Wrote during the French National assembly that argued for a constitution

A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

300

Believed in free speech and freedom of religion

Voltaire

300

Rights that belong to people simply because they are people

Natural Rights


300

Laws on the structure of the universe and how planets moved

Planetary Motion

300

King during the French Revolution that incurred large amounts of debt, was later executed by the National Assembly

Louis XVI

400

Book written by Galeileo that asserted certain facts about the universe and the stars, first stated that Jupiter had 4 moons

Starry Messenger

400

Argued for a separation of Powers in governmental bodies

Montesquieu

400

The belief that reason can be used to make discoveries about things around us

Rationalism

400
Idea that we are kept on Earth by this force because of Earth's Mass, first theorized by Isaac Newton

Theory of Gravitation

400

Belief that the Kingship is given by God and God's will

Divine Right of Kings

500

Written by Descartes which would become the most famous book on Philosophy and meaning of life. Included skepticism and the quote "We ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful."

Principles of Philosophy 

500

Argued that women should be given the same rights as men, Wrote "A Vindication on the Rights of Women"

Mary Wollstonecraft 

500

Social critiques that applied reason to all parts of life including morality, love, death, and suffering

Philosophy 

500

A right or ownership to specific invention for a number of years, thought to be created by Venetian Glass workers

Patent

500
Queen of France during the French Revolution, famously thought to have said "Let Them Eat Cake"

Mary Antionette