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Sci. Revolution
Enlightenment
Enlightened Absolutism
Seven years War
American Rev.
100
The theory that everything (including the sun) in the universe revolves around the Earth.
What is Geocentric theory?
100
A room in a wealthy French home where men would often sit and discuss philosophy and other ideals of the time.
What is a salon
100
A Monarch ruling with enlightened ideals
What is Enlightened Absolutism
100
This war was fought in America and was part of the Seven years War
What is the French and Indian War
100
American Colonist protest to British taxation where they dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea party
200
Theory that everything revolves around the sun.
What is Heliocentric Theory
200
The belief that any religion or beliefs of others than the standard one of the time was accepted or treated equal.
What is religious toleration
200
The belief that God or a divine power appointed a ruler to their position and their decision are from God.
What is Devine Right
200
American colonists or militia
Who did the British use in America to do most of the fighting?
200
5 people died in this protest gone wrong.
What is the Boston Massacre
300
Procedure used by scientist to solve a scientific problem.
What is the scientific method
300
Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau (All acceptable)
What is one name of a French Philosophe at that time?
300
the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters. AKA a ruler has all the power.
What is absolutism
300
When captives were kept in a hole in a wall in India and 43 died.
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta
300
Property Rights and equality
What are two ideas central to the Revolution
400
Gravity
What did Isaac Newton discover when he was hit in the head with an apple?
400
The theory that we are all born with blank minds
What is tabula rasa
400
Russian Ruler from Russia that was friends with Voltaire and used many enlightened policies
What is Catherine the Great
400
wars are expensive .
Why did Britain tax the colonist after the war?
400
Life, Liberty, Property
What are John Locke's inalienable rights.
500
The scientist that discovered that planets travel in elliptical orbits.
What is Kepler
500
Time period in history where people begin to understand the world through reason.
What is The enlightenment?
500
a system in government where not one person or group has all the power. The power is distributed evenly.
What is checks and balances
500
The belief that everyone should be treated equally.
What is egalitarianism
500
People began to see each other as equal to each other and it was the 1st revolution to dethrone a king.
What is the most radical and significant thing about the American Revolution in history?