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Absolutism
England
Scientific Revolution
Philosophers
Government
100
Idea that the king or queen is only answerable to God who has placed them on the throne
What is divine right of kings?
100
English monarch who defeated the Spanish Armada
Who is Elizabeth I?
100
Term for the universe model that places the sun at the center
What is heliocentric?
100
Belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
What is rationalism?
100
Three natural rights proposed by John Locke as belonging to all humans
What is life, liberty, and property?
200
The first king of Prussia
Who is Frederick I?
200
First English document to limit the power of the king, signed in 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
200
Scientist who defined the laws of gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
Philosopher who determined, "I think, therefore I am"
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
Three branches of government that should function to balance one another
What is executive, legislative, and judicial?
300
First Russian leader to use the term czar
Who is Ivan IV?
300
King of Spain who sent the Armada to attack England
Who is King Philip II?
300
Scientist who determined planet orbits are elliptical, not circular
Who is Johannes Kepler?
300
Author of the work, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Who is John Locke?
300
Founder of the study of economics, wrote Wealth of Nations
Who is Adam Smith?
400
Royal family of the Austrian Empire
Who are the Hapsburgs?
400
Term for Puritans who defended Parliament in the English Civil War
What is the Roundheads?
400
Scientist who dissected bodies for knowledge of how human beings work
Who is Vesalius?
400
English philosopher who insisted scientists should use inductive reasoning to gain knowledge
Who is Francis Bacon?
400
Author of The Social Contract which suggests citizens have a right to change their form of government
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
500
Russian dynasty that lasted from 1613 to 1917
Who are the Romanovs?
500
Full name of the man chosen in the Glorious Revolution to take the throne of England
Who is William of Orange?
500
One (of two) famous female scientists of the scientific revolution
Who is Margaret Cavendish or Maria Winkelmann?
500
Author of, The Spirit of Laws
Who is Baron von Montesquieu?
500
Proposed deism, the idea that God set the universe in motion to run according to natural laws
Who is Voltaire?