Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
French Revolution
Latin American Revolutions
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100

This system is used in Science to test a hypothesis and draw a conclusion based on observable results

The Scientific Method

100

The Enlightenment is also known as the Age of ____________

Reason

100

This man is known for bringing an end to the French Revolution

Napoleon

100

This country featured the most successful slave revolt in world history

Haiti (Saint Domingue)

100

This event inspired the French people to go forward with the French Revolution

The American Revolution

200

Italian astronomer of the 17th century who laid foundations of modern experimental science, developed the first complete astronomical telescope ad confirmed the theories of Copernicus. He was treated harshly by the Catholic church.

Galileo

200

This French philosopher advocated for freedom of religion

Voltaire

200

This period was known for its bloodshed and fear amongst the population, as radicals purged enemies of the revolution with mass executions.

The Reign of Terror

200

This class was the leader of most of the Latin American independence movements

Creoles

200

Napoleon brought this back in the French Colonies, upsetting many people who fought in the French Revolution

slavery

300

Discovered circulation of blood and that the heart serves as a pump

Harvey

300

This English thinker is considered the one of the people who started the women's rights movement

Mary Wollstonecraft

300

French Independence Day is known as _______________

Bastille Day

300

This man is known as The Liberator and was responsible for many Latin American revolutions

Simon Bolivar

300

This term was used to describe people with a combined Spanish and Native American ethnicity

Mestizo

400

Newton is perhaps most famous for these three laws

The Three Laws of Motion

400

This man is known as the father of modern Economics as well as capitalism

Adam Smith

400

This document is considered one of the most important pieces of writing in World History

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

400

This country featured a surprisingly peaceful independence movement from Portugal

Brazil

400

This Estate was responsible for the French Revolution

The Third Estate

500

This is the term used to describe Copernicus' sun-centered theory of the universe

heliocentric

500

Enlightenment Philosophers applied thinking from the Scientific Revolution to the _______________

Social Sciences OR Humanitites

500

The French Revolution began in this year

1789

500

This Roman Catholic Priest was one of the leaders of the Mexican Independence movement

Father Hidalgo

500

Enlightenment thinkers tended to focus on these two concepts in their writings

Freedom and Equality