Modern World History – Chapter 6 Test Study – Flashcards
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Copernicus
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This polish astronomer concluded that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
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Vesalius
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This British physician introduced a vaccine for smallpox
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Fahrenheit
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This German scientist made the first thermometer
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Fredrick the great
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This Persian king reformed society improving edu, outlawing torture, and granting some religious freedom
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Joseph II
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This Austrian king reformed society improving edu, freedom of the press, and the end of serfdom
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Galen
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He dissected pigs and other animals to out about human anatomy
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Voltaire
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The most brilliant of the philosophes, he used satire to attack the clergy, aristocrats, and the government
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Montesquieu
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He thought the British system was the best because it balanced power between the monarch, cabinet, and parliament
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Rousseau
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He believed in individual freedom
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Descartes
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He pioneered the use of the scientific method in chemistry
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Kepler
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A brilliant mathematician who concluded that the planets move around the sun in a particular pattern, not a circle
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Isaac newton
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This English scientist who wrote about gravitation
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Wollstonecraft
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She believed that women should have the same equal right as men do.
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Bach
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He was one of the greatest composers of the enlightenment
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Robert Boyle
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He dissected human corpses and published his findings
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John Locke
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He believed in three natural rights; life, liberty, and property
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Catherine the great
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This Russian monarch set up a commission to review laws with the intent of reform. Unfortunately, little was accomplished
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Thomas Jefferson
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He wrote the declaration of independence
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Galileo
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This Italian Scientist who built his own telescope
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Francis Bacon
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This English writer used empiricism
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Edward Jenner
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"I think, therefor I am"
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Diderot's
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He wrote the first encyclopedia
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bill of rights
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The first 10 amendments
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Neoclassical
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A simple and elegant Style that borrowed from classical Greece and Rome
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Baroque
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A style characterized by grand ornate designs
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Salons
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Gathering hosted by socialites hoping to attract the brightest thinkers for enlightened discussion and entertainment
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Social contract
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The relationship of ruler and ruled
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Federal System
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This allows for two levels of government, state and federal
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checks and balances
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Our government system has this, built for each branch to have some control over others
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Heliocentric
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This theory says the sun is the center of the universe, planets revolve around it
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scientific revolution
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This was a huge change in our view of thinking. People began carful observations and a willingness to question existing believes in order to reach conclusions.
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geocentric
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Earth centered view of our universe proposed by Aristotle and others.
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Articles of confederation
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Our first national constitution that spelled out our form of government
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Constitution
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This document explains our system of government, It went into effect in 1787.
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Declaration of independence
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Spelled out the philosophe of our government for our founding fathers; it lists the ievances coloniss had against the British govnerment, declared war on Britain.
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enlighted despots
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These absolute rulers tried to make reforms based on enlighted thinking
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Enlightment
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A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought
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scientific method
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a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas
