Chapter 15 : Religious Wars and Expansion

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Posited heliocentric universe in place of geocentric universe

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Deism

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Belief that God created the universe and set it into motion to operate like clockwork

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Rene Decarte

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Enlightenment

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Intellectual revolution in which philosophes stressed reason and natural law

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Galileo

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Italian scientist who formulated terrestrial laws and modern laws of Inertia/evidence

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Laissez Faire

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Economic concept of Adam Smith in opposition of mercantilism

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Isaac Newton

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Formulated the law of gravitation

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Philosophes

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Social critics of the eighteenth century

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Royal Society of London and French Academy of Sciences

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Organized bodies for scientific study

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Tabula Rasa

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Concept of the mind as a blank sheet that formulated ideas based on impressions

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Cesar’s Beccaria

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Wrote Crime and Punishment

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Concordet

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Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind

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Denis Diderot

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Encyclopedia

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David Hume

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An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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John Locke

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Two Treatises on Government; Essay on Human Understanding

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Montesquieu

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Spirit of the Laws; Persian Laws

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Rousseau

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Social Contract; Emile

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Adam Smith

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Wealth of Nations

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Voltaire

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Philosophical letters; Candide

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Aristotelian Ptolemaic Cosmology

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Geocentric view of the universe that accorded with church teachings

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Francis Bacon

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Inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving to the truth

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Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis

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Treaty that ended the Habsburg-Valois Wars

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Concordat of Bologna

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Francis I agreed to recognize the supremacy of the papacy over a universal council

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Huguenots

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Question 25

Henry of Navarre

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Question 26

Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

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Question 27

War of The Three Henrys

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A civil conflict among factions led by the Catholic Henry of Guise, Protestant Henry of Navarre, and King Henry III ...

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Politiques

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Small group of moderates of both faiths who believed that only the restoration of strong monarchy could reverse the trend towards collapse

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The Edict of Nantes

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Published by Henry in 1598 that granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and liberty of public worship

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Union of Utrecht

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Seven northern provinces, led by Holland, declared their independence from Spain

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Spanish Armada

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Thirty Years War

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Question 33

Gustavo's Adolphus

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Question 34

Peace of Westphalia | 1648

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Recognized the sovereign, independent authority of more than three hundred German princes, each governing his territory and make peace Also denied papacy the right to participate in German religious affairs, reducing the role of the church in European politics

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Prince Henry "The Navigator"

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