Chapter 9 Flashcards

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French king who was one of the most successful monarchs of his time and had unlimited power over his poeple

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Louis XIV

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Reingned in Russia and increased the power of the Russian monarchy

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Catherine the Great

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Resulted in the establishment of the Protecturant

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English Civil War

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Led Parliaments army against the kings forces and defeated them

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Oliver Cromwell

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Government founded by Oliver Cromwell after the English Civil War

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Protectorate

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He took the English throne after Cromwell death

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Charles II

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Set limits on royal power, granted the Engish people basic civil liberties and prevented future rulers from being Roman Catholics

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English Bill of Rights

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Signed the English bill of rights in exchange for the throne

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William and Mary

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Change of power in England in 1688 without resorting to war

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Glorious Revalution

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A Greek physician who was also known as the father of Medicine

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Hipporcrates

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Mathematician who wrote Elements and was also known as the father of geometry

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Euclid

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Early Greek astronomer and geography who determine the distance around the earth with great accuracy

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Eratosthenes

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Made significant contributions in the areas of physics geography and optics

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Roger 🥓

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14
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Presented his view that the earth revolved around the sun, not the sun around the earth

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Copernicus

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Used the newly invented telescope for his observations his results supported Copernicus’s ideas

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Galileo Galilei

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Spent much of his life contributing to astronomy and discovered Uranus and made the big telescope

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William Herschel

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Scientist that started treating bodies with chemicals

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His work was based on anatomy by dissecting human bodies

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Andreas Vesalius

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Discovered that blood is pumped by the heart, travels through the body in blood vessels and returns to the heart in the circulatory system

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William Harvey

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Father of modern chemistry

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Believed that rationalism was insufficient and argued in favor of empiricism

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Read the Bible as a historical artifact rather than a revelation from God

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Belief that the path to truth is through human reason

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Belief that man can find knowledge only through experience

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A philosophy that advocates a society that is free from religion
Secularism
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Scientist who wrote "The Sceptical Chymist" a christain who opposet enemies of Christiananity
Robert Boyel