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WH Final Flashcards

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Scientific Revolution

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A new way of thinking about the natural world

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Boyle

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Father of modern chemistry

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3
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Geocentric

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Earth-centered theory

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Microscope

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The new invention helped Leeuwenhoek discover bacteria

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5
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Karl Marx

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He wrote the Communist Manifesto

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Thomas More

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He wrote Utopia

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Baldassare Castiglione

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Wrote the Courtier

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Prince Henry

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Set up a navigation school sponsored by Portugal

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Bourbon

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Royal French family name

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Thomas Jefferson

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Wrote the Declaration of Independence

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Phillip II of Spain

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Known as the most Catholic King

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Frederick the Great

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He reformed the justice system in Prussia

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Catherine the Great

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She took steps to modernize reform Russia

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Joseph II

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He abolished serfdom in Austria

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15
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Diderot

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He wrote the Encyclopedia

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Beethoven and Mozart

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Leading composers of their time

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Daimyo

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Large landowners in Japan

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Adam Smith

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He came up with the Economic idea of Laissez-faire

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Strike

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When workers cease to work to send a message to the owners

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Newton

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Law of universal gravitation

21
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Galileo

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He used a telescope to study the heavens in 1609

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Kepler

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A brilliant mathematician who concluded that orbits were elliptical

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Copernicus

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Came up with the heliocentric theory

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Francis Bacon

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Developed the scientific method

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Voltaire

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François-Marie Arouet

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Montesquieu

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He came up with the idea of separation of powers

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Descartes

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He developed analytical geometry

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Rousseau

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The most radical of the philosophers

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Locke

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He proposed 3 natural rights: Life, liberty, and property

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Tabula Rasa

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Blank slate

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Heliocentric

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Sun-centered theory

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Salon

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A meeting place for thinkers

33
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Baroque

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Group ornate style of art

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Social contract

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The relationship between the governor and the governed

35
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Wollstonecraft

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She pushed for women’s rights

36
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Hobbes

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He wrote the Leviathan

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Descartes’ stated:

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“I think, therefore I am”

38
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Beccaria

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He wanted to abolish torture and capital punishment

39
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Voltaire was critical of:

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The Catholic Church

40
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Scientific method

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A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas through observation and testing a hypothesis

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