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Chapter 2 Flashcards

1
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ere when paradigm shift occurred and scientific beliefs were challenged and opposed

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Intelectual revolution

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time when people began to base more on science than gods and heroes

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Birth of modern science

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3
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English naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin

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4
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Father of modern psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

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5
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a polish scholar who proposed the sun was stationary in the center of the universe

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Nicolas Copernicus

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The first person who started this slow process of dismantling
Aristotle’s cosmology was_________

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Nicolas Copernicus

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term used to call the model where the sun is the center of the universe

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Heliocentric

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the term used to call the model where the earth is the center of the universe

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Ptolemaic

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Known for his theories explaining the motion of planets

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Johannes Kepler

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10
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passed the duty to kepler to discover planetary orbit

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tycho brahe

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a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician

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Galileo Galilei

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12
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Discovered telescope

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Galileo Galilei

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13
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discovered gravity and invented calculus

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Isaac Newton

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14
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revolution where it is about the origin of our species and is religion vs science

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Darwinian revolution

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15
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Neurological concepts that made an impact on humanities conception

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Freudian Revolution

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16
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region from mexico t guatemala, belize ad parts of honduras and el salvador

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Mesoamerica

17
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where is mesoamerica located

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region from mexico t guatemala, belize ad parts of honduras and el salvador

18
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what are the 5 civilizations

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Olmec, Maya, Aztec, zapotec, teotihuacan

19
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Most advance civilization during mesoamerica

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Maya

20
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the most accurate calendar of the mesoamerica period

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mayan calendar

21
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contains prediction of solar eclipses for centuries to come

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dresden codex

22
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earliest sign of mathematics

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Africa

23
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Period of change that describes the current economic, social, and technological trends

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Information revolution

24
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when was gutenburg’s printing revolution

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1445

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