Chapter 6 Flashcards
Before the scientific revolution, scholars would referred to who or what for their and answers
Ancient Romans, Greeks, and the Bible
The earth – centered view of the universe is called what
The geocentric theory
Starting the mid 1500s scholar started testing Sachin theories, replacing ideaswith new ones, and making huge advancement for future generations. We call this what?
The scientific revolution
According heliocentric theory, what was at the center of our universe
The sun
Gallileo founded moons and around Jupiter, dark spots on the sun, craters of the moon, among other things. Why did Galileo say that what he found was false though?
So the church would not hurt him. He lived under house arrest until he died
What was the first step in the scientific method
Problem or question for observation
Isaac Newton discovered what
Gravity
Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria by using what
tooth scrapings that were put under a microscope
Who’s in one minute believes would eventually become the foundations for democracy in the US
John Locke
Which enlightenment thinkers famous for saying, “I do not agree with a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire
Which alignment thinkers known for adjusting and bettering criminal justice
Beccaria
Which alignment thinkers known for urging women to pursue politics and medicine as a career
Mary Wallstonecraft
According to Rousseau what corrupted people
Civilizations
After Voltaire went to jail the second time what happened to him upon his release
He was exiled to England for over two years
Why did Frederick the great abolish serfdom in the 1700s
He needed the support of wealthy landowners
What was Joseph II known for
He was a radical dude, he ruled Austria, develop the freedom of press and freedom of religion, and abolish serfdom
Which Act made the American colonist sell all of their valuable goods to Britain and no one else
The navigation act
On paper, who should’ve won the war between Britain and America
The British
What are the reasons why American won the revolution
The British were overconfident – dangerous, and really expensive
What are the three branches of government
Executive judicial and legislative branch
True or false: during the middle ages, most scholars thought the earth was the center of the universe.
True
True or false:christianity taught that God deliberately put earth at the center of the universe
Truth
True or false: Copernicus came up with idea for the heliocentric theory, the sun centered universe
True
True or FALSE Galen said that pigs were similar to humans and this is where our anatomy came from and until Vesalius dissected a real human body
False