Dunaway vocab Flashcards
A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers
Absolutism
The idea that God created the monarchy & that the monarch acted as Gods representative on earth.
Divine right
When scholars replaced old assumptions with new theories
Scientific revolution
A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas
Scientific method
Agreement by which people created a government
Social contract
The social critics of France in this period
Philosphe
New intellectual movement that stressed reason thought and power of individuals to solve problems
Enlightenment
The idea that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
Heliocentric theory
Regular social gatherings to educate women
Salon
Adaption/revival of the classical or the artistically style of the late 1700s
Neoclassical
