final test unit 6 Flashcards
causes of scientific revolution
scholars refered to ancient greek/roman authors or bibble
mideval scholars belived geocentric model
exploring during the renaissance showed that they didnt know alot
pushed devolopment in austrolonomy,math, they learned things that didnt match old beliefs.
geocentric?
earth in middle
heliocentric
sun in middle
who was copernicus
he belived the heliocentric theory must be right
what did the catholic church do to galileo
warns him to hush, he puts out another book, catholic church brings him to court & forces him to say that it was all made up, kept on house arrest for the rest of his life
what was enlightment
stressed reason, thought,and individual thinking & problem solving
what did issac newton belive
discovered unisersal graviity,scientidic method,wrote one of the most inporant books,belived god created the universe
what were salons
meeting places for those who wanted to discuss politics and new ideas.
what were the core beliefs of the enlightment
reason,nature,happiness,pogress,liberty
who was woltaire
most respected & known philosopher, never stoped fighting for talarance, reason, freedom of religion & speech
what was the frech indian war
starts as british trying to take valuable french land & fur trade
which british acts pushed the colonist to war
british starts taxing colonies to pay off huge war dept (stamp act, tea act)
what was the lexington & concord
1st batttle of revolutionary war
whose ideas did jefferson put in dec of ind
john lock
why did the colonist win the rev, war?
more motavated,british were over confident, cost alot of money, help from others (france)
