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History Exam 2 Flashcards

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Who wrote Discourse on Method in 1637

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rene descartes

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Who was the sun king during absolutism

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louis xiv

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Who wrote social contract and emile

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jean-jacques rousseau

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In this novel Voltaire ridicules enlightenment thinkers

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candide

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Who wrote the Spirit of Laws

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montesquieu

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Ruled Austria from 1780-1790

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joesph ii

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Country that successfully rebelled from France

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haiti

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Who led American naval forces in American Revolution

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john paul jones

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Who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women

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mary wollstonecraft

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The Brothers— are famous for German fairytales

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grimm

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Woman who wrote the chariot

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emily dickson

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Who wrote the charge of the light brigade

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alferd lord tennyson

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Put these in order- Scientific Revolution
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Newton
Galileo
Kepler

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Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Newton

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Put these in order- Britain Constitutional Crisis
James II
Cromwell
Charles II
Charles I
James I

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James I
Charles I
Cromwell
Charles II
James II

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Put these in order- Russia
Elizabeth I
Catherine the Great
Ivan IV the terrible
Peter the Great
Times of Troubles

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Ivan IV
Time of Troubles
Peter the Great
Elizabeth I
Catherine the Great

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Put these in order- North America
Lexington and Concord
Yorktown
Seven Years War
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act

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7 years war
Stamp Act
Boston Tea Party
Lexington and Concord
Yorktown

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Reading- Galileo

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Period- 1615
Country- Italy
Historical- Continued Copernicus- the sun is the center of the universe, he wrote to Duchess Christina insulting

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Reading- Thomas Hobbes

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Period-1651
Country- England
Historical- thought absolutism was the only way for man, Social contract

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Reading- John Locke

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Period- 1690
Country- England
Historical- ‘life, liberty, and property’, natural rights

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Reading- Thomas Jefferson

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Period- 1776
Country- US
Historical- Independence, continued Locke’s theory, state rule themselves

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Reading- Bishop Bossuet

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Period-17th century
Country- France
Historical- Divine Right, citizens never question kings rule but kings must follow rule

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Reading- Romanticism Poet
Emily Dickson

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Romanticism Context-
1730-1830, Western Europe, rejected physical world and focused on thoughts and feelings with songs and fairytales
Emily Dickson
Chariot- 19th century
talks about death in the chariot and flirts with immorality

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