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i hate social studies Flashcards

1
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economic system based on free market principals and supply and demand

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capitalism

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2
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forces that according to capitalism control the price of goods

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no restrictions

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3
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model absolutist country that became the strongest country in europe

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france

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4
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treaty that ended the 30 years war

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westphalia

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5
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astronomer forced by the church to recant the heliocentric theory

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galileo

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author and philosopher that laid out the case for capitalism

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adam smith

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7
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book written by adam smith

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the wealth of nations

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8
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groups of artisans that controlled prices and standards

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guild

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9
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mathematician who proved planets travel in elliptical orbits

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kepler

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name given to the scientific advances that took places in the late 1600s

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scientific revolution

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11
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polish astronomer that started the scientific revolution

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copernicus

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12
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the belief that the Earth was the center of the universe

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geocentric

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13
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the belief that the sun was the center of the universe

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heliocentric

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14
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the book that copernicus published the year he died

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on the revolutions of heavenly spears

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french philosophers of the enlighenment

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philosophe

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philosophe who believed in freedom of speech and religion

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voltaire

17
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philosophe who believed in seperate branches of government

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demontesquieu

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physicist who discovered the theory of gravity

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newton

19
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political movement that sought to improve government and society through reason

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the enlightenment

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political philosopher who believed governments existed to protect peoples’ life, liberty, property

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locke

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us document inspired by locke

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declaration of independence

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us document inspired by montesquieu

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the constitution

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us document inspired by voltaire

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bill of rights

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