Mrs.Englard Exam# 1 Flashcards
The Ottoman Empire came to power after what empire?
Byzantine empire
Who are the two absolute rulers who believed in religious tolerance?
Akbar the great and Suleiman the magnificent
What did both Mughal and Ottoman Empire both worship?
Islam
Which city did suleiman expand the Ottoman Empire by modernizing the military
Constantinople
What do u call japan who has a series of island and has an irregular coastline?
Archipelago
Which two country influenced japan?
Korea and China
What isolated japan by keeping it out Christian influence
Tokugawa shogunate
What do u call the time period where there was a new wave of thinking and questioning
Enlightenment
What was the enlightenment also known as?
The age of reason
Who believed that people are born selfish and need an absolute ruler to control them?
Hobbes
What did John Lockes believe in?
John Lockes believed that all people have natural rights of life, liberty, and property. He also says that people have the right to overthrow the government that fail to protect these rights
What did Baron de Montesquieu believe in?
He believed that in order to prevent kings from being too powerful, the government should be divided into three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) so that there was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances
Who poked fun of authority and protested for freedom of speech and religion?
Voltaire
Who petitioned for the rights of women?
Mary Wollstonecraft
What did Rousseau believe in?
Rousseau wrote the social contract and he believed that society is a social contract (an agreement in which all people agree to work for the common good in society)
Who was known as the enlighten despot?
Catherine the great
What was the scientific revolution?
It was a sudden and dramatic change in how people viewed the world. Science and reason were used to explain the world.
Who was Copernicus?
Astronomer who developed the Heliocentric theory which is the idea that the planets revolve around the sun
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Astronomer who proved that Copernicus was correct. He was put on trial by the Catholic church contradicted theirs.
What were some effects of the scientific revolution?
It resulted in the spread of new ideas throughout Europe, challenged the traditional authority of the Catholic church since they proved that many of their ideas were wrong, and the new ideas of this period led directly to the enlightenment.
What were some key ideas of the enlightenment?
Philosophers believed that society could be improved by using reason and natural laws (universal rules that are always true), governments receive their authority from the people (not from god), democracy and this period and the scientific revolution encouraged the spread of new ideas and the use of reason
What were the key effects of the Enlightenment?
Philosophers believed that people could overthrow unfair government which it helped cause political revolutions in France, Latin America, and the United States and enlightened despots who were European kings and queens who believed in enlightenment ideas and rules using their principles.
What is a political revolution?
An event where the people of a country overthrow an existing government and create a new government
