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Revolution Flashcards

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In the 16th and 17th centuries, the area of scientific advancement that most captured the learned imagination was

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Astronomy

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The Polish astronomer _____ main contribution to the scientific revolution was a suggestion of the earth moved around the sun in the circle

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Copernicus

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_____ theory is explained in his treatise entitled “on the revolution of the heavenly spheres”

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Copernicus

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Copernicus adopted many elements of the Ptolemaic model book transfer them to a _______ model

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Heliocentric

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The Danish astronomer ______ vigorously oppose Copernican theory

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Tycho Brahe

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The German astronomer devised mathematical formulas to explain the Copernican universe

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Johannes Kelper

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A major champion of inductive reasoning was

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Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon’s contribution to the scientific revolution can best be described as the promotion of the potentially unlimited possibilities of

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Empiricism

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The major scientific question that didn’t solve us how the _____ move in an orderly fashion

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Planets

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Newtons greatest work was called

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Principia Mathematica

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Did not make significant contributions to the scientific revolution primarily because they were traditionally barred from institutions of European intellectual life

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Women

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John Locke believed that human beings were _____ _____ i.e. having no inborn ideas

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Blank stares

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Toland and later Enlightenment writers professed to be deist, regarded God as a divine _____ _____, setting nature to work and then becoming aloof to man.

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Water maker

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The writers and critics who fostered the attitude of changing or form during the Enlightenment were called

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Philosophes

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The slogan “crush the infamous thing” refers to Voltair’s attitude toward

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Catholic Church

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In “Candid”, Voltaire attacked both war and

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Religious persecution

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17
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The encyclopedia project was led by

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Diderol

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18
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In the spirit of the laws, Montesquieu admired the ______ Constitution as the wisest

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English

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Rousseau’s doctrine of the general will lead him to conclude that people must be forced to be

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Free

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The European enlightenment scholar who had the greatest direct influence on the US Declaration of Independence was

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John Locke

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During the Enlightenment, ______ culture provided a pivotal role for women as purveyors of new ideas

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Salon

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22
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According to _____ _____, women’s perceived inferiority resulted primarily from their inability to obtain the proper dictation, the threat they posed to male domination and politics, and my reputation for a lack of virtue

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Mary Wollstoncraft

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23
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On the eve of the French Revolution, the French monarchy’s greatest problem was the inability to handle the _____ on a sound basis

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Finances

24
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Louis XVI called _____ in order to find a collective solution to pressing financial problems and to avoid national bankruptcy

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Estates General

25
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Those who swore the famous ______ _____ _____ promise to create a constitution for France that better reflected at social composition

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Tennis court oath

26
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The fall of the ______ in 1789 incorporated the working people of Paris into the revolution

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Bastille

27
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The civil Constitution of the clergy, which brought the church under the control of the French state, was introduced by the _____ _____

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National assembly

28
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Can best be described as peasant disturbances that destroyed Châteaux in feudal records

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Great Fear

29
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The most significant contribution of the women’s March to the French Revolution was that the ____ moved to Paris where he was constantly under pressure from popular violence.

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King

30
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Issuing government bonds called assignats, selling possessions of the Catholic Church, and removing restrictions on international trade were all attempts made by the _____ _____to solve the debt problems of violence.

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National assembly

31
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The war against ____ in 1792 radicalize the revolution and lead to a second revolution at overthrew the monarchy and established a republic

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Austria

32
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The ______ ______ refers to the execution of political prisoners and criminals as counter revolutionaries

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September massacre

33
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The sans-culottes favored greater economic equality and relief from _____ shortages

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Food

34
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Giving French women the right to bear arms was the goal of the _____ of France

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Citoyenne

35
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The mountain was a group of radical

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Jacobins

36
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“Virtue without terror is fatal; terror; without which virtue is impotent” was a part of the statement made by

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Roberspierre

37
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The Levee en masse directed nearly all French citizens to become involved in the _____ effort

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War

38
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The victory of the Lord Nelson at _____ in 1805 guaranteed British control of the sea for the rest of the war

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Trafalgov

39
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The Treaty of _____ on March 9, 1814 provided the restoration of the bourbon monarchy

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Chaumont

40
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Crippling the ability of the British to wage war by cutting off trade between Britain and the continent where the aims of Napoleons

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Continental System

41
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The Battle of ______ in 1815 was Napoleons final defeat

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Waterloo

42
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The primary goal of the Congress of Vienna appears to have been the creation of a stable ____ ____ ____ system in Europe

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Balance of Power

43
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The ______ ______ was revolutionary in the sense that it set the standard for evaluating knowledge in the western world.

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Scientific revolution

44
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The phrase “I think, therefore I am” is attributed to

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Descartes

45
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The British anti-slavery movement led by ______ ______ was successful in outline the slave trade in 1807

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William Wilberforce

46
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What was Tycho Brahe’s contribution to science

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Made the most important observations of the star since antiquity

47
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What was the source of most Europeans knowledge of the Ottoman Empire

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Illustrations and reports from travelers

48
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Who is regarded as the founder of laissez-faire economic policy

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Adam Smith

49
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Greatest expansion of Russia since 1689 occurred under whose reign

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Catherine the Great

50
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When did France enter the American Revolution

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1778

51
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In what manner was Louis XVI executed

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Guillotine

52
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What were the proclaimed goals of the French Revolution

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Liberty, equality, and fraternity

53
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Queen Marie Antoinnette was executed when

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October 16, 1793

54
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What title did Napoleon assume upon seizing power

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Consul, Emperor

55
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In what year was the battle of the nations fought

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1813

56
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What nations belong to the holy alliance

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Russia, Prussia, Austria

57
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When did San Martin liberate Peru

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July 28, 1821

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