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Scientific Revolution And Enlightenment Flashcards

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Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

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Mozart

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Symphony No. 9 Scherzo

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Beethoven

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Piano Sonata No. 13: Moonlight Sonata

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Beethoven

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Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

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Bach

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Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus

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Handel

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Believed the earth revolved around the sun

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Galileo

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Invented the worlds first vaccine

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Edward Jenner

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Three laws of motion

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Introduced legal reforms and freedom of the press
Supported freedom of worship
Abolished serfdom and ordered peasants to be paid for labor with cash

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Joseph the II

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Promoted religious tolerance, end of torture and capital punishment
ALL FAILED
Gave her Noble’s absolute authority

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Catherine the great

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New trend: Romanticism

Wrote for: piano, string quartets, and string symphonies

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Beethoven

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Francois Marie Arouet
70 books+: political essays, philosophy, history, fiction, & drama
Sent to prison 2x’s

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Voltaire

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Made the encyclopedia

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Denis Diderot

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Novel: Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe

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“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”
Torture should never be used
Punishment should be based on seriousness of the crime
Influenced criminal law in North America and Europe

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Beccaria

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People are inherently good

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Locke

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People are inherently evil

People give up rights to a strong ruler and gain law and order

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Hobbes

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A period in the arts, visual and musical from 1600-1750

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Baroque

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Large drawing rooms where hostesses held social gatherings

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Salons

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Enlightenment views in the articles soon angered both the French government and the Catholic Church
Censors banned the work

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Encyclopedia

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New classical

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Neoclassical

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Carefully crafted plots
Used suspense and climax
Explored characters thoughts and feelings
Usually about everyday people overcoming major obstacles

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Novel

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Many philosophers believed the best form of government was monarchy (ruler respected people’s rights)
Supported philosophies but had no intention on giving up power

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Enlightened despots

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Sun is the center of the universe

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Heliocentric

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Earth is the center of the universe

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Geocentric

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Life, liberty, and property
Purpose of the government is to protect these rights
Foundation of democracy

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Natural laws

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Aristocrat & lawyer devoted to the study of political liberty
Studied history of Ancient Rome

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Montesquieu

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Committed to idea of individual freedom
Disagreed with other enlightenment thinkers
All people were equal
Civilization corrupted peoples natural goodness

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Rousseau

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Agreement among members to sacrifice some individual freedom for state protection

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Social contract

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Study of nature of knowledge, reality, and existence

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Philosophy

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Movement that emphasizes reason and individualism rather than tradition

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Enlightenment

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Published essay called vindication of the rights of women 1972
Argues with Rousseau that women like men need education as well

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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A gas law

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Boyles law

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