The Enlightenement Flashcards
Beccaria proposed reforming this
Justice system
Forced to recant heliocentric belief
Galileo
European art style associated with absolutism
Baroque
Congress = House Representatives and…
Senate
Mozart, Haydn, & Beethoven
Composers
Death penalty punishment
Capital
Source of “scientific” knowledge
Bible
Social gathering
Salon
Newton discovered this
Gravity
Type of ruler
Despot
Catherine the Great attempted to reforms this
Tax
Articles of confederation
Constitution
Age of reason
The enlightenment
Proposed heliocentric theory
Copernicus
“First servant of the state”
Frederick The 2
Wrote Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Colonists protested this as “taxation without representation”
Stamp act
President’s branch
Executive
Philosophers believed strongly in this
Progress
Developed scientific method
Bacon