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Unit 1 - Enlightenment Flashcards

1
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Monarchy

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Rule by king

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Government

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System for controlling society

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3
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Aristocracy

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Rule by nobles

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4
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Cleisthenes

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Enacts more reforms

Balance power between rich and poor

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5
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Direct democracy

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Citizens could propose laws

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6
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Democracy

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Rule by the people

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7
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Pericles

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Increased # of paid jurors

Enabled poorer citizens to participate in government

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8
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Reforms of Solon

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Citizenship based on wealth not heredity

Council of 400

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9
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Twelve tables

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Enforced written law code carved on tables

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Legacy of Rome

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Written legal code applied to everyone fairly

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Patricians

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Aristocratic landowners (hold most power)

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Plebeians

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Common farmers artisan merchants w the right to vote

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Roman law

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Believes law based off reason and justice
Citizens had equal treatment
Innocent until proven guilty
Law that’s unfair set aside

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14
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John Locke

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Natural and human right

Life liberty and property

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15
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Montesquieu

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Separation of powers

Created 3 branches of governernment

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16
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Voltaire

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Freedom of thought and expression

Made fun of religious intolerance

17
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Beccaria

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Civil rights including abolishment of torture

18
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Voltaire

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Religious freedom

19
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Hobbes

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Social contract

People give up rights for good ruler

20
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Mary Astell

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Against inequality of marriage

21
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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Published an essay called A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1972

22
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Adam Smith

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Individuals acting on their own towards the economy

Wanted to end mercantilism have more free trade

23
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More secular outlook

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Ppl began to focus on themselves instead of the church

24
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Emilie du chatelet

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French aristocrat who trained in physics and math

25
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justinian

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emperor that ordered unified laws compiled to code

26
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popular sovereignty

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government express will of ppl

27
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where did the enlightenment take place

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france

28
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when was the enlightenment

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1700s

29
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divine right

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god like

30
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what did thomas jefferson write

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declaration of independence

31
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oligarchy

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government of the powerful few

32
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“women work same jobs as me” about

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Mary wollstonecraft

33
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before enlightenment society was a…

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monarchy

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