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What did the Church think of the Aristotelian view of the universe?

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They supported it as it supported the Medieval biblical view that humans were the center of creation

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What is the Copernicus theory of the universe?

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He was the first to propose a heliocentric view of the universe, all things revolve around the sun

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Did the Church like the copernican view of the universe?

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No, it opposed their ideas

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What is universal gravitation

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Theory developed by Isaac Newton which was an set of mathematical principles that explained motion specifically motion of planets

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Where was the law of universal gravitation featured

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In Newton’s mathematical principles of natural philosophy or the principia

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Who created the modern scientific method

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Bacon and descarte are responsible for the modern scientific thinking

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What did the two makers of the scientific method contribute

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Bacon contributed the empirical method and descarte gave deductive reasoning

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Who was Fontanelle

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He made ideas much more accessible, and made scientific ideas and findings of the time more popular and easier to read

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What are the causes of the scientific revolution

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Chairs in mathematics, scientific methodology, problems in navigation, and critical analysis of texts

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Did the pope and church support the scientific revolution

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The pope did not support the scientific revolution because it threw out many preconceived medieval biblical views, the pope favors the Aristotelian view of the universe, he doesn’t like it as seen when he jailed Galileo

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What did Locke outline in his essay concerning human understanding

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Locke said man is born with a tabula rosa or blank slate and society shapes him, therefore the mins is a product of sensory input

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What is Cartesian dualism

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Developed by Descartes, said all things should be split up into mind and matter, or physical and spiritual

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What we’re voltaire said views on government

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Voltaire was friends with Catherine and Frederick, so he approved of absolutism, or more specifically the enlightened despot

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What were Roussea’s views on women?

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Roussea thoughts that women should be confined to the home

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How did Roussea’s view of women trend with philosophers,

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It went against the general thoughts of philosophers, most thought women should be politically free and have more rights

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What is Roussea’s General will?

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It is an early form of democracy, a ruler rules in the interest of the people, basically decides on the people behalf

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What is the encyclopedia

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Written by Diderot, his goal was to change the general way of thinking and learning within society, encyclopedia contained various essay of philosophes, was basically a one stop shop

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Who was Emanuel Kant?

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German philosopher, advocated for the freedom of the press, and created the phrase dare to know

also thought skepticism and doubt were healthy, was part of the later enlightenment, thought people should question things and find out more for themselves

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who was david hume

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  • part of the later Scottish enlightenment

* argued against faith, natural law, and even reason and logic itself

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what were some major reforms of frederick the great

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  • supported education
  • abolished serfdom on crown lands, but not at all
  • religious toleration, but not for jews
  • abolished capital punishment
  • encouraged immigration and agricultural growth
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summarize frederick the greats views of reform and his reforms

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  • Frederick saw himself as a servant of the state
  • his reforms benefited the power of the state
  • while the peasants did not benefit
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summary pf bayle’s historical and critical dictionary

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  • Bayle’s dictionary advocated for complete toleration of ideas
  • said a person should be free to worship any religion or no religion at all
  • criticized the catholic church when they tried to force people to belive things
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who was Catherine the great

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  • ruler of Russia
  • plans to abolish serfdom were disrupted when pugachev rebellion hit, her goal was to impliment a series of enlightened laws
  • because of the the pugachev rebellion she was forced to side with the nobles to squash the rebellion
  • serfs living conditions actually plumited
  • nobles did not have to pay taxes or do service, this increased their power to level never seen before
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what was the pugachev rebellion

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  • in austria during the rule of catherine the great

* pugachev impersonated himself as peter the third, and advocated for an end to all serfdom

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what were maria theresa’s changes made to Austrian society

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she made lords pay taxes, most influential ruler in helping the living conditions of the serfs

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what were Joseph the seconds changes to labor in russia

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  • Neither nobles or serfs liked it
  • nobles did not like it because they had no workers
  • serfs didnt like it because it was very hard to become free as they had to pay their way out serfdom
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what were salons

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  • parlors started in paris
  • elite women would gather and talk about social and political things
  • only for aristocracy
  • not sponsored by the gov, cuz the salons talked bad about the gov
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What were Montesquiea’s letters

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  • mocked french government
  • he did not the absolutism of Louie 14
  • he called for the separation of government into three branches
  • favored the British system of limited monarchy
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summarize the partitioning of silesia

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  • Frederick the great of Prussia invaded Maria Theresa of Austria’s silesia
  • Prussia was a decisive military power and efficiently defeated Austria
  • this made Prussia into the greatest of all german states and a great european power
  • This sparked the seven years war because Maria was determined to regain silesia
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Summarize the partition of poland

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  • Catherine the Great of Russia in effort to expand her empire even farther attacked and scored victories against the turks
  • This began to disturb the balance of power in Europe between Russia, Austria, and Prussia
  • Frederick then proposed that Turkey be let off and because nothing could get done in poland that each of three countries would take a large slice of Poland
  • Catherine accepted the deal and thus made all the three powers somewhat equal while Poland Dissapeared from the map
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what are mestizos

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people who are half spanish and half native American

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what are mullatos

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people who are half black and half white

33
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what are creoles

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a person with european and black descent

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summarize the seven years war in the eastern european theatre

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  • sparked when Frederick of Prussia invaded maria theresa’a Silesia
  • Theresa was determined to get back Silesia, she formed an alliance with France and Russia, whos goal was to win Prussia and then divide it up
  • Frederick attacked from all sides, but it looked like they were going to lose until Peter 3 of Russia came to power and called off all attacks
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what were the effects of the seven years war in the eastern theatre

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  • Frederick began to implement his reforms and became actually committed to the enlightenment
  • he simplified the laws
  • and reenergized agriculture and industrialism
  • but he did not change Prussia’s social structure or give rights of religious freedom to the jews
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summarize the seven years war in the western theatre

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  • *France vs. England competing for the colonial empire
  • englands goal was to conquer canada
  • France scored victories but england destroyed the french fleet
  • this shut down frances commerce, then endland stormed quebec and defeated the french
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summarize the wealth of nations

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  • written by Scottish later enlightenment thinker Adam Scott
  • book was considered the bible of capitalism
  • expanded on the theory of Laissaez Faire, by stating that the economy will run better by itself than being run by the gov
  • said the economy runs on natural laws, but we should tinker with it
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facts about methodism, and why it was attracyive

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  • created by John Wesley
  • it was appealing because it said that everyone could be saved, so people were energized because they thought they had a chane to be saved since everyone could be saved
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what is a spinster?

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an unmarried woman who took advantage of the cottage industry and accumulated a lot of money by turning raw materials into textiles

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why did people marry late?

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  • they had to be able to afford it
  • had to wait for the dowry
  • usually had to wait till their inheritances came
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list some 18th century medical science achievements

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  • William Harvey discovered the circulatory system and published a book on it
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope and looked at bacteria
  • Edward Jenner created the vaccine for smallpox
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What is the Aristotelian view of the universe?

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It is a geocentric view, everything revolves around the earth and all heavenly bodies are perfect

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