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Unit 7 Vocab Flashcards

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A new way of thing about the natural world

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Scientific Revolution

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Plows elegiac and astronomer

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Nicholaus Copernicus

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That the sun is in the center of the universe

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Heliocentric theory

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Brahes assistant and brilliant mathematician

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Johanna’s Kepler

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17 year old Italian student

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Galileo Galilei

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A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas

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Scientific method

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An English Politician and writer

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Francis bacon

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Scientist that created the system of geometric

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Rene Descartes

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Great English scientist

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Isaac Newton

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A movement that put science into all of society and reason

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Enlightenment

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Agreement by which people created government

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Social contract

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Philosopher that believe people could learn and Improve from experiences

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John locke

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Life liberty and property

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Natural rights

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French word for philosophers

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Phliosophe

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Francois Marie arouet

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Voltaire

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Famous french writer that devoted himself to study political liberty

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Montesquieu

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Division of power among different branches

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Separation of powers

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Philosopher passionate about individual freedom

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Writer who published vindication fo the rights of woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Regular social gatherings

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Salon

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A grand ornate style

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Baroque

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Monarchs that embraced the new ideas

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Enlightened despot

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The ruler most admired by philosophers

Leader in Russia from 1762-1796

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Catherine the great

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The reflection of the ideas for natural rights in the Americas

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Declaration of Independence

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Writer of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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When each branch checks the actions of the other two

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Checks and balances

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When power is divided between the state and the national government

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Federal system

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The ten amendments that were later added to the constitution that protected your basic rights

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Bill of rights

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Style of the late 1700s

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Neoclassical

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