Chapter 21 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. elegant urban drawing rooms.
  2. 4. an alteration proposed or effected by parliamentary or constitutional procedure
  3. 5. method, a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world.
  4. 9. sun moon and other planets revolve around earth.
  5. 11. sovereignty, the right to govern through the consent of the people.
  6. 13. one that follows especially one who takes over a throne, title, estate, or office.
  7. 14. law of gravitation, one of Newton's three laws of motion.
  8. 15. the concept that the state should not impose government regulations.
  9. 17. an 18th century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.
  10. 18. an artistic style that replaced baroque in the 1730's.
  11. 20. reasoning, the doctrine that scientists should proceed from the particular to the general by making systematic observations.
Down
  1. 1. a group of individuals born and living at the same time.
  2. 3. at one's discretion; random
  3. 6. the theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation.
  4. 7. earth and planets revolve around earth.
  5. 8. french for "Philosopher"
  6. 10. contract, the concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general.
  7. 12. a system of thought expounded by Rene Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.
  8. 16. of powers, a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances.
  9. 19. system, a form of government in which power is shared between the national and state governments.