Enlightenment and Revolution Vocabulary

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  1. 4. The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
  2. 7. One of the 18th century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects.
  3. 10. Was a new way of thinking about the natural world.
  4. 14. An 18th-century European movement to apply the principals of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society.
  5. 16. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states.
  6. 17. A political leader who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
  7. 20. Great English scientist who helped to create a single theory of motion.
  8. 22. A group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment.
  9. 23. Argued that women, like men, need education to become virtuous and useful. She also urged women to enter the male-dominated fields of medicine and politics.
  10. 24. An Italian Scientist, built on new theories about astronomy.
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  1. 1. Relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s.
  2. 2. Was another influential French writer. He devoted himself to the study of political liberty and believed that Britain was the best-governed and most politically balanced country of his own day. He also called the division of power among different branches separation of powers.
  3. 3. A statement of the reasons for the American colonies' break with Britain, approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
  4. 5. The ruler most admired by philosophes. SHe ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796. She ruled with absolute authority, but also sought to reform Russia.
  5. 6. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizen's basic rights and freedoms.
  6. 8. Was probably the most brilliant and influential philosophies. He never stopped fighting for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.
  7. 9. A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observations are used to test hypothesis.
  8. 11. Relating to a simple, elegant style (based on ideas and themes from ancient Greece and Rome) that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s.
  9. 12. Measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others.
  10. 13. A social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment.
  11. 15. The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
  12. 18. was committed to the idea of individual freedom.
  13. 19. A philosopher who believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves. He wanted them to govern their own affairs and to look after the welfare of society.
  14. 21. The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.