Unit 9 Important Vocabulary

2. French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian.
4. Made significant contributions to science, astronomy, physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy
7. key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed, discovered Gravity
12. The process of making an area more urban.
13. A group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
14. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
15. Scottish Engineer, chemist, and inventor who significantly improved the steam engine, impacting the Industrial Revolution
16. A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority
18. A political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy
19. A person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money
20. A production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence.

1. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
3. A founder of modern political philosophy
5. Those with an income that is two-thirds to double the median household income
6. Introduced the idea of separation of powers.
8. An empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th century
9. Swiss philosopher, writer, and composer who lived and worked in France during the Enlightenment.
10. A cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point
11. The Second Treatise of Government
17. A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.