Unit 9 Important Vocabulary

3. The political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty
4. James Watt was a Scottish engineer, chemist, and inventor
5. Social Contract Theory
7. Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 Meeting at which the major European powers
9. Someone who holds beliefs or opinions that deviate from the established doctrines of a religion, especially in the context of Christianity.
10. The process of making an area more urban.
13. There are seven steps to the scientific method: Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Data Analysis, Conclusion, and Communication.
17. The Polish astronomer, Nicholas Copernicus (∼1540), proposed the heliocentric theory.
18. A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
19. Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and philosopher

1. The Second Treatise of Government
2. A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
6. A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
8. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
11. Socialism is an economic system in which industries are owned by workers rather than by private businesses.
12. Factories is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery
14. English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author.
15. French political philosopher Montesquieu
16. Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian.