Unit 9 Vocab
Across
- 2. the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country
- 7. a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- 8. English philosopher who laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism
- 10. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
- 11. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
- 15. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
- 17. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- 18. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
- 19. an arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled.
Down
- 1. the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
- 3. a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
- 4. a Scottish inventor whose work played an important part in the development of the steam engine
- 5. the policy or act of extending a country's power into other territories or gaining control over another country's politics or economics
- 6. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- 9. The pen name of François Arouet, an eighteenth-century French philosopher and author and a major figure of the Enlightenment
- 10. the economic group between the upper and lower classes with an income that is two-thirds to double the U.S. median household income
- 12. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
- 13. English philosopher who is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
- 14. political and moral philosopher of the Enlightenment Era. He is well known for his work On the Social Contract
- 16. a term used in foreign relations to describe a territory or region where an external group or institution holds power or authority in a foreign territory