Unit 9 Vocabulary

2. Determined little thing; The young.
4. made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.
7. formulated laws of motion and gravitation.
12. the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
13. An agreement to give up certain rights and accept central authority in order to protect the other rights
14. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
15. a Scottish inventor whose work played an important part in the development of the steam engine.
16. a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
18. the right that is given to a king or queen by God to rule a country
19. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
20. a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

1. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
3. materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings
5. the economic group between the upper and lower classes, including professional and business workers and their families.
6. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
8. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
9. his work On the Social Contract.
10. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
11. English philosopher and political theorist
17. a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.