Vocab

2. french writer
4. first to use a telescope
7. came up with the law of gravity
12. the concentration of human populations into discrete areas
13. a group of people finally agreeing on rules
14. the policy or act of extending a country's power into other territories or gaining control over another country's politics or economics
15. 18th-century inventor and instrument maker.
16. the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory.
18. The right given to rule
19. someone who starts or owns a business.
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. advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings
5. a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not very rich
6. advocated for separation of powers
8. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
9. very influential thinker during enlightenment
10. a theory that the sun lays in the middle of the solar system
11. an english philosopher
17. a building meant for building large amounts of things