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- 5. having or representing the earth as the center
- 7. made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method
- 13. provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful
- 14. an informal education for women, where they were able to exchange ideas, receive and give criticism, read their own works and hear the works and ideas of other intellectuals
- 15. a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity
- 18. an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection
- 20. a ruler with absolute power (a despot) who embraces Enlightenment ideals, such as the rights and liberties of individuals, and chooses to use their absolute power to better the lives of average citizens.
- 21. a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
- 22. power is shared between the federal government and the state governments
- 24. having or representing the sun as the center
- 25. the study either of the historical process and its development or of the methods used by historians to understand their material.
- 26. a French lawyer, man of letters, and one of the most influential political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment.
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- 1. a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.
- 2. established educational reform, championing the arts, and extending Russia's borders in the largest territorial gain since Ivan the Terrible
- 3. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
- 4. his role in writing the Declaration of Independence, his foreign service, his two terms as president, and his omnipresent face on the modern nickel
- 6. belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe
- 8. relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail
- 9. his work On the Social Contract
- 10. English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women
- 11. an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule
- 12. his formulation of the three laws of motion—the basic principles of modern physics
- 16. an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century
- 17. versatile and prolific writer
- 19. This amendment guarantees the right of freedom from establishment of religion, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, freedom for people to get together peacefully, and freedom for people to send petitions to their government
- 23. founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism.