Across
- 2. writer, philosopher, poet, dramatist, historian and polemicist of the French Enlightenment
- 4. Was the first to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn.
- 7. The theory of universal gravitation, the nature of white light and calculus.
- 12. the process of making an area more urban.
- 13. when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
- 14. rule by an emperor
- 15. inventing different types of steam engine that helped start the Industrial Revolution.
- 16. a field or area in which an individual or organization has power to affect events and developments.
- 18. the right that is supposedly 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.
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- 1. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
- 3. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.
- 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. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
- 9. Geneva born political and moral philosopher of the Enlightenment Era. He is well known for his work On the Social Contract, which questioned the purpose and place of government and its responsibility for its citizens.
- 10. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point
- 11. wrote that man has three natural rights: life, liberty and property.
- 17. a new way of organizing workforce made necessary by the development of machines which were too large to house in a worker's cottage.