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  1. 4. Relating to a simple, elegant style that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s.
  2. 6. the agreement by which people limit and define their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
  3. 12. Published an essay called- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. Disagreed with Rousseau that women's education should be secondary to men's.
  4. 13. a 18th-century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and scientific method to all aspects of life
  5. 16. arguably the most brilliant and influential of the philosophes. He published more than 70 books of political essays, philosophy, and drama.
  6. 17. another great philosophy who is passionately committed to individual freedom.
  7. 19. in the middle ages, was the belief that the earth was in the center, and planets revolved around the earth.
  8. 20. A statement of the reasons for the American colonies' break with Britain, approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
  9. 22. Congress formally added to the Constitution the ten amendments known as the
  10. 23. an Italian scientist who built on the new theories about Astronomy.
  11. 25. an English scientist who helped to bring together the breakthroughs of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo under a single theory of motion.
  12. 26. an influential French writer who devoted himself to the study of political philosophy.
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  1. 1. the idea that earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
  2. 2. one of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment.
  3. 3. Power was divided between national and state governments.
  4. 5. a belief held by enlightenment thinkers that truth could be discovered through reason or logical thinking.
  5. 7. Declaration of Independence written by a political leader.
  6. 8. a belief held by many scientists and philosophers during the enlightenment that God created the universe and allowed it to run on its own following natural laws.
  7. 9. Relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s.
  8. 10. measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others.
  9. 11. a major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500’s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
  10. 14. One of the 18th century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects.
  11. 15. Ruled from 1762-1796. An admired philosopher.
  12. 18. A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experiments and observations are used to test hypotheses.
  13. 21. an English philosopher who founded British empiricism.
  14. 24. a social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the enlightenment.