Unit 4 Vocab

3. English philosopher who wrote Two Treaties on Government. Said the People were Sovereign, and consent to a government to protect natural rights.
6. People exist in a primitive state of nature, the people consent to a government for self protection. That government should be a king.
10. Astronomer who created the Heliocentric Theory
14. French Philosopher, artist, playwright, and novelist. Wrote that life is better with liberty, and that government must allow such freedoms such as freedom of speech.
16. King of Prussia who expanded the military and strength of Prussia, an Enlightened Despot.
17. Centralization of power in the hands of one all powerful monarch. Also known as an absolute monarch,
18. belief that a monarch got his or her power from God
20. Englishman who discovered the circulation of the blood
21. Frenchman, but really from Switzerland, and created the idea of the "Social Contract".
22. King of Russia who centralized power in himself. Created the city of St. Petersburg

1. Frenchman who wrote the Spirit of the Laws, that the government must have a separation of powers.
2. A new form of literature introduced in the Enlightenment period.
4. King of France, also known as the Sun King, who built Versailles and centered power in himself. Also revoked the Edict of Nantes
5. Used the telescope to support heliocentric theory, was placed under house arrest by the church
7. German Composer of Music
8. Created Laws of Gravity, Laws of Motion, and invented Calculus
9. Spanish novelist, wrote Don Quixote
11. German astronomer who developed the idea that planets travel in elliptical orbits
12. Period when a new way of thinking about the natural world based upon observation and questioning of accepted beliefs.
13. French artist who was a leading member of the French Romantic School of Painting
15. Austrian Composer of Music, began at age 5
19. Movement in Europe that applied reason and rationalism to the human world. Had a lot of philosophies about life, language, politics, art, etc.