Unit 9

2. writer, philosopher, poet, dramatist, historian and polemicist of the French Enlightenment.
4. a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the development of the scientific method.
7. formulated laws of motion and gravitation.
12. The movement of populations from rural to urban areas
13. when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority
14. extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
15. Scottish inventor whose steam engine contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution
16. the claim by a state to predominant control over foreign territory.
18. the right that is given to a king or queen by God to rule a country.
19. someone who has the desire to administer and succeed in a startup venture in order to make profits
20. an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product

1. the climax of the European competition for territory in Africa, aka 'the Scramble for Africa'.
3. materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty
5. the economic group between the upper and lower classes
6. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
8. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century
9. Inspired leaders of the French Revolution, promoted equality and popular sovereignty
10. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
11. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
17. an industrial facility where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.