Unit 9

1. the process of making an area more urban.
4. best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.
5. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
9. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Roman Catholic Church) and of slavery
12. stradegy that consists in extending power by territorial acquisition or by extending political and economic control outward over other areas.
15. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
16. known for inventing different types of steam engine that helped start the Industrial Revolution, Horsepower
17. political and moral philosopher of the Enlightenment Era, well known for his work On the Social Contract,
18. a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status
20. a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority

2. working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws of motion, and contributing to calculus
3. a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
6. contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method
7. a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence
8. He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers
10. the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects
11. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
13. A person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money
14. a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
19. founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism