Across
- 2. a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian.
- 4. was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
- 7. the development of a universal law of gravitation and his laws of motion
- 12. the concentration of human populations into discrete areas.
- 13. people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior.
- 14. when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain
- 15. inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements in steam engine technology drove the Industrial Revolution.
- 16. the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory.
- 18. a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy
- 19. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so
- 20. manufacturing systems in which work-in-progress moves from station to station in a sequential fashion
Down
- 1. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
- 3. a political philosopher who justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens.
- 5. a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
- 6. French lawyer, man of letters, and one of the most influential political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment
- 8. an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.
- 9. Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.
- 10. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
- 11. English philosopher and political theorist
- 17. a new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines