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- 3. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
- 6. was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. He is known for his work On the Social Contract, which questioned the purpose and place of government and its responsibility for its citizens.
- 8. a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state
- 11. a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status
- 14. an English philosopher, scientist, and historian best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan
- 15. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa.
- 16. the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country
- 18. invented calculus in the mid to late 1660s and discovered the laws of gravity
- 19. a French philosopher and author, who is considered one of the founders of sociology as a scholarly discipline. He was among the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment
- 20. an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each
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- 1. he claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory.
- 2. an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.
- 4. known for inventing different types of steam engine that helped start the Industrial Revolution.
- 5. the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
- 7. Structure in which work is organized to meet the need for production on a large scale usually with power-driven machinery.
- 9. manufacturing systems in which work-in-progress moves from station to station in a sequential fashion.
- 10. The theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun is called the heliocentric theory, helio meaning 'sun' and centric meaning 'in the center.'
- 12. when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain.
- 13. an English philosopher and political theorist "natural rights"
- 17. Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. He also discovered that all planets revolved around the Sun.