Unit 9 Terms

2. a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement.
4. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
5. when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain.
8. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
10. French lawyer, man of letters, and one of the most influential political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment ; seperation of powers
11. a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
12. the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory.
15. public intellectuals dedicated to solving the real problems of the world.
17. an agreement between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers
18. someone who undertakes a business venture.
19. an economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, with labor solely paid wages.
20. manufacturing systems in which work-in-progress moves from station to station in a sequential fashion.

1. we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue).
3. the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country
6. founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism and laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment
7. Structure in which work is organized to meet the need for production on a large scale usually with power-driven machinery.
9. the concentration of human populations into discrete areas.
13. 18th-century inventor and instrument maker; improved steam engine
14. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
16. Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher; freedom of religion