Unit 9 Terms

2. the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory.
5. manufacturing systems in which work-in-progress moves from station to station in a sequential fashion.
7. public intellectuals dedicated to solving the real problems of the world.
14. Structure in which work is organized to meet the need for production on a large scale usually with power-driven machinery.
15. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
17. the concentration of human populations into discrete areas.
18. 18th-century inventor and instrument maker; improved steam engine
19. we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue).
20. when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain.

1. Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher; freedom of religion
3. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
4. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
6. an agreement between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers
8. 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
9. a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
10. someone who undertakes a business venture.
11. a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement.
12. the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country
13. an economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, with labor solely paid wages.
16. French lawyer, man of letters, and one of the most influential political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment ; seperation of powers