Unit 9 Vocab

2. , a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and known for fictitious Lettres
4. , mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials
7. , English physicist and mathematician who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.
12. , the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
13. , when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
14. , policy of establishing and enforcing the rule of a nation on outside peoples or countries
15. , inventor and instrument maker who created the steam engine
16. , the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory
18. , right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country.
19. , an individual who creates a new business
20. , arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product.

1. , Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
3. , an English philosopher, scientist, and historian best known for “social contract theory”
5. , a social group that consists of well-educated people but are not the richest
6. , French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher
8. , an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science
9. , a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and best known for his work on social contract.
10. , a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
11. , an English philosopher and physician,most famous forThe Second Treatise of Government
17. , a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing