Across
- 3. political strategy, practice, state policy, or advocacy that consists in extending power by territorial acquisition or by extending political and economic control outward over other areas.
- 4. English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings
- 8. He formulated laws of motion and gravitation.
- 11. a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher known for his advocacy of civil liberties, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state.
- 12. the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country.
- 13. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
- 15. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
- 16. the process by which rural communities grow to form cities, or urban centers, and, by extension, the growth and expansion of those cities
- 17. English philosopher and political theorist He is recognized as the founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism.
- 18. 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 made revolutionary telescopic discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter.
- 19. a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Down
- 1. when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
- 2. someone who starts or owns a business
- 5. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
- 6. a manufacturing process in which individual components are assembled in a sequential manner to create a finished product
- 7. 18th-century inventor and instrument maker. Although Watt invented and improved a number of industrial technologies, he is best remembered for his improvements to the steam engine
- 9. the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory
- 10. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
- 14. not rich but not poor, a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status
- 20. political and moral philosopher of the Enlightenment Era. He is well known for his work On the Social Contract, which questioned the purpose and place of government and its responsibility for its citizens.