Unit 9 Vocab

3. a political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country
4. a Scottish engineer, chemist, and inventor who significantly improved the steam engine
5. best known for his political philosophy
7. a meeting of colonial powers
9. a person believing in or practicing religious heresy
10. the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
13. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
17. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
18. an idea in politics consisting of economical equality that wants a world without different social class groups
19. he was the first to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon

1. the founder of British empiricism
2. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses
6. a territory or region where an external group or institution holds power or authority in a foreign territory
8. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
11. a political and economic theory of social organization
12. a building where goods are manufactured
14. He formulated laws of motion and gravitation
15. one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment
16. a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher