Unit 9 Vocab

3. a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status
4. a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
5. an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each.
7. 18th-century inventor and instrument maker
8. a territory or region where an external group or institution holds power or authority in a foreign territory
10. aid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism
12. a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement
14. French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher
15. a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world,
17. the process by which rural communities grow to form cities, or urban centers, and, by extension, the growth and expansion of those cities
18. a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy
19. a French lawyer, man of letters, and one of the most influential political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment
20. someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

1. the ruling policy of establishing and enforcing the rule of a nation on outside peoples or countries
2. Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa
6. natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
9. Structure in which work is organized to meet the need for production on a large scale usually with power-driven machinery.
11. English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
13. a manufacturing process that allows for finished and almost finished parts to be installed in sequence
16. advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings