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Chapter 6
Scientific Revolution and Enlightment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Geocentric Theory | Earth-centered view of the universe. |
| Scientific Revolution | A new way of thinking about the natural world. |
| Helicopter Theory | The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. |
| Galileo Galilei | He discovered the telescope. |
| Scientific Method | A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses. |
| Isaac Newton | He's a mathematician and physician. |
| Enlightenment | European movement in which tinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society. |
| Social Contract | Agreement by which people created a government. |
| John Locke | Held a different, more positive view of humans nature. |
| Philosophe | The social critics of wanted to discuss politics and ideas. |
| Voltaire | He combats intolerance and he accept people. |
| Montesquieu | He separate the power, not too much power in any one place. |
| Rousseau | He did the individual rights and he consent the government. |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | She advocate the woman rights. |
| Salon | Fancy homes of wealthy women. |
| Baroque | Often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear. |
| Neoclassical | Relating to a simple, elegant style based on ideas and themes from ancient Greece and Rome. |
| Enlightenment despot | Ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subject. |
| Catherine the Great | She reform the legal system. |
| Declaration of Independence | Severed the political connections between the thirteen original American colonies and Great Britain. |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was elected the second Vice President of the United States and the third President of the United States. |
| Check and Balance | Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated |
| Federal System | Federal system government shares power with the states. |
| Bill Of Rights | Protect individual freedoms, based on Enlightenment ideas and speech religion rights of criminals. |
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