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age of reason
age of reason, english civil war,the enlightenment, scientific revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| divine right | the idea that monarchs received their power from God |
| absolute ruler | all power was centralized (the monarch was the center of power) |
| Louis XIV (the sun king) | Revoked Edict of Nantes Instituted heavy taxes in order to finance the Palace of Versailles (symbol of his power) |
| Peter I (the great) | Forced Russia to westernize instituted heavy taxes to build a new capital in his name (st. petersburg) and created a modern western military |
| versailles palace | symbol of king Louis XIV's power |
| English Civil War | when Parliament fought King Charles Iover his abuse of power |
| Roundheads | Parliament's army during the English Civil War |
| Cavaliers | King Charles I's army during the English Civil War |
| King Charles I | the first monarch that was in power during the English Civil War |
| King Charles II | the monarch that took Cromwell's place during the Restoration of the Monarchy |
| King James II | The monarch that bring back absolute rule during the Restoration of the Monarchy |
| William & Mary | The king and Queen that ruled during the Glorious Revolution |
| Constitutional or limited monarchy | when parliament has greater power than the monarchy |
| Period of the "restoration of the monarchy" | when parliament brought back a monarch hoping to rule together |
| Oliver Cromwell | Leader of the roundheads during the English Civil War |
| The Commonwealth | created by oliver cromwell, and was ruled with a very strict puritan rule |
| The Glorious Revolution | when Mary II & Henry ruled; the English Bill of Rights was established, creating a "constitutional" rule (this is the form of England's government to date) |
| The Enlightenment | a period of time when many thinkers came up with different ideas and understandings of human society, particularly in the areas of law and government (also more religious tolerance) |
| The Scientific Revolution | a large period of progression of scientific knowledge among scientific thinkers (heliocentric theory, laws of gravity, etc.) |
| Thomas Hobbes | wrote Leviathan. believed that humans existed in a primitive and brutal "state of nature". this is why governments are formed, according to him. believed in absolute rule. |
| John Locke | wrote Two Treatises on Government. believed people are capable of ruling themselves. also believed in natural rights (life,liberty,property). thought it was a citizen's duty to revolt against governments that violate their rights. |
| Montesquieu | wrote the Spirit of Laws. believed in separation of powers. |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | wrote The Social Contract. believed government was a contract freely entered into between the rulers and the people. |
| Voltaire | believed in religious toleration and the separation of church and state |
| Leviathan | written by Thomas Hobbes |
| Two Treatises on Government | written by John Locke |
| In the Spirit of Laws | written by Montesquieu |
| The Social Contract | written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Johannes Kepler | Published the idea that planetary motion is in the form of elliptical orbits around the sun |
| Galileo Galilei | used the telescope to confirm heliocentric theory, but was forced to recant when faced with prosecution by the Court of Inquisition |
| Sir Isaac Newton | formulated the laws of gravity, which helped confirm Kepler's theory of planetary motion |
| William Harvey | discovered blood circulates throughout the body in a closed system |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | prominent Baroque composer |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | prominent Classical composer |
| Eugene de la Croix | a painter who contributed to Romanticism |
| Romanticism | an artistic movement focused on the beauty of nature and exposing human emotion |
| Miguel de Cervantes | developed the novel, wrote Don Quixote |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | developed the Heliocentric theory (the earth rotates around the sun, not vice versa) |
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