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The age of reasoning
The english civil war, Enlightenment & the scientific revolution
Term | Definition |
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Divine Right | The idea that monarchs received their authority from god and ruled their dominions in "his" name. Therefore to question the authority of the monarchs was to question the authority of god. |
Absolute ruler | Centralized power , the ability of the monarch to create laws and serve as a judge jury and executioner , the ability of the monarch to grant lands on which people lived and tax all that was on those lands , a lack of a constitution or any document which |
Louis XIV (The sun king) | |
Peter I ( The great) | |
Versailles Palace | |
English Civil War | |
Roundheads | |
Cavaliers | |
King Charles I | |
King Charles II | |
King James II | |
William & Mary | |
Constitutional or limited monarchy | |
Period of the "restoration of the monarchy" | |
Oliver Cromwell | |
The commonwealth | |
The glorious revolution | |
The enlightenment | |
The scientific revolution | |
Thomas hobbes | |
John locke | |
Montesquieu | |
Jean-Jacques rousseau | |
Volutaire | |
Leviathan | |
Two treatises on government | |
In the spirit of laws | |
The social contract | |
Nicolaus Copernicus | |
Johannes Kepler | |
Galileo Galilei | |
Sir issac newton | |
William Harvey | |
Johann Sebastian bach | |
Wolfgang Amadeus mozart | |
Eugene de la croix | |
Romanticism | |
Miguel de cervantes |