A | B |
Sir Isaac Newton | Laws of Motion and Gravity |
Heliocentric Theory | Sun is center of the solar system |
Johannes Kepler | Law of Planetary Motion |
Scientific Revolution | Era of reason and systematic observation |
Catholic Church | opposed most scientific discoveries |
Galileo Galilei | Italian who used telescope to study sun and planets |
William Harvey | Circulation of the blood |
Peter the Great | czar who modernized Russia |
Louis XIV | He was "the state" from France |
Age of Absolutism | Era when government power was held by ONE |
Divine Right of Kings | Authority to rule comes from GOD |
Absolute rulers in Europe | Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Peter the Great |
Frederick the Great | King of Prussia |
Under him Versailles became a symbol of royal power | Louis XIV |
English Bill of Rights (1689) | limited power and ended absolutism |
Glorious Revolution | William and Mary take the throne with parliament consent |
Oliver Cromwell | Lord Protector and military dictator in England |
Roundheads | supporters of Parliament in English Civil War |
Thomas Hobbes | Liked absolute monarchy |
John Locke | Life, liberty and property |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | wrote THE SOCIAL CONTRACT |
Baron de Montesquie | Government powers should be separated |
Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote |
Art of the Enlightenment was about... | public events, portraits, landscapes |
Voltaire | French philosopher, right to speech |
Enlightenment | Age of Reason, ideas started the French Revolution |
Johann Sebastian Bach | German musician, baroque style, played organ |
Eugene Delacroix | dramatic Enlightenment painter |
Third Estate | Peasants in France |
Bourgeoisie | middle class in France |
French Independence Day | Celebrates the storming of the Bastille |
Napoleon | Led a coup d'etat against French Directory |
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | Monarchs at the start of the French Revolution |
American and French Revolutions | both started world-wide revolutions |
Simon Bolivar | South American revolutionary leader |
Toussaint L'Ouverture | Hatian slave who led a revolution against France |
Robespierre | Led Jacobins and crushed opposition to his revolution (France) |
result of French Revolution | End of absolutism in France with beheading of Louis XVI |
First Estate | nobles |