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| mercantilism | economic policy where a country builds up its wealth by acquiring colonies |
| commerical revolution | new money and banking were created, mercantilsm changed |
| Copernicus | developed the theory that the earth revolved around the Sun |
| Kepler | discovered that the planets move in oval shapes |
| Galileo Galilei | used the telescope to show that the earth revolved around the sun |
| William Harvey | discovered the circulation of blood through the body |
| Enlightenment | applying reason to the human world, not just the scientific world |
| Thomas Hobbes | life is nasty, brutish and short-wrote The Leviathan |
| John Locke | people are sovereign, monarchs are not chosen by god |
| Montesquieu | separation of powers |
| Rousseau | government is a social contract between the people and rulers, wrote The Social Contract |
| Voltaire | religious toleration, separation of church and state |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote The Declaration of Independence |
| Causes of French Revolution | Influence of Enlightenment ideas and American Revolution |
| Storming of the Bastille | this event marks the beginning of the French Revolution |
| Reign of Terror | radical phase of French Revolution, people killed by guillotine |
| Louis XVI | monarch who was overthrown in the French Revolution |
| Toussaint L-Overture | freed slave who led independence of Haiti |
| Simon Bolivar | led independence movements in South America |
| Eugene Delacroix | painter during the Age of Reason |
| Miguel Cervantes | wrote the first novel called Don Quixote |
| Age of Reason | a time period when new inventions and innovations in the arts developed |
| Napoleon | ruler of France who was unsuccessful in his attempt to unify all of Europe |
| Napoleonic Code | set of laws which made everyone equal |
| nationalism | sense of pride in your nation |
| balance of power | the idea that one country should not have more power than those around it |
| Congress of Vienna | meeting held after Napoleon's downfall to restore monarchs, create a balance of power, and draw a new map of Europe |
| Great Britain | this country was the first to make slavery illegal |
