Modern World History – Chapter 6 Test Study

This polish astronomer concluded that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

This British physician introduced a vaccine for smallpox

This German scientist made the first thermometer

This Persian king reformed society improving edu, outlawing torture, and granting some religious freedom

This Austrian king reformed society improving edu, freedom of the press, and the end of serfdom

He dissected pigs and other animals to out about human anatomy

The most brilliant of the philosophes, he used satire to attack the clergy, aristocrats, and the government

He thought the British system was the best because it balanced power between the monarch, cabinet, and parliament

He believed in individual freedom

He pioneered the use of the scientific method in chemistry

A brilliant mathematician who concluded that the planets move around the sun in a particular pattern, not a circle

This English scientist who wrote about gravitation

She believed that women should have the same equal right as men do.

He was one of the greatest composers of the enlightenment

He dissected human corpses and published his findings

He believed in three natural rights; life, liberty, and property

This Russian monarch set up a commission to review laws with the intent of reform. Unfortunately, little was accomplished

He wrote the declaration of independence

This Italian Scientist who built his own telescope

This English writer used empiricism

"I think, therefor I am"

He wrote the first encyclopedia

The first 10 amendments

A simple and elegant Style that borrowed from classical Greece and Rome

A style characterized by grand ornate designs

Gathering hosted by socialites hoping to attract the brightest thinkers for enlightened discussion and entertainment

The relationship of ruler and ruled

This allows for two levels of government, state and federal

Our government system has this, built for each branch to have some control over others

This theory says the sun is the center of the universe, planets revolve around it

This was a huge change in our view of thinking. People began carful observations and a willingness to question existing believes in order to reach conclusions.

Earth centered view of our universe proposed by Aristotle and others.

Our first national constitution that spelled out our form of government

This document explains our system of government, It went into effect in 1787.

Spelled out the philosophe of our government for our founding fathers; it lists the ievances coloniss had against the British govnerment, declared war on Britain.

These absolute rulers tried to make reforms based on enlighted thinking

A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought

a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas