Modern World History Vocab 6.1

Question 1

Eng. philosopher; stated that people should rebel against gov. that do not protect their rights

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Locke

Question 2

French political philosopher; He proposed a government divided into three branches

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Montesquieu

Question 3

movement in which thinkers attempted to apply reason & the sci. meth. to all aspects of society

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Enlightenment

Question 4

a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world.

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scientific method

Question 5

change in Euro. thought, in which study of the world was based on observation and questioning

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Scientific Revolution

Question 6

belief held by many that God created the universe and then allowed it to run following nat.laws

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deism

Question 7

earth-centered view of the universe in which the earth was located at the center

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geocentric theory

Question 8

English mathematician; discovered the law of gravity as well as laws on the physics of objects

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Newton

Question 9

Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist; invented the first working telescope

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Galileo

Question 10

the idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun

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heliocentric theory

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