World History Midterm

Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation

John Locke’s ideas suggest that people were

What was the “Glorious Revolution”?

According to the Ptolemaic system,

Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by

Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king’s forces allowed him to

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494

As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763,

Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal because he

Galileo’s observations seemed to indicate that

Who has been rightly called the father of modern rationalism?

The Treaty of Paris in 1783 granted the Americans control of

____ was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.

Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that

The ideas of ____ can be found in the American Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.

James I of England believed in the divine right of kings, which is

The Edict of Nantes recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, and

The American nation’s first constitution was called the

The publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses

The Peace of Augsburg formally

The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which three artists?

To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was

In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract,

____ was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state.

Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should

____ wrote On The Fabric of the Human Body, which presented an accurate examination of anatomy.

Montesquieu’s most lasting contribution to political thought was his

What is absolutism?

The Constitutional Convention began as