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5674083287A Plan For English CommerceA book by Defoe. It discussed how much more money the cottage industry brought in, factory working conditions, and wage differences between genders0
5674489330A Vindication of the Rights of Man/WomanA book by Wollstonecraft that advocated for coeducation, women in business and politics1
5674521117Abbe de SieyesA Huguenot priest that advocated for the 3rd Estates right to rule and condemned special privileges2
5674695748Dutch East Trading CompThey thrived on the spice trade and wanted to capture the Spice trade form Portugal3
5674705013Dutch West Trading CompThey traded with the New World and wants to capture Spanish territories4
5674729663MontaigneHe didn't believe that one culture could be superior to another. He was a skeptic and cultural relativist who contributed to the era of doubt5
5674755280SkepticismSomeone who believes that complete certainty will never exist and there will always be doubt6
5674802998BaconHe believed that knowledge had to be backed up with research. Fed into empiricism.7
5674815449DescartesHe believed that you should break down a question into simpler parts (deductive reasoning).8
5674829302NewtonHe combined math, physics, and astronomy in his 3 laws of motion. He discovered the law of universal gravitation, centripetal force, and acceleration.9
5674856480Law of Universal GravitationDiscovered by Newton and discussed in Principa Mathematica. It stated that objects were attracted to each other depending on mass and distance.10
5674882112EmpiricismInductive reasoning that called for getting evidence through observation and experimentation. It was made up by Bacon.11
5674906945Scientific MethodA combo of inductive and deductive reasoning.12
5674914917GalenA greek physician who said the body had 4 humors and an imbalance of them would result in sickness.13
5674928520ParacelusHe was one of the first to use drugs to address chemical vs humoral imbalances14
5674941688VesaliusHe drew detailed drawings of human anatomy by dissecting human bodies.15
5674955474HarveyHe discovered the circulation of blood through veins/ arteries. He explained the function of the heart's muscles and valves and compared the heart to a pump.16
5675005157AristotleA greek philosopher who said the earth was the center of the universe which reinforced religious thought17
5675022168PtolemyA greek philosopher who believed the planets moved in epicycles which was also accepted by Christians18
5675039368CopernicusA Renaissance philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the universe despite religious persecution19
5675058641Copernicus HypothesisThe idea that the sun was the center of the universe which disagreed with christians20
5675074462Tycho BraheA believer in the Copernicus Hypothesis who dubbed the Rudolfine Tables and trained Kepler.21
5675088076KeplerHe completed the Rudolfine Tables and united astronomy with math.22
5675104435The New AstronomyKepler wrote this and disproved Aristotle and Ptolemy.23
5675128439Rudolfine TablesIt explained planet motion and was started by Brahe and finished by Kepler24
5675141251GalileoHe created the laws of motion and the law of inertia. He agreed with Copernicus and Kepler but was scared of Christians25
5675161138Experimental MethodIt was repeated control experiments to prove something and was made up by Galileo26
5675170432Law of InertiaA law of motion created by Galileo and sated that and object will remain in motion unless stopped.27
5675232003LockeA philosophe who believed in the tabula rasa and natural rights28
5675258075PhilosopheA group of intellectuals who said they brought knowledge to others and helped bring in the Enlightenment.29
5675287325MontesquieuA philosopher who believed that all power must come from the people and in checks and balances30
5675320188Reading RevolutionIt encouraged others to read and helped the common people be able to read versus just the rich31
5675336780SalonPlaces were men went to discuss their ideas without being punished.32
5675347089VoltaireHe believed in free speech and Dieste33
5675422854RococoA style influenced by elite women and was known for being soft and sentimental34
5675441212Public SphereAn intellectual space that celebrated educated debates and members would be able to talk about relevant issues35
5675453272David HumeHe polarized that idea of white supramacy and that all raced were degenerated versions of white people36
5675474795Immanuel KantHe agreed with Hume and helped justify slavery37
5676415746Enlightened AbsolutismMonarchs ruled with absolute authority and adopted the ideals of rationalism, progress, and tolerance.38
5676433178War of the Austrian SuccessionThe struggle for the crown of Austrai between Maris Theresa and Frederick the Great, Frederick of Prussia got it39
5676448385CameralismThe view that monarchy was the best form of government, that society should serve the monarch, and in return the government would use its resources and authority to do the public good.40
5676472843Catherine the GreatThe enlightened absolute ruler of Russia. She westernized Russia, tried to reform the system, and expanded Russia's territory.41
5676493334PugachevHe sparked the uprising of serfs against Catherine which lead to her not being able to reform the system, exalted nobility, and oppressive serfdom.42
5676548654Revolutionary EmperorThe term given to Joseph II as he drew on Enlightenment ideals and was an advocate for change.43
5676586616Pale of SettlementA settlement created by Catherine which was the place where Jews were required to live.44
5676598985Open Field SystemA system that depleted the soil of nitrogen which lead to poor crops.45
5676646397EnclosureThe movement to fence in farms at the expense of peasants. It marked the rise of market-oriented farms and of wage earners.46
5676664573Crop RotationIt was the rotation of different crops grown so the soil would not be depleated47
5676679627Jethro TullHe was an advocate for better agricultural methods and using horses vs oxen and seed drilling48
5676694102Seed DrillingSowing seed with drilling equipment vs by hand and was created by Tull49
5676770624Selective BreedingBreeding certain livestock to get more capable ones.50
5676804976Daniel DefoeHe believed that the cottage industry brought in more money than agricultural work.51
5676828342Clothier's DelightA song that expressed the bitterness of textile workers towards merchants52
5676841736Guild SystemTrade based organizations that monopolized over their trade. It protected urban artisans.53
5676883658MercantilismThe balance of foreign trade to increase a country's wealth. It made the British Empire the leading maritime power.54
5676901172Navigation ActsThe act monopolized trade with British colonies for British merchants and eliminated foreign competition.55
5676918978Anglo-Dutch Shipping WarsA war between the British and Dutch for control over the shipping and foreign trade. The navigation acts lead to the defeat of the Dutch.56
5676932770War of the Spanish SuccessionWar between Britain and Spain due to their union with France. Louis 14 ended it by signing the Union of Utrecht. Spain gave up it North American holdings and their West African slave trade to Britain.57
5676962063AsientoSpain's West African Slave trade.58
5676978194Atlantic Slave TradeIt supplied the rising demand for labor power and was important to Europe's economy. The forced migration of slaves across the Atlantic.59
5676998622CreoleSpanish people born in the Americas. They brought European culture to their homes.60
5677015303Sainte DomingueThe white pop formed new race laws their which prohibited white people from multiracial relationships and forced others to wear certain things.61
5677111171BourgeoisieThe French upper middle class62
5677126279DesacralizationThe process of being stripped of God's anointance63
5677146439Estates GeneralA body that represented the 3 estates.64
5677156985What is the 3rd Estate?A pamphlet by Sieyes that said the 3rd Estate had the power to rule France.65
5677173955National AssemblyThey promised to write a new constitution and were the first to take steps to revolution. A reform legislative group made up of the 3rd estate and a few nobles/ clergy.66
5677201414Oath of the Tennis CourtThe oath taken by the National Assembly which promised to write a new constitution and make reform movements.67
5677252457The BastilleA royal prison where citizens too weapons and stormed in and appointed a new commander of the city's forces.68
5677267520Great FearFrench peasants were afraid of nobel reprisals and this fear lead to more rebellion. Some nobel abolished old privileges because of this.69
5677291926Declaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenThe declaration issued by the National Assembly that called for equality, a representative government, and individual freedom70
5677310515Constitutional MonarchyThis was the limit of government by law and the shared power of a leader and the government.71
5677318500Declaration of the Rights of WomenA declaration by Olympe de Gouges that demanded equality for women as well72
5677328497Code NoirThe law that gave free colored people the same legal status as white people but this was taken away.73
5677336853AssignatThe new french paper money created after the government seized church property.74
5677347037RobespierreA French political leader. A Jacobin, he was one of the most radical leaders of the French Revolution. He was in charge of the government during the Reign of Terror. After the Thermidorian Reaction, he was executed75
5677355925Edmund BurkeHe believed in the "old french ways". He wanted an unrepresentative parliament and inherited privileges.76
5677404418Mary WollstonecraftAn educated woman who demanded equal writes for women77
5677413907Declaration of PillnitzA declaration issued by Austian and Prussian that stated they would intervene to restore Louis of France back to his throne78
5677424517Jacobin ClubA political club made up of radical bourgeoise. They made up the majority of the Legislative Assembly79
5677441485September MassacresThe massacres of jailed nobles and priests because they were thought to be plotting with foreigners80
5677478883Girondists and The MountainTwo competitive factions within the Jacobin club. The Mountains were lead by Robespierre and advocated for the execution of Louis81
5677478944San-CulottesPoor laborers that sided with the Mountain and helped kick out the Girondists from the National Convention.82
5677496129Committee of Public SafetyA group formed by the National Convention and lead by Robespierre. It was given dictatorship power ignored to deal with threats inside and outside of France.83
5677515640Reign of TerrorThe period of time in which the Committee of Public Safety executed many people. It created Republican patriots84
5677534249DechristianizationA campaign to eliminate Catholicism in France. It was supposed to create Republican patriotism85
5677547686National ConventionA convention made up of the Jacobin club. it executed the king, abolished the monarchy, declared war, created the Committee of Public Safety , and supported the Reign of Terror.86
5678119919Thermidorian ReactionThe reaction to Robespierre's reign of terror sparked by the execution of his collaborators. Rob was executed due to this.87
5678143120DantonHe was a collaborator of Robespierre who was executed.88
5678156741The DirectoryThe new executive branch created by the National Assembly after the Committee of Public Safety. They believed in military expansion but this belief lead to their over through.89
5678179016Napoleonic CodeA code created between Napoleon and the bourgeois. It emphasized male equality and security of property.90
5678220416Bank of FranceThe bank established by Napoleon that catered to the state and allowed all to keep the status and property the gained in the Revolution91
5678232963New Imperial NobilityThe title given by Napoleon to reward officials. It created a system of patronage.92
5678253973Concodort of 1801An agreement between Napoleon and the Catholic church. It gave Napoleon the right to elect church officials and it diminished the power of the church.93
5678268629Family MonarchyA established family system that placed the father at the head of the household.94
5678280375Toussaint L'OuvertureA freed slave who created a constitution asking for equality.95
5678326263RichelieuHe increased the power of a centralized French state. A minister of the French crown who established an administrative system the strengthened the monarchy and tried to destroy the Habsburgs.96
5678402186MazarinHe was a chief minister who continued Richelieu's centralized French state. He increased royal taxes to support the war which lead to the Fronde.97
5678420973FrondeUprisings of the common people encouraged by the nobles due to royal control and taxes which was ended when Louis 14th was named king. The Fronde lead to France wanting a strong monarch.98
5678454030Parliament of ParisFrance's most important court made up of nobles. Its membered encouraged the Fronde99
5678468063Louis XIV (14th)An absolute monarch who ruled his realm through bourgeois councils and revoked the Edict of Nantes.100
5678475875La RochelleAn important Protestant city that Louis XIV supervised the siege of. It marked the fall of Protestantism in France.101
5678502268VersaillesA palace that became the center of European culture. French classicism and a system of patronage was born here.102
5678526385French ClassicismArt and Literature in the style of the Italian Renaissance. It came from Louis XIV Versailles.103
5678550825ColbertA general who applied Mercantilism to France and believed that France should be self sustaining. He created guilds, encouraged immigration, abolished taxes on domestic goods, and wounded the company of the East Indies.104
5678579638Peace of UtrechtThis ended the war of spanish succession which gave the crown to France and Spain's territories to England. It marked the end of French expansion.105
5678597420HohenzollernA family that ruled Prussia.106
5678614211JunkersThe nobels of Prussia/ Brandenburg.107
5678672811RepublicanismA form of government with no monarch and the people ruled through elected representatives.108
5678681434PuritansThey believed that England should cleanse themselves from all Catholic elements.109
5678692259William LaudHe was an archbishop who created a new book of common prayer and imposed it on Scotland. Scotland rebelled.110
5678706249Book of Common PrayerThe book that was imposed on Scotland which lead to their rebellion.111
5678716377Triennial ActParliament passed this act which made the King summon the Parliament triennially and it impeached William Laud. It was accepted by Charles I as he was afraid of Scottish invasion.112
5678736544New Model ArmyThe army that Parliament created inorder to defeat the King's royal army.113
5678747217English Civil WarThe war between the King and the Parliament. Cromwell was the leader of the New Model Army who execute the King and dismissed parliament.114
5678762045ProtectorateWhat Cromwell called the new government in England. It was a military dictatorship that was lead by Cromwell.115
5678772533CromwellHe dismissed Parliament, censored culture, tolerated religion, and created a military dictatorship in England after the English Civil War.116
5678791666Test ActThe act Parliament passed to secure the Anglican church. It stripped non anglicans of many rights but couldn't be enforced.117
5678801619Bill of RightsEngland's constitution that stated that the Parliament would make laws, secure the Triennial Act , and limited the rights of Catholics.118
5678819044The Glorious RevolutionThe revolution that replaced James II with William and Mary peacefully. It established a Constitutional Monarchy in France.119
5679318837BoyarsThe Russian nobility. Their loyalty gave power to muscovite princes.120
5679338401CossacksA group made up of runaway peasants who didn't want to serve the tsar. They eventually allied with Moscow.121
5679353477Stenka RazinA cossack who lead a rebellion against the oppressive rule of the monarch. They killed landlord and officials but were defeated.122
5679380623St. PetersburgPeter's "new western" style capital. He built it with forced labor and heavy taxation ignored to westernize Russia.123
5679399397Great Northern WarThe war between Russian and Sweden. Sweden attracted Russia leading to Russia requiring nobles to serve in the army for life.124
5679438926Adam SmithA philosopher who believed in laissez faire and the invisible hand125
5679478623British East India CompanyA company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism.126
5679478624Cornelius Vermuydenmost famous of Dutch drainage engineers, directed drainage projects in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, reclaimed 40,000 acres127
5679495245Cottage IndustryAn industry in which the production of goods and services is based in homes, as opposed to factories.128
5679498643Defenestration of PragueThe hurling, by Protestants, of Catholic officials from a castle window in Prague, setting off the Thirty Years' War.129
5679507543EncyclopediaA book by Diderot that disagreed with white superiority. The book critiqued european arrogance and racism.130
5679509728Instrument of GovernmentCromwell's constitution that gave all Christians, except Catholics, the right to practice their faith. It put the power in a protectorate and a council of state.131
5679513757Invisible HandEveryone has an economic self intrest but it benefits society. It was a term coined by Smith132
5679519363Madam du ChateletShe believed women's limited contribution to science was the result of unequal education133
5679528021MaratThe creator of the French Revolution newspaper "The People's Friend"134
5679531892Montaigne's Essays, Of CannibalsThese were written by Montaigne and it wrote about oversea travels and cultural relativism135
5679531893Natural RightsNo one can take away the rights a person receives at birth136
5679535612Peace of WestphaliaThis was the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War that recognized the independent authority of over three hundred German principalities137
5679540296Popular SovereigntyThe government receives its power from the people138
5679544138Putting-Out systemMerchants who gave raw materials to cottage materials in return for their processing and payment139
5679544139Restoration MonarchCharles II rose to power after Cromwell and therefore restored the monarchy in England. He was know as140
5679553184Roundheads and CavaliersThese were the two sides of the English civil war. The Roundheads were the Puritan supporters of the Parliament and the Cavaliers were the supporters of Charles I141
5679553185Sans SouciFrederick the Great's of Prussia Versailles palace142
5679556577Serfsmen of women who were the poorest members of society, peasants who worked the lord's land in exchange for protection143
5679560647Social ContractPeople give up some personal freedom to the government and in return receives protection.144
5679560648Tabula RasaMen are born with a clean slate145
5679564640The People's FriendA newspaper that focused on supporting the sans-culottes and radical views.146
5679572741William and MaryThey were the monarch who came after James II during the glorious revolution. They were constitutional monarchs147
5679579204Winter PalaceA Russian palace built by Peter the Great in St Petersburg that was similar to Versailles148
5679613753laissez faireThere should be no government in economy149

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