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256668530Adam SmithScottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)0
256668531Catholic ReformationReligious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.1
256668532CopernicusPolish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)2
256668533DeismThis was a way of thinking that God exists, but does not intervene in daily life, for he already has a plan for the universe that cannot be altered3
256668534Edict of Nantesdocument that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots4
256668535English Civil Warcivil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I5
256668536Enlightenmenta movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions6
256668537Francis IKing of France7
256668538Fredrick the Greatruler of Purussia8
256668539GalileoItalian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars9
256668540Glorious Revolutionthe revolution against James II10
256668541Humanismthe doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason11
256668542Isaac NewtonEnglish mathematician and physicist12
256668543Mary WollstonecraftEnglish writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women13
256668544J Calvinbelieved in predestination of who goes to heaven; set up theocracy in Geneva (part of reformation movement)14
256668545JesuitsMembers of the Society of Jesus15
256668546Johannes GutenburgGerman printer; in 1448 he invented a printing press that used movable type.16
256668547Johannes KeplerGerman astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)17
256668548Martin LutherGerman theologian who led the Reformation18
256668549Mercantilisman economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests19

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