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| 258122526 | What is an absolute monarchy? | A monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution | 0 | |
| 258122527 | Catholic Reformation | Restatement of traditional Catholic beliefs in response to Protestant Reformation | 1 | |
| 258122528 | Edict of Nantes | Grant of tolerance to protestants in France in 1598; granted only after the lengthy civil war between Catholic and Protestant fractions | 2 | |
| 258122529 | English Civil War | was a conflict from 1640 t0 1660 that featured religious disputes mixed with constitutional issues concerning the powers of the monarchy;ended with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 following the execution of the previous king | 3 | |
| 258122530 | Enlightenment | Intellectual movement centered in France during the 18th century;featured scientific,advance application of scientific methods to study human society | 4 | |
| 258122531 | Humanism | focus on humankind as center of intellectual and artistic endeavor;method of study that emphasized the superiority of classical forms over medieval styles | 5 | |
| 258122532 | Jesuits | A new religious order founded during the Catholic Reformation;active in politics,education,and missionary work,sponsored missins to South America,North America,and Asia | 6 | |
| 258122533 | John Harvey | An English physician (17th century) who demonstrated circular movement of blood in animals,function of heart as pump | 7 | |
| 258122534 | Martin Luther | German Monk,initiated Protestant Reformation in 1517 by nailing 95 theses to door of Whittenberg castle,emphasized primacy of faith over works stressed in Catholic church.accepted state control of church | 8 | |
| 258122535 | Mary Wollstonecraft | Enlightenment feminist thinker in England,argued that new political tights should extend to women | 9 | |
| 258122536 | Mercantilism | economic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of import from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues,popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe | 10 | |
| 258122537 | Protestantism | General wave of religious dissent against Catholic church ,began with Marin Luther's attack on Catholic beliefs in 1517 | 11 | |
| 258122538 | Rene Descartes | established importance of skeptical review of all received wisdom (17th century) argued that human reason could then develop laws that would explain the fundamental workings of nature | 12 | |
| 258122539 | Scientific Revolution | culminated in the 17th century;period of empirical advances associated with the development of wider theoretical generalizations;resulted in change in traditional beliefs of Middle Ages | 13 | |
| 258122540 | Thirty Years War | war within the Holy Roman Empire between German protestants and their allies (Sweden,Denmark,France) and the emperor and his ally,Spain,ended in 1648 after great destruction with Treaty of Westphalia | 14 | |
| 258122541 | Treaty of Westphalia | Ended Thirty Years' War in 1648;granted right to individual rulers within the Holy Roman Empire to choose their own religion-either Protestant or Catholic | 15 | |
| 258122542 | Copernicus | Polish monk and astronomer (16th century);he disproved the Hellenistic belief that the earth was at the center of the universe | 16 | |
| 258122543 | Galileo | Published Copernicus's findings (17th century);added his own discoveries concerning laws of gravity and planetary motion;condemned by the Catholic church for his work | 17 | |
| 258122544 | Isaac Newton | English scientist during the 17th century established principles of motion;defined forces of gravity | 18 | |
| 258122545 | Louis XIV | French monarch of the late 17th century who personified absolute monarchy | 19 |
