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| 290447243 | Scientific Revolution | New way of thinking about the natural world. | 0 | |
| 290447244 | Nicolaus Copernicus | After studying planetary movements for more than 25 years, Coperenicus reasoned that indeed, the stars, the earth, and the other planets revolved around the sun. | 1 | |
| 290447245 | Heliocentric Theory | The thought that sun was the center of the earth. | 2 | |
| 290447246 | Johannes Kepler | Proved that the planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles, as was previously thought. | 3 | |
| 290447247 | Galileo Galilei | Found that a falling object accelerates at a fixed and predictable rate. | 4 | |
| 290447248 | Scientific Method | Logical procedure of gathering and testing ideas. | 5 | |
| 290447249 | Francis Bacon | Created the Experimental Method | 6 | |
| 290447250 | Rene Descartes | Believed that everything should be doubted till proved by reason. | 7 | |
| 290447251 | Isaac Newton | Every object in the universe attracts every other object. | 8 | |
| 299430918 | Luddites | a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811-16)organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment. | 9 | |
| 299430919 | Capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. | 10 | |
| 299430920 | Laissez Faire Economics | One of the guiding principles of capitalism, this doctrine claims that an economic system should be free from government intervention or moderation, and be driven only by the market force. | 11 | |
| 299430921 | Free Enterprise system | Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for a private profit. | 12 | |
| 299430922 | wealth of Nations | is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. | 13 | |
| 299430923 | Malthus and Ricardo | Ricardo-His theory that landlords enriched themselves at the expense of society led him to campaign tirelessly in Parliament and in print for free trade. Malthus-A Classical economist, he startled early 19th century society with his pessimistic prediction that population growth would exceed food supply, condemning mankind to misery. | 14 | |
| 299430924 | Factory Act 1833 | an attempt to establish a normal working day in a single department of industry, textile manufacture | 15 | |
| 299430925 | Reform Act 1832 | is sometimes known as the Great Reform Act, its impact was relatively minor in terms of those who could vote once the act was passed | 16 | |
| 299430926 | Adam Smith | was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy | 17 |
