Chapter 16 Flashcards
AP World History Chapter 16
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| 256668530 | Adam Smith | Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790) | 0 | |
| 256668531 | Catholic Reformation | Religious 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 | |
| 256668532 | Copernicus | Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) | 2 | |
| 256668533 | Deism | This 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 altered | 3 | |
| 256668534 | Edict of Nantes | document that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots | 4 | |
| 256668535 | English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I | 5 | |
| 256668536 | Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions | 6 | |
| 256668537 | Francis I | King of France | 7 | |
| 256668538 | Fredrick the Great | ruler of Purussia | 8 | |
| 256668539 | Galileo | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars | 9 | |
| 256668540 | Glorious Revolution | the revolution against James II | 10 | |
| 256668541 | Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason | 11 | |
| 256668542 | Isaac Newton | English mathematician and physicist | 12 | |
| 256668543 | Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women | 13 | |
| 256668544 | J Calvin | believed in predestination of who goes to heaven; set up theocracy in Geneva (part of reformation movement) | 14 | |
| 256668545 | Jesuits | Members of the Society of Jesus | 15 | |
| 256668546 | Johannes Gutenburg | German printer; in 1448 he invented a printing press that used movable type. | 16 | |
| 256668547 | Johannes Kepler | German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630) | 17 | |
| 256668548 | Martin Luther | German theologian who led the Reformation | 18 | |
| 256668549 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 19 |