Unit III Ch. 16 Vocab Flashcards
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| 63221063 | divine right of kings | the belief that the authority of kings comes directly from God | 0 | |
| 63221064 | creole | a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America | 1 | |
| 63221065 | mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | 2 | |
| 63221066 | Thomas Hobbes | English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679) | 3 | |
| 63221067 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | 4 | |
| 63221068 | social contract | the idea that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will | 5 | |
| 63221069 | Nicholas Copernicus | Polish astronomer that said the sun is the center of the solar system, not the Earth | 6 | |
| 63221173 | Johannes Kepler | German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630) | 7 | |
| 63221174 | Galileo Galilei | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars | 8 | |
| 63221175 | Issac Newton | mathematician, made gravity laws and the laws of motion | 9 |