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This Polish scientist theorized a heliocentric

universe in 1543.

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Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?

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As the author of Principia, he

developed the laws of universal gravitation.

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Who is Isaac Newton?

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This scientist’s development and use

of the telescope validated the

heliocentric theory.

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Who is Galileo Galilei?

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This scientist formulated the three

laws of planetary motion.

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Who is Johannes Kepler?

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This 16th-century Dane built the greatest

observatory in Europe and compiled a vast set of data concerning the

stars and planets.

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Who is Tycho Brahe?

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This deductive thinker wrote: “I think, therefore I

am.”

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Who is Rene Descartes?

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This inductive thinker once said “renounce

notions, and form acquaintance with

things.”

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Who is Francis Bacon?

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This Englishman developed the

chronometer in the 18th century to more

easily determine longitude.

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Who is John Harrison?

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This organization in England became the first of its kind: only the best scientists

were invited to join!

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What is the Royal Society?

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Leeuwenhoek was among the first

scientists to use this instrument to advance biological knowledge.

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What is the microscope?

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Locke spoke of “life, liberty, and

property,” known collectively as

these.

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What are “natural rights?”

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Locke’s theory of education was based on this

“blank” principle.

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What is the tabula rasa?

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This philosophe was a champion of religious toleration and once

said, “Ecrecez l’infame” (“crush the infamous

thing”).

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Who is Voltaire?

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This philosophe wrote about a social

contract and the need to respect the

“general will.”

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Who is Rousseau?

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Diderot is most well known for having completed this in

1765.

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What is the Encyclopedia

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When Frederick II invaded and

occupied Silesia, it started this war.

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What is the War of Austrian Succession?

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This final war of Louis XIV also

resulted in Britain gaining the asiento

from Spain.

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What is the War of Spanish

Succession?

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This Treaty removed France

entirely from North America.

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What is the Treaty of Paris,

1763?

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In this war, Prussia was outnumbered 15

to 1 but survived when Czar Peter III let

Frederick II off the hook.

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What is the Seven Years’

War?

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Although France got little in the way of land, it got sweet revenge on

Britain as a result of this war, mostly fought

in North America.

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What is the American

Revolution?

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This Hohenzollern stated famously that the monarch should be the “first servant

of the state.”

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Who is Frederick the

Great?

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This Enlightened Despot ended

serfdom, although only until he died.

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Who is Joseph II?

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This regent in Austria co-ruled with her son for

several decades. She was not “Enlightened”

but centralized power in Austria.

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Who is Maria Theresa?

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Frederick the Great relied on this social class for running the

military.

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Who are the Junkers

(nobles)?

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In order to gain undisputed control over

the empire, this monarch had to prevail

over the Pugachev Rebellion.

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Who is Catherine the

Great?

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This practice resulted in peasants being displaced from the

common lands.

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What is enclosure?

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This innovation resulted in more

nutrients in soil and the end of the open-

field system.

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What is crop rotation?

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This invention by Jethro Tull meant straight rows and more efficient crop

production.

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What is the seed drill?

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This noble from the Low Countries pioneered drainage techniques which helped reclaim

swamp lands for farming.

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Who is Cornelius

Vermuyden?

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Robert Bakewell was important in developing this

practice.

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What is selective breeding?

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In 1764, James Hargraves invented this revolutionary machine that more efficiently produced

thread.

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What is the spinning jenny?

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In 1733, John Kay invented this

revolutionary machine to speed up the

weaving process.

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What is the flying shuttle?

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In 1769, Richard Arkwright invented

this contraption that improved thread

spinning.

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What is the water frame?

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Older unmarried daughters of families

in the cottage industry came to be referred to

as this.

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What is a spinster?

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In 1779, Samuel Crompton invented this

contraption which combined the best

features of the spinning jenny and the water

frame.

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What is the spinning

mule?

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This was the most valuable commodity of the Atlantic trade.

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What is sugar?

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New crops from the New World helped improve European

diets. The flow of foods across the Atlantic was

known as this.

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What is the Columbian Exchange?

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Beginning in 1651, these mercantilist laws

were passed in England to protect its

Atlantic trade from other empires.

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What are the Navigation

Laws?

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This series of mid-16th-century conflicts in the Atlantic helped reduce

Dutch dominance in international trade.

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What are the Anglo-Dutch

Wars?

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As a result of the Treaty of Utrecht,

Great Britain received this from Spain and thus controlled the flow of labor to the

New World.

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What is the asiento (or,

African slave trade)?

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In his Spirit of Laws, this philosophe wrote on separation of powers

(checks and balances) in government.

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Who is Montesquieu?

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This economist wrote the “bible” of

capitalism, The Wealth of Nations.

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Who is Adam Smith?

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This physiocrat sought laissez faire policies in French

agriculture.

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Who is François Quesnay?

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This German philosopher separated science and morality

into two different branches of knowledge.

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Who is Immanuel Kant?

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This Scottish skeptic claimed that human

ideas were merely the result of sensory experiences, thus dealing a blow to

reason.

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Who is David Hume?

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This region led the Agricultural Revolution

of the early 18th-century.

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What is the Low Countries, or the

Netherlands?

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This rising class of non-aristocratic English landowners came to

dominate the Agricultural Revolution.

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What is the gentry?

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This nobleman introduced crop

rotation techniques in England, after he had learned about them as a foreign diplomat.

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Who is Viscount Charles

Townsend?

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Wealthy British landowners saw to it that these tariff laws

were passed in 1815 in order to drive up the

cost of grain.

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What are the Corn Laws, 1815?

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These oppressive laws prevented poor

peasants from hunting for food on the lands of wealthy

landowners.

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What are game laws?

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This scientist wrote On the Movement of the Heart and Blood

(1628).

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Who is William Harvey?

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This scientist is considered the

“father” of anatomy through his book The

Structure of the Human Body (1543).

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Who is Vesalius?

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This Englishman created the

foundation for immunology with his successful vaccine for

smallpox.

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Who is Edward Jenner?

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This dreaded disease had largely

disappeared from Europe by 1720.

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What is the bubonic plague?

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This English female introduced a Turkish

technique of vaccination for

smallpox, but it was roundly criticized.

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Who is Lady Montagu?

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The Agricultural Revolution directly led

to this demographic trend beginning c.

1750.

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What is the population explosion?

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This ornate 18th-century French art style often focused on the lives of the

upper class.

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What is the Rococo?

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This evangelical religious reformer

founded the Methodist Church in England.

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Who is John Wesley?

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In 1717, this country was the first to

institute compulsory education for

children.

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What is Prussia?

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This “godmother” of The

Encyclopedia was a major player in the salon movement in

France.

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Who is Madame de Geoffrin?

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This nobleman was very influential in advocating the end of torture and

using prisons to rehabilitate people, not

punish them.

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