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Cards In This Set
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Handel
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Wrote the messiah
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Maria therese
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Worked to centralize austrian empire
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Catherine the great
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Ruled russia
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Seven years war
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1756-1763, the first global conflict
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What are characteristic of the scientific method
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Collecting evidence, creating a hypothesis, testing evidence
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What is the significance
of Descarte’s principle of the separation of mind and matter?
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Allowed scientistss to view matter as dead or inert
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What did Margaret
Cavendish and Maria Winkelmann contribute to the Scientific Revolution?
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M.C- wrote works on
scientific method, M.W- discovered a comet
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What was Newton’s
main contribution to Enlightenment thought?
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Natural laws existed,
that institutions could follow these laws to produce the ideal society
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What were
Rousseau’s basic theories as presented in The
Social Contract and Emile?
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The society agrees to
be governed by its general will
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Describe the
characteristics of an enlightened ruler?
Do any of the eighteenth century rulers discussed in 10-3 have the
characteristics of an ideal ruler?
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Allowed religious toleration,
freedom of speech and press, and rights of private property, and yes Frederick
the great
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What country
gained the most territory in the Seven Years War?
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Great Britain
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Why were the
Enlightenment ideals never fully practiced
by eighteenth century rulers?
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They wanted to be
governed by enlightened principles
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How did Great
Britain become the world’s greatest colonial power?
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Defeating the French
in India and North America, and land mass increased
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