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Scientific revolution, Enlightenment
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History
10th Grade
09/17/2009

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Term
Difference between mercantilists and physiocrats
Definition
Mercantilists- government regulations on trade.
Physiocrats - business is separate from government.
Term
Adam Smith
Definition
Free market, Laissez faire
Term
Wollstonecraft
Definition
Female critic. Against sexism.
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Rousseau
Definition
Believed that people were good and society is what makes people bad.
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Diderot
Definition
ENCYCLOPEDIA. - helped spread Enlightenment
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Voltaire
Definition
Spoker against corruption, slavery, prejudice, etc.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Imprisoned, forced into exile
Term
Montesque
Definition
Believed in seperation of power and checks and balances.

People can overthrow government if they're doing the job wrong.
Term
John Locke
Definition
Thinks people are good.

Natural rights - life, liberty, property.

Government should protect natural rights. AGAINST MONARCHY.
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Thomas Hobbes
Definition
Thinks people are naturally cruel and evil. Laws help to control them.

Believed in absolute monarchy.
Term
Frederick the Great
Definition
From prussia. Tight control over subjects. Forced peasents to grow crops. religously tolerant.
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Catherine the Great
Definition
Against serfdom.
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Joseph II
Definition
Religiously tolerant. Ended censorship, got freedom of press. Abolished serfdom in Austria
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Maria Theresa
Definition
Modernized austrian government
Term
Mozart
Definition
Composed music since age 16 for operas
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Bach
Definition
Wrote religious pieces for choir and organ
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Defoe
Definition
Wrote the first european novel, Robinson Crusoe
Term
Despots
Definition
Powerful people who spread enlightenment
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How did peasant life vary across Europe?
Definition
The west was more successful and serfdom was mostly abolished.
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