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The Enlightenment
Quizzes over the people that had a major impact during the enlightenment
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History
9th Grade
11/15/2010

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Term
Johann Pachelbel
Definition
Canon in D Major
Term
Johann Sebastian Bach
Definition
Chorale Number 10 Jesu, Joy of
Man’s Desiring
religious works to organ and choirs
Term
George Frideric Handel
Definition
Messiah - Hallelujah - Chorus
Term
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Definition
Eine kleine Nachtmusik in G Major -
Allegro
operas and symphonies
died in poverty at 35

The Marriage of Figaro - Overture
Term
Ludwig van Beethoven
Definition
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp
minor (“Moonlight”), Op. 27/2 I.
Adagio sostenuto
Term
Geocentric view
Definition
Earth immovable
Sun, moon, stars in circles around
Came from Aristotle and Ptolemy
Christians - God put earth in center
Term
Copernicus
Definition
Polish cleric
geocentric theory seemed wrong
movements not with geocentric
heliocentric theory – sun centered
Term
Tycho Brahe
Definition
recorded movements
accurate
dies 1601 – gives measurements
to Johannes Kepler
Term
Johannes Kepler
Definition
planets revolve w/math. laws in ellipse
Term
Galileo Galilei
Definition
1609 builds telescope
moon not smooth, Jupiter has moons,
forced to appear before Inquisition
supported Copernicus
Church angry
Forced to recant
sun dark spots
against Aristotle
Term
Scientific Method
Definition
logical procedure for gathering and
testing ideas
Term
Francis Bacon
Definition
said medieval scholars
too dependant on Aristotle
wanted conclusions from
experiments – called empiricism
Term
Rene Descartes
Definition
developed
analytical geometry – combined
algebra and geometry
not experiments – math and logic
everything doubted until proved by
reason
Term
Isaac Newton
Definition
theory of motion
studied math and physics – Cambridge
all objects affected equally by same
forces
key link was gravitational forces
every object attracts every other object
depends on mass
most important scientific book
universe a clock set in motion by God
explained mathematically
Term
Thomas Hobbes
Definition
believed people w/o gov’t fight against
themselves
Term
social contract
Definition
give up natural state for
organized society = gov’t for order
Term
John Locke
Definition
people have natural rights - life, liberty, & property
gov’t protects these rights
Term
Charles Louis de Secondat
Definition
admired Britain’s limited monarchy
divided gov’t - 3 branches
executive, legislative, judicial
separation best to protect liberty
Term
Philosophes
Definition
group of philosophers
- means “lovers of wisdom”
reason would lead to reform
Term
Voltaire - François-Marie Arouet
Definition
most famous - used wit to expose
abuses
went after corrupt officials and
aristocrats
Term
Denis Diderot
Definition
28 vol. Encyclopedia or Classified
Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, &
Occupations 1751-1772
“to change the general way of
thinking”
attacked divine right and religion
Term
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Definition
raised poor
people in natural state were good -
“Noble Savage”
natural good corrupted by evils of
society - unequal distribution of
property
Term
Persian Letters
Montesquieu
Definition
uses
2 Persian travelers, Usbek and Rica
to mock Fr. Society
Term
Candide
Voltaire
Definition
uses hero
to travel around world for “best of
all worlds”
Term
Frederick the Great
Definition
admired Voltaire
religious toleration
made Prussian gov’t more efficient
Term
Catherine the Great
Definition
wrote to Voltaire and Diderot
made some reforms, critical of
serfdom
Term
Joseph II
Definition
son and successor of Maria Theresa
wore disguises to know problems of
people
Term
Baroque
Definition
Greek or Roman , complex style,
large, colorful, exciting
glorified battles or lives of saints
Term
Rococo
Definition
personal, elegant and charming
tapestries, had flowers, delicate
shells
Term
Rembrandt van Rijn
Definition
gave middle class dignity
Term
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Definition
sailor shipwrecked on tropical island
Term
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Definition
1st true English novel – servant refuses master
Term
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Definition
orphan travels Eng. to win his lady
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