Unit 4 review (1648-1815) duel

Denis Diderot

Salon

Urbanization Thanks to new technologies, fewer people were required for farming, leading many to move to the cities.

Argued that natural rights were given by god, not a government, so a government couldn’t take them away. Therefore power originates with the people

Middle and upper classes had more income, rise in demand for goods increased. People began wanting larger homes and more privacy and new venues for leisure

Despite him being a devote catholic, the pope ruled him a heretic and placed him under house arrest. But his books were published after his death

Charter of towns 1792 Catherine the great extended civl liberties to Russian Jews

Reading Revolution The transition in Europe from a society where literacy consisted of patriarchal and communal reading of religious texts to a society where literacy was commonplace and reading material was broad and diverse. Books also became less religious. So religious censorship increased

Every body in the galaxy circled around the earth, including the sun. This was the Catholic Churches view and presumed model of the universe in midevil europe

Attacked mercantilist economics. Promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics.

Thomas Hobbes There is no morality in the state of nature. You need government to order the chaos of nature

Atheism Diderot defined it as someone who knows about god, but actively rejects his existence

Paracelsus

Francis Bacon

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Deductive reasoning Using general principles to determine specific consitions

Philosophes French thinkers

Social Contract

Nicolaus Copernicus Challenged the geocentric model of the universe through mathematics and put forward the heliocentric model, where everything orbits the sun.

Built a telescope and observed that other planets and moons, existed, and weren’t just balls of light

William Harvey Further overturned Galen’s theory by proving how the circulatory system works

Contagious Diseases Act

Scientific method During the scientific Revolution, the scientific method was invented, which emphasizes observations and experimentation

Population increases in the 1700s Rising birth rates, improving medical technology, vaccines, and bubonic plague went away

Enlightened Absolutism

Johannes Kepler Affirmed Copernicus’ findings and through complex math of his own, found that plants orbit in ellipses, not perfect circles

Enlightened absolutists monarchs Frederick the great of Prussia: tried to help the people. Increased freedoms of press and speech to weaken the nobility and strengthen his power.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Overall, religion was increasingly viewed as a matter of private, rather than public concern. Structures of society grew increasingly secular.

Coffee Houses

Catherine the great extended civl liberties to Russian Jews

Inductive reasoning Using specific observations to create general principles

Copernicus and keplers books ended up on the index of prohibited books These new ideas from Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo are challenging established beliefs of the Catholic Church during the catholic counter reformation. The geocentric model fit nicely with scripture so the church stuck with it.

Diderot defined it as someone who knows about god, but actively rejects his existence

Tenaments a cheap apartment building often crammed with people created in response to the influx of people moving into cities

Galen Ancient Greek doctor who advanced the humoral theory of the body

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Attacked mercantilist economics. Promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics.

Thomas Hobbes

The body is made up of 4 substances: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and flem? Imbalance of these 4 lead to disease. This is where blood letting came from

Natural rights The idea that human beings, just by virtue of being human, possess rights like life liberty and property

Social Contract

Mary Wollstonecraft English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women

Nicolaus Copernicus Challenged the geocentric model of the universe through mathematics and put forward the heliocentric model, where everything orbits the sun.

Enlightenment thinkers applied new methods of reasoning to politics, and human institutions

Using general principles to determine specific consitions

A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) Argued that women and men were equal, and anything women seemed inferior at, it was only because they had been denied education and opportunities by men

In the later 1700s, the nature and subject of art shifted from state and religious themes to themes that appealed to bourgeoisie society

Paracelsus Rejected the humoral theory and claimed that chemical imbalances caused disease, meaning chemical remedies could be used to cure people.

Consumer Revolution

Johannes Kepler

Popes response to galieleo

During the scientific Revolution, the scientific method was invented, which emphasizes observations and experimentation

Jean-Jacques Rousseau A French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy. Similar ideas to John Locke. Idea of the social contract

Argued that natural rights were given by god, not a government, so a government couldn’t take them away. Therefore power originates with the people

Enlightenment views of religion Overall, religion was increasingly viewed as a matter of private, rather than public concern. Structures of society grew increasingly secular.

William Harvey Further overturned Galen’s theory by proving how the circulatory system works

Contagious Diseases Act

Thanks to new technologies, fewer people were required for farming, leading many to move to the cities.

Deism Voltaire argued that there was a god, but god didn’t intervene in human affairs.

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