Chapter 21 Reading Study Guide Below (Due Friday 12/15)
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Study Guide For Monday's Test on Chapters 18 & 19
Add-Ons (Added Wednesday Afternoon)
Chapter 18
- Ch. 18
- Empiricism- What is it? How does it relate to the scientific revolution?
- Deism- What is it?
- William Harvey and Galen- What did Harvey discover? How did this contradict Galen?
- Bacon and Inductive Reasoning
- Descartes and Deductive Reasoning
- Salons- What were they? Why were they significant?
- Voltaire- What was his big issue?
- Diderot- What did he write? Why was it important?
- Social Contract- What was it? What 3 philosophers discussed it?
- Mary Wollstonecraft- What did she promote?
- Skepticism- What is it? How does it reflect the values of the Enlightenment?
- What were Enlightened Despots/Absolutists? Who were our examples?
- Ch. 19
- Role of colonies in mercantilism- Why did countries want colonies? Who benefited?
- Cottage industries/ Putting out system- What did cottage industries produce? Who did the work? What did it provide to the workers?
- Spinster- What is a spinster?
Chapter 18
- Describe Copernicus conception of the universe?
- What was the key to Newton’s understanding of the solar system?
- What two figures are generally given credit for developing the scientific method?
- What was the effect of Fontenelle’s writings?
- What were the causes of the Scientific Revolution?
- What did John Locke say in his Essay on Human Understanding?
- Which powers partitioned Poland?
- What were the enlightened policies of Frederick the Great of Prussia?
- How did Catherine the Great come to rule Russia?
- Where did the Agricultural Revolution first develop?
- Who were the major players in Indian Ocean trade in the 1500’s?
- What were the English Navigation Acts?
- Who was Britain’s rival for trade in India?
- Why did the Dutch need to encourage the Agricultural Revolution?
- What scientific element led to Jethro Tull’s seed drill?
- Who had the largest population in Europe in 1800?
- What were the shortcomings of the putting out system?
- What was the decisive conflict in France and England’s colonial conflicts?
- What did Adam Smith argue for? Why? In What book?
- Who did the British homeland trade with the most?