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This persons most important contribution to develop the scientific method on deduction and reasoning to from general principle to arrive at specific facts.
Rene Descartes
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This historic event was gradual, depended on prior knowledge and involved a few hundred brilliant people working separately
The Scientific Revolution
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Galileo believed that all aspects of nature could decided in terms of these relationships.
Mathematical relationships
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Women of this social class usually achieved the greatest freedom to pursue new sciences
Artisan class
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This person made a famous wager: it is best to believe God exists and stake everything to gain the lost
Blaise Pascal
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This term refers to the social, political, and economic relationships that were prevalent in Europe before the French Revoluton
Ancien Regime/ old regime
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In the 15th century, this European population was the single wealthiest but did not posses considerable political power.
Aristocracy
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French noble were technically responsible for the payment of this "income tax".
Vingtieme
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This was the economic basis of 18th century life
land
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This term refers to the practice of moving away from one's parents to set up one's newly married life .
neolocalism
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This astronomer set forth the fact that the orbits of the planets are elliptical
Johanes Kepler
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This english thinker was known as the father of empiricism
Francis Bacon
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This writer criticized the Royal Society, for replacing scholastic speculation with experimental speculation
Margaret Cavendish
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This English thinker addressed the issue of planetary motion and established a basis for physics
Issac Newton
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In the early 16th century, the standard explanation of the place of the Earth in the heavens combined the work of these two ancient thinkers
Ptolemy and Aristotle
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This regions families usually had 3 or 4 generations living in one household
Eastern Europe
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This economy dominated the life of skilled urban artisans
family economy
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This new world product allowed a more certain food supply in Europe
Potato
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This Russian document resisted increasing monarchical control over traditional aristocratic privileges.
Charter of Nobility
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European industrialization overcame this economy
Economy of scarcity.
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In the 16th century, this was a trade often pursued by elderly or widowed women
midwifery
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This Flemish man was the leading religious painter of the Catholic Reformation
Peter Paul Rubens
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These supernatural pursuits ended because they threatened society with anarchy
the witch hunts
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This English philosopher saw human beings as self-centered creatures
Thomas Hobbes
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This industry pioneered the Industrial Revolution
Textile Industry
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Over the course of the eighteenth century, this rose throughout Europe, contributing to increased demand for consumer goods
disposable income
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As the agricultural and industrial rev. progressed the role and importance of this demographic diminished
women
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This was the largest group in 18th century cities
shop keepers, artisans, and wage earners
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In the 18th century, the Jewish population of Europe was concentrated in these three places
Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine
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