history 17-18

Scientific Revolution

the transiotion from the mideavil worldview to a largely secure secular, rational, and materialistic perspective that began in the seventeenth century and was popularized in the eighteenth

Enlightenment

an eighteenth century intellectual movement, led by philosophies, that stressed the application of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of life

Philosophe

intellectuals of the eighteenth centrey enlightenment who believed in applying a spirit of rational criticism to all things, including religion politics, and who focused on improving and enjoying this world, rather then the afterlife.

Tabula rasa

a blank mind, (our knowledge, then, is derived form our environment, not r=from heredity; from reason, not from faith)

Natural rights

certain inalienable rights to which all people are entitled, including the right to life, liberty and property.

Separation of powers

a doctrine enunciated by Montesquieu in the eighteenth century that separate executive, legislative, and judicial powers server to limit and control each other

The Social Contract

General Will

Deism

Encyclopedia

Vindication of the Rights of Vindication of the Rights of Women

feminism

The Wealth of Nations

Law of supply and demand

Laissez-faire

Salon

High Culture

Popular Culture

Rococo

Enlightened Despotism

Charter of Nobility

Instruction

Partition of Poland

nobility

serfs

Junkers

Pale of Settlement

Pogrom

Ashkenazi Jews

Sephardic Jews