Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Enlightenment Terms to Know

Enlightenment
Age of Reason
Logic & Reason vs. Tradition & Superstition
Philosophes
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
-Natural Rights
-Life, Liberty, and Property
-Two Treatesis of Government
Jean Jacques Rosseau
-The Social Contract
Baron de Montesqieu
-Separation of Powers
Voltaire
-Freedom of Speech
Wollenstonecraft
-Women's Equality
Salons
Enlightened Despots
Catherine the Great
Frederick the Great
Joseph II
Declaration of Independence
American Revolution
Bill of Rights

Monday, October 27, 2008

Vocabulary: Renaissance & Scientific Revolution

Renaissance

Guild
Geoffery Chaucer
--The Canterbury Tales
Hanseatic League
Parliament
Magna Carta
The Great Schism
The Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
Renaissance
Medici Family
Secular vs. Religious
Humanism
Machiavelli
--The Prince
Shakespeare


Scientific Revolution

Scientific Method
Gutenberg
-- The Printing Press
Copernicus
Heliocentric Theory
Geocentric Theory
Galileo
Keppler
Bacon
Descartes
Empiricism
Rationalism
Newton

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Vocabulary: Roman Empire & Byzantine Empire

The Roman Empire:

Plebian
Patrician
Republic
Senate
Counsul
Assembly
Gladiator
Slave
Architecture
Domes
Arches
Aqueducts
Coliseum
Forum
Polytheistic
Christianity
Pax Romana
Julius Caesar
Diocletian
Constantine
Roman Catholic
Pope
The Fall of Rome

The Byzantine Empire:

Byzantium
Constantinople
Orthodox Christianity
Justinian Code
Hagia Sofia
Patriach
Prince Vladimir of Kiev, Russia