AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: THE BEGINNING OF MODERN EUROPE

TOPICS AND TERMS

OVERVIEW
- the agricultural revolution
- open field system
- enclosure movement
- the Seven Years’ War (French & Indian War)
- the American Revolution
- Science
- Aristotle, Ptolemy
- individualism and the church
- Luther
- Copernicus
- Galileo
- Newton
- skepticism and rationalism
- the French Revolution
- The Expansion of Europe
- the Columbian Exchange
- mercantilism: relating to trade or commerce
- Adam Smith
- The Enlightenment’s Roots in the Development of Science
- the philosophers of modern science
- Francis Bacon
- Rene Descartes
- cogito ergo sum
- the revolutionary thinkers of science
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- geocentric vs heliocentric universe
- Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
- Johann Kepler
- Galileo Galilei
- trial of Galileo
- Isaac Newton
- natural laws of motion
- deism
- rationalism
- scientific revolution
- learned societies
- salons
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- end of the age of religion
- the Enlightenment
- the philosophes
- Voltaire
- #“ecrasez l’infame” Crush the infamous thing!
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- the noble savage
- state of nature
- The Social Contract
- the general will
- treatise #“Emile”
- Baron de Montesquieu
- Spirit of the Laws
- checks and balances
- Denis Diderot
- Encyclopedia
- Francois Quesnay
- physiocrats
- laissez-faire
- Adam Smith
- Wealth of Nations
- supply and demand
- John Locke
- Two Treatises on Civil Government
- consent of the governed
- social contract
- right of revolution
- Enlightened Despotism
- Russia
- Duchy of Muscovy
- Ivan the Great
- the fall of Constantinople
- the Tarters
- Basil III
- Ivan the Terrible
- the Boyars
- the Duma
- Peter the Great
- Westernization of Russia
- St. Petersburg
- window to the West
- Catherine the Great
- Czar Peter III
- Pugachev’s Rebellion
- Prussia
- Hohenzollerns
- Frederick William
- Frederick I
- Frederick William I
- Frederick William II (Frederick the Great)
- the Junkers

- Hapsburg state of Austria
- Maria Theresa
- Joseph II