WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 21 PRACTICE

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Why did female scientists often have to publish their work anonymously?

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Because scholarship was considered the exclusive domain of men.

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According to Rousseau’s concept of the social contract

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a society agrees to be governed by its general will.

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Which two nations set the stage for the Seven Years’ War in Europe in their battle for control of Silesia?

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Austria and Prussia

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The scientific method grew out of the belief that the world is best understood through

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direct observation.

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Explains why planetary bodies stay in orbit around the sun

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universal law of gravitation

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First European to explore the universe with a telescope

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Galileo Galilei

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America’s first constitution

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Articles of Confederation

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Who argued that people are born with a blank mind?

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John Locke

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father of modern rationalism

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René Descartes

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Which idea of Montesquieu has been incorporated into the U.S. Constitution?

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separation of powers