Mr. Combs' History and Social Studies Web
     

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This is where I will post all vocabulary terms, places and people of each unit of study.  While it is helpful to know what each is, it is more important to be able to discuss and understand the ideas and events these historical subjects relay.   

Age of Absolutism

Oligarchy -

Monarchy -

Absolute Monarch -

Louis XIV -

Constitutional Monarchy -

Theocracy -

Devine Right of Kings -

closed Market system -

feudalism -

Protestant Reformation -

mercantilism -

Huguenots -

English Bill of rights -

Habeas Corpus -

Enlightenment

Social Contract -

Natural Laws -

Natural Rights of Man -

Philosophes - 

General will -

Encyclopedia -

Leviathan -

Candide -

Second Treaties of Government -

Laissez Faire economics -

Wealth of Nations -

Censorship -

Salon -

Enlightened Despot -

     Catherine the Great (Russia)

     Frederick the Great (Prussia)

     Joseph II (Hapsburg/Austria)

Baroque -

   People to know:

   Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) -

    Baron de Secondant de Montesquieu -

    John Locke -

   Thomas Hobbes -

    Denis Diderot -

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

   Germaine de Staël -

   Mary Wollenscroft - 

   Adam Smith -

   Wolfang Amadeus Mozart -

Revolutions

Bourgeoisie –

Deficit Spending –

Faction –

Émigré –

Republic –

Suffrage –

Nationalism –

Secular –

Industrialization and Urbanization

Industrialization -

Factory System -

Textile Industry -

Imperialism

Social Darwinism -

Collective Security -

Naval Power -