Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in world history.
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| TERM | WHO OR WHAT & WHEN | WHY IT MATTERS |
| Copernican hypothesis | ||
| law of inertia | ||
| law of universal gravitation | ||
| empiricism | ||
| Enlightenment | ||
| sensationalism | ||
| philosophes | ||
| deism | ||
| general will | ||
| economic liberalism | ||
| enlightened absolutism | ||
| Haskalah | ||
| enclosure | ||
| cottage industry | ||
| public sphere | ||
| salons |