Renaissance / Scientific Revolution
Online Definitions


 

Renaissance

Enlightenment

Philosophy

Democracy

Humanism

Absolutism

social contract

Scientific Revolution

Scientific method

Rationalism

Natural law

aristocracy

oligarchy

Reformation

Indulgences

Diet of Worms

Sect

Predestination

Salvation

Dissenter

Technology

Navigable

Mercantilism

Entrepreneur

Capitalism

Agriculture

Open-field

Crop rotation

Fallow

Enclosure (Open Field Enclosure)

Seed drill

Tenant farmer

Textile

Cottage industry

Spinning wheel

Spinning jenny

Water frame

Cotton gin

Steam engine

Urbanization

Cholera

Elite

Liberalism

Laissez-faire

Utilitarianism

Socialism

Means of production

Guilds

Trade union

Strike

Utopian socialism

Utopian

Luddite

Sabotage

Steam powered

Macadam

Dynamo

Telegraph

Telephone

Radio

Electric motor

Internal combustion engine

Steel

Bessemer Process

Corporation

Financier

Monopoly

Social Darwinism

Communism

Proletariat

Romanticism  

Realism

Impressionism

Abolition

Child labor laws

Br. Factory Act of 1819

Br. Reform Bill of 1832

Chartist Movement

Irish Potato Famine

Suffrage

Settlement houses