World History Review

During the Age of Enlightenment which idea provoked a change in how people perceived the rights of individuals?

• Nature operated according to the laws of God.
• Kings and guess were granted divine rights by God in order to rule fairly over their subjects.
• All people were born equal, possessing natural rights.
• None of these options are correct.

If a government failed to maintain the social contract, Locke would have encouraged citizens to take what actions?

• Ask the government to support people’s natural rights to life, liberty, and property
• Ask the government to make up a new social contract
• support revolutionary action and overthrow the government
• oppose revolutionary action

Because of his view of human nature, Hobbes promoted which Enlightenment idea as a way of keeping order? 

• natural rights
• human reason
• religious tolerance
• social contract

Which statement about the Scientific Revolution in Europe is accurate?

• New ideas supported the geocentric theory of Ptolemy.
• The existence of natural laws was rejected
• The Bible was used to justify new scientific findings.
• Scientists questioned traditional beliefs about the universe

The Scientific Revolution brought about important changes in which of the following area

• new ideas and technologies spread
• science began to replace religion in explaining the laws of nature
• the relationship between the church and society
• all of the above

Bacon, Galileo, & Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on experimentation & ________.

• observation
• guessing
• research
• what your friends say

He used math to prove that the planetary orbits were elliptical.

• Copernicus
• Clovis I
• Kepler
• Pony Boy

He was accused of heresy and put under house arrest for supporting the heliocentric theory.

• Pope Leo X
• Ptolemy
• Galileo
• Newton

The idea that the sun is the center of the universe is the ____________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• solar
• sunny

The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst