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