SSWH13 Sci Revolution & Enlightenment

This person was the first to use a telescope to observe objects in space.

• Galileo

• Aristotle

• Da Vinc

• Gutenberg

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

The Scientific Revolution can best be described as:

• A period when scientists embraced the teachings of the Church
• The time when the Catholic Church empathized most with scientists 
• period when scientists began to question the old teachings of the Church
•  Scientific property invented by astrophysicists to explain the rotation of the Earth

Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:

• Electricity
• Motion and gravity
• Human biology
• Astronomy 

What is a Salon?

• a place to have your hair styled

• A gathering of people primarily to discuss ideas of the philosophes

• place where people gathered to share paintings of animals in tiny hats

• place where people gathered to worship

This philosopher believed there should be separate branches of government

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rosseau

• Voltaire

Define "social contract"

• an entire society of Imperial Stormtroopers

• The document that allows the people to vote for their kings

• an entire society agrees to be governed by its king

• The thought that the government doesn't come from the king's divine right but from the will of the people

This philosopher sought equality between men and women.

• Beccaria

• Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth

• a time when science ruled

• a time when people used reason and logic to explain the world

• a time when technology ruled

Who argued for freedom of speech and religion?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Descartes