Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

Which sources of knowledge were most central to the Scientific Revolution?

• Tradition and reliance on Church teachings

• Observation and experimentation

• Classical learning and travel

• Divine wisdom and Biblical texts

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke both agreed that a government should be based on the

• Separation of nationalities

• Religious values of the people

• Equal distribution of wealth

• Consent of the governed (people should have a say)

Philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that society could best be improved by

• Relying on faith and divine right

• Borrowing ideas from ancient Greece and Rome

• Applying reason and the laws of nature

• Following royal commands

The heliocentric model, the discovery of gravity, and the work of Robert Boyle are all associated with which revolution?

• Commercial Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Financial Revolution

One way in which Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau are similar is that they were

• supporters of the Counter Reformation

• philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment

• chief ministers during the French Revolution

• leaders of the Italian unification movement

Which statement best describes the effects of the works of Nicholaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, and Rene Descartes?

• The scientific method was used to solve problems.

• Interest in Greek and Roman drama was renewed.

• The acceptance of traditional authority was accepted.

• Funding to education was increased by the English government.

_______ was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.

• Ptolemy

• Johannes Kepler

• John Locke

• Nicolas Copernicus

Beginning in the Enlightenment, how did philosophers view human beings?

• Men are born free and equal, and this fact should be accounted for in government

• Men are born into classes; some are born to rule, and some are born to be ruled

• Men are inferior to God, and have no hope of improving themselves

• Men are incapable of understanding how the universe works

______________ is the belief that god has chosen the king for his position as a result anything he does is ordained by god

• Divine Destiny

• Divine RIght

• mestizo

• mercantilism

“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. . . .Again, there is no liberty if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.”

- Montesquieu

What concept is Montesquieu talking about in the excerpt above?

• Federalism

• Separation of powers

• Unalienable Rights

• Social contract