The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution began in Europe during the

• 1500s

• 1400s

• 1300s

• 1600s

• 1100s

What was the first area of study affected by the Scientific Revolution?

• Astronomy

• Economics

• Humans

• Government

• Biology

Name the person's findings that were considered to be the beginnings of modern astronomy.

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Descartes

A government ruled by a King or Queen is called a

• monarchy

• democracy

• dictatorship

Separation of powers means that government power is divided among different groups, such as the executive, judicial, and

• legislative branches

• military branches

• royal branches

One English writer who was a strong supporter of women's rights was

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Denis Diderot

• Francois-Marie Arouet

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

France's Sun King, or King Louis XIV, was a(n)

• absolute monarch.

• supporter of the Enlightenment principles of natural law and rationalism

• supporter of the idea of separation of powers

• example of a monarch who agreed to share power.

• constitutional monarch

____________ was one of Russia's most powerful czars.

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Chadd the Great

• Maria Theresa

Which early scientist theorized that the planets moved in elliptical orbits, or oval-like paths, around the sun?

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Francis Bacon

"I think therefore I am" was written by

• Rene Descartes

• Andreas Vesalius

• Francis Bacon

• Robert Boyle