ENL/SR Vocab

education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• Laissez Faire

• Consent

• Censorship

• Enlightenment

rulers who turned to philosophies for help in making their government work better

• Natural Law

• Philosopher

• Enlightened Despots

• Absolute Monarchy

What is the defintion of Geocentric?

• Model of the universe with Earth at the center

• The Sun is the center of the universe.

• I am not sure

• Giving power to multiple branches of government to limit individual power

What is the definition of Heliocentric?

• Model of the universe with the Sun at the center

• Model of the universe with Earth at the center

• Process of using scientific methods to discover truth about the world.

• I am not sure

The idea that people trade some natural rights to the government in order to be protected. This is the definition of what?

• Social Contract

• I am not sure

• Divine Right

• Natural Rights

The idea that all people have basic human rights. This is the definition of what?

• I am not sure

• Natural Rights

• Tyranny

• Social Contract

During the Scientific Revolution, European scientists focused their work on explaining

• the workings of the natural world

• the presence of the divine in nature

• the effects of society on the individual

• the workings of advanced technologies

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

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system