Enlightenment

Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries?

• Catholic Church

• Roman Gods

• Baptist ministers

• the people

Which of the following is an example of an “unlimited government?”

• Democracy
• Republic
• Absolute Monarch
• Constitutional Monarchy

Many rulers came to power believing that their right to lead came from God. This is an example of:

• Supreme Law

• Divine Right

• Their Opinion

• religious doctrine (teaching)

The US has a written constitution, this characteristic is one of a:

• Limited Government
• Unlimited Government

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

Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 

• English monarchs
• The President of the United States
• The Catholic Church
• Silk Road merchants

The concept of individualism was most central to the political ideas of

• A) Thomas Hobbes 
• B) Immanuel Kant 
• C) John Locke 
• D) Montesquieu 

John Locke's central political value was

• A) the protection of individual rights
• B) designing governments around biblical teachings
• C) ensuring an equal distribution of wealth
• D) the empowerment of the majority of people

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

• A. government
• B. economics
• C. politics
• D. reason

American's used _________________'s idea of separation of powers to write the US Constitution. 

• A. Montesquieu
• B. Hobbes
• C. Rousseau
• D. Voltaire