Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Review

Isaac Newton explained the ______

• Law of gravity

• anatomy of the human body

• order of the universe

• function of blood vessels

The heliocentric, or sub-centered, theory was proposed by

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicholaus Copernicus

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

How was Thomas Hobbes and Catherine the Great similar?

• Both were influenced by John Locke

• Both were affected by the horrors of the English Civil War

• Both were influenced by Voltaire and Baron de Montesquieu

• Both believed that a monarch should have absolute authority

What was Montesquieu's influence on the U.S. Constitution?

• public elections

• branches of government

• the bill of rights

• representatives

Which of the following did the Enlightenment promote?

• a belief in progress

• a more secular outlook

• faith in science

• all of the above

How did the Scientific Revolution influence the American Revolution?

• Questioning assumptions led to challenging ideas about government

• Scientific discoveries influenced British foreign policies

• The heliocentric theory caused unrest among the colonists

• The salons influenced the French and Indian War

The heliocentric theory challenged the

• political scientists

• observed patterns

• geocentric theory

• mathematical theories

Between 1550 and 1789, Enlightenment ideas swept

• only through France and colonial America

• only through European society

• through European society and colonial America

• throughout the world

Salons helped to spread

• The geocentric theory

• only the ideas of the philosophes

• only the ideas of political scientists

• Enlightenment thinking

Which of the following was influenced by Enlightenment Ideas?

• literate middle class

• thinkers and artists

• American colonists

• all of the above