The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution

John Locke argued that all people had the right to ________________. 

• Own slaves
• Choose their religious beliefs
• Pursuit of happiness
• Life, liberty, and property

Copernicus was the first modern scientist to think...

• The universe is geocentric.
• Gravity causes things to fall at the same rate.
• The earth is the center of the universe.
• The sun is the center of the universe.

Galileo was brought before the Church and charged with heresy because...

• He published a book agreeing with the heliocentric theory.
• He criticized the Pope because he wanted a divorce.
• He wanted to marry an English princess.
• He published a book about humanism. 

Isaac Newton studied 3 branches of SCIENCE:

• Legislative, executive, and judicial
• Church, school, factories
• Physics, gravity, motion
• Calculus, physics, and government

Why did the Roman Catholic Church take so long to embrace the heliocentric theory?

• Jesus walked the Earth; therefore Earth must be the most important and at the center.
• Ptolemy was a famous priest who donated a lot of money to the Church.
• Catholic leaders did not want people questioning what was true because it may lead to people questioning the Church. 
• They were angry at Galileo and never wanted to admit he was correct. 

Sir Francis Bacon developed the idea that things could be proven through observation.  What was this called? 

• Scientific Method
• Divine Right of Kings
• Geocentric view of the universe
• Humanism

A period during the 1600s and 1700s when people used reason to guide people's thoughts about society. 

• Enlightenment
• Captialism
• Renaissance
• Reformation

A French philosopher who is considered the father of modern philosophy; "I think therefore I am."

• John Locke
• Rene Descartes
• Adam Smith
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which French Enlightenment thinker promoted the idea of separation of power? 

• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Rene Descartes
• Charles-Louis Montesquieu
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

John Locke's central political value was

• the protection of individual rights.
• equal distribution of wealth.
• designing governments around biblical teachings.
• nullified by the exploration of central Africa.