Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

During The Enlightenment, people developed new ideas about ...

• the level of control they should have over their government

• the level of control the Sun exerts on Earth's orbit

• how their food crops should be grown

• how their houses should be arranged

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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According to Enlightenment thinker John Locke, why are governments created?

• God gives monarchs a divine right to rule over their people

• People are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to create order

• People set up governments to protect their lives and property

• Civil government must be established to offset the power of the church

People give up some of their freedom in exchange for protection of their rights in the ...

• Scientific Revolution

• Age of Reason

• State of Nature

• Social Contract

Under the idea of the "consent of the governed," what happens if government fails to protect the peoples' rights?

• Nothing, people must obey the government

• The people would have a right to revolt

• The people would be returned to a state of nature

• People would be forced to enter into a social contract

Select the 3 Philosophers who's ideas CLEARLY are present in our system of Gov't today.....

• Locke

• Newton

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

_____________ =A new way of thinking about the natural world

• Scientific Revolution

• Absolutism

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

_________________ = sun at the center of the solar system

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Meteorology

• Astrophysics

Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued  

• That heaven did not exist
• That Earth revolved around the sun
• Against the law of gravity
• That the sun revolved around the Earth

What did Kepler add to Copernicus’ heliocentric theory?  

• That Jupiter had four moons
• That the planets revolved around the earth 
• That the sun was the biggest star
• That the planets move in eliptical (oval shaped) orbits around the sun