Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

What is the type of government where citizens vote directly for legislation (law making)?

• Oligarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Representative Democracy

What is the type of government where a small group of people maintain power and make all decisions?

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Totalitarianism

• Republic

Capitalism is an economic system involving private ownership of business, competition, and profits.

• True

• False

A representative democracy allows citizens to elect representatives who vote on their behalf.

• True

• False

What is the type of government where one ruler holds all political power without limits?

• Absolutist

• Dictatorship

• Totalitarianism

• All of the Above

Who created the geocentric model of the universe?

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

Who argued against the geocentric theory and supported the heliocentric theory?

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Galileo

• Harvey

Who created the 28 volume Encyclopedia in hopes of spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers?

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Diderot

• Hobbes

Writer, considered the greatest figure of the Enlightenment, who fought for the freedom of speech and religious toleration?

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Francis Bacon

• Andreas Vesalius

Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws and is famous for his contribution of the separation of powers to the foundation of the U.S. government?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Adam Smith

• Baron de Montesquieu