Do Now Enlightenment

Held a positive view of human nature.  He said that all people are born free and equal, with three nature rights --life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke 

• Thomas Hobbes

• Francis Bacon 

• Baron de Montesquieu

He proposed the division of powers within the government.  He called it separation of powers.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes 

• Francis Bacon 

• Rene Decartes 

The Heliocentric theory was first proposed by___________.

• Isaac Newton 

• Francis Bacon 

• Nicolaus Copernicus 

• Galileo Galiei  

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

• Poor Judgement

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