Unit 9: Age of Revolutions

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

• Galileo Galilei

• Andreas Vesalius

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Peter the Great's main reason for visiting the Western Europe was to

• Learn about Western customs and modernize Russia

• Gain allies for Russia during their war with the Mongols

• Impress the West with Russia's learning and technology

• Gain a warm-water seaport for Russia

Which Monarch was called the "sun King" and said " I am the Government?"

• James I

• Louis XIV

• Queen Elizabeth

• Peter the Great

One similarity of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment is that both. . .

• Had the support of the Roman Catholic Church

• helped bring an end to feudalism in Europe

• placed great value on traditional beliefs from Greece and Rome

• Emphasized the value of logic and reason

According to John Locke, the purpose of the government is to

• Serve the monarch

• protect natural rights of individuals

• use direct democracy to guarantee the will of the majority

• divide power among three equal branches of government

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed in limited government and argued that government power comes from the "consent of the governed"?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

In the years before the American Revolution, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts in order to

• limit the colonists'' use of tea

• End colonial smuggling and restrict trade

• raise money to pay off debts from the French and Indian War

• Increase colonial shipbuilding industry.

Which revolution was caused by:

1. Financial Crisis

2. Tax burden on 3rd Estate

3. Enlightenment Ideas

4. Inspiration from American Revolution

• Latin American

• American

• French

• Haitian

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed so much in freedoms of speech and religion that he declared, "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it"?

• Voltaire

• Cesare Beccaria

• Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

European monarchs of the 1600s believed that they should have absolute power because they

• had been given their power to govern from God

• Thought that communism was the superior political system

• needed to defend their nations against threats from the Western Hemisphere.

• Thought that all people should have the right to a good ruler