Absolutism, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

Enlightened thinkers and scientists of the 17th and 18th centuries based their beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege

• money and fame

• Church and Absolutism

• reason and logic

How did the Reformation spark both the Enlightenment and scientific revolution

• By legitimizing the supremacy of the Catholic Church

• By arguing and challenging tradition and authority

• By eliminating Christianity in Europe

• By arguing for a return to feudalism

A form of government where one person holds unlimited and complete control of the state without any restrictions on power is

• Direct democracy

• Absolute monarchy

• Representative democracy

• Constitutional monarchy

Many European absolute monarchs justified their right to rule based on

• Supreme Law

• Divine Right

• Papal authority (Pope's permission)

• Their popularity

The English political philosopher who argued all humans are born with natural rights including life, liberty, and property was

• Jean Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• John Locke

Thomas Hobbes supported which form of government?

• A republic

• A direct democracy

• An absolute monarchy

• He argued against any form of government. (Anarchy)

Why did Hobbes believe in Absolute Monarchies?

• He felt Absolute Monarchs would protect the people from foreign invaders.

• He believed people were wicked and needed to be controlled by powerful leaders.

• He thought democracy did not give citizens enough say in the day to day running of countries.

• Hobbes thought people would lose freedoms in a democracy.

He stated that the role of gov't was to protect the natural rights of citizens?

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jaques Rousseau

• Voltaire

Theory that the planets and stars revolve around the earth.

• The heliocentric theory
• The geocentric theory
• The social contract
• The scientific method

Theory that the planets and stars revolve around the sun.

• The heliocentric theory
• The geocentric theory
• The social contract
• The scientific method