Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

During the Middle Ages, Europeans based their ideas on

• reason

• logical thinking

• what ancient Greeks & Romans thought or on the bible and church

• their own minds

Earth-centered model of the universe.

• eccentric

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• polycentric

The ___________ was a new way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. It marked a shift from the perception that truth is revealed solely through the Bible to the perception that truth could be learned through experience and investigation.

• French Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Cuban Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

Sun-centered model of the universe.

• eccentric

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• polycentric

______ was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Martin Luther

Galileo's discoveries and statements about the heliocentric model got him in trouble with

• the Catholic Church

• Maria Theresa

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

An intellectual movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society

• Industrial Revolution

• The Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• American Revolution

He believed that the natural condition of mankind is a "war of all against all" in which human beings constantly compete with each other.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

Life, liberty, and property are examples of

• the heliocentric model.

• deism.

• laissez-faire.

• natural rights.

Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought was

• separation of powers and checks & balances

• identification of the natural laws that govern human society

• the theory that the government should interfere with religious matters

• the idea that punishments should be brutal to be effective.