Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Honors

Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued  

• That heaven did not exist
• That Earth revolved around the sun
• Against the law of gravity
• That the sun revolved around the Earth

The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst

John Locke argued that all people had the right to ________________. 

• Own slaves
• Choose their religious beliefs
• Pursuit of happiness
• Life, liberty, and property

What made the Scientific revolution different?

• it overturned centuries of authority

• it went along with church doctrine

• it made people aware that they were all the same

• a lot of people where killed

A period during the 1600s and 1700s when people used reason to guide people's thoughts about society. 

• Enlightenment
• Captialism
• Renaissance
• Reformation

Which of the Enlightenment philosophers believed the three branches of government should check the powers of one another?

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Locke

Locke believed that a government's power came from its ___________________.

• A. army
• B. power
• C. people
• D. science

You are born with _________________ that can't be taken away; life, liberty, property

• A. philosophe
• B. natural rights
• C. separation of power
• D. checks and balances

Who created the heliocentric theory?

• Copernicus
• Galileo 
• Ptolemy
• Kepler

Who created the geocentric theory?

• Galileo's Cat
• Ptolemy 
• Copernicus
• Galileo