Chp 13 SS

1) astronomer and inventor who proved the heliocentric theory

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

2) The job of this branch of government is to make the laws.

• Legislative branch

• Congress

3) a political thinker who believed that governments should

protect people’s rights

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

4) Because classical thinkers often based their conclusions on this, some of their beliefs turned out to be false.

• Common sense

• Experiments

5) What Russian monarch allowed nobles to dominate the serfs?

• Catherine the Great

• Hitler

6) What Austrian’s reforms included improved living conditions for serfs as well as the setting up of schools?

• Maria Theresa

• George Washington

7) During what age did political thinkers try to use reason to

improve the government?

• The Enlightenment

• The Middle Ages

8) The scientist who believed that the solar system was held

together by the force of gravity was....

• Isaac Newton

• Copernicus

9) Ptolemy’s theory that the sun moved around the Earth.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

10) These two differed in their views of how the government was influenced by natural law.

• Thomas Hobbes and John locke

• Isaac Newton