The Story of the World: Early Modern Times Chapter 16

Galileo was one of the first scientists to use the _____ which is where a person carefully observes the world and then tries to make a theory that explains his observations.

• scientific method

• scientific poster

• scientific test

Isaac Newton observed an apple falling to the ground. He named this force (a)   .

The ____ was the period when the ideas of Isaac Newton, John Locke, and others became popular in Europe.

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Industrial Age

New methods of farming produced the _____ Revolution.

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• Academic

• Agricultural

Isaac Newton agreed with the ideas of ______.

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Galileo

• Charles I

Newton believed that the universe was ______.

• like a machine that always worked the same way

• a huge, mysterious, magical riddle

• strange and unpredictable

• too difficult to study and explore

Why did John Locke leave England?

• He did not like the new ideas that were being taught in the universities.

• He was afraid he might be arrested or executed for not supporting the new king.

• He wanted to study the new ideas being taught in the Far East.

• all of the above.

In a constitutional monarchy, the king and queen have to obey ____.

• the common people

• laws passed by Parliament

• the noblemen

• laws passed by the church

According to Locke, if a king tried to “destroy, enslave, or empoverish” his people, he should be _____.

• executed

• imprisoned

• enslaved

• removed from the throne

What did the “Acts of Enclosure” do?

• They required farmers to keep their animals in pens.

• They divided the common fields up into smaller private fields.

• They forced farmers to divide their large farms into smaller ones.

• They required farmers to keep their animals in the village common areas.