Unit 2 Test

What were both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights designed to do?

• limit the power of the monarch

• provide for religious freedom

• accept the theory of divine right

• give commoners the right to vote

The English philosopher John Locke argued that life, liberty, and property are

• social rights guaranteed by the ruling class.

• economic rights earned in a capitalistic system.

• political rights to be granted as determined by law.

• natural rights that should be protected by government.

The findings of Galileo and Newton were significant because, from their time on, scientific thought was based upon

• traditional ways of thinking.

• the ideas of the classic philosophers.

• observation and experimentation.

• the authority of the Church.

Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler are all directly associated with the

• Industrial Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

• English Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

During the Age of Absolutism (1600’s and 1700’s) European monarchies sought to

• increase human rights for their citizens

• centralize political power in their nation

• develop better relations with Moslem rulers

• encourage the growth of cooperative farms

Many European monarchs of the 1600s maintained that they should have absolute power to rule because they

• needed to defend their nations against threats from the Western Hemisphere

• thought that all people should have the right to a good ruler

• had been given their power to govern from God

• thought that communism was the superior political system

“Kings sit upon God’s throne and rule according to God’s law.”

This statement would most likely have been made by a person who believed in

• oligarchy

• absolutism

• democracy

• glasnost

What British scientist defined gravity?

• Bacon

• Brahe

• Copernicus

• Newton

Who is credited with inventing the scientific method?

• Bacon

• Brahe

• Copernicus

• Galileo

- Supported reforms

- Believed in natural rights and religious toleration

- Viewed themselves as servants of their state

In the 18th century, European monarchs that fit these characteristics were best known as:

• theocratic monarchs

• enlightened despots

• totalitarian dictators

• prime ministers