Age of Reason & Revolution

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Which one of the following is not a natural right?

• Life

• Money

• Liberty

• Property

_______________ used math and models to prove our solar system is helio-centric and that planetary orbits are elliptical in shape.

• Jean-Jaques Rousseau

• Claudis Ptolemy

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

This person was the first to use a telescope to observe objects in space.

• Galileo

• Aristotle

• Da Vinc

• Gutenberg

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

The Scientific Revolution can best be described as:

• A period when scientists embraced the teachings of the Church
• The time when the Catholic Church empathized most with scientists 
• period when scientists began to question the old teachings of the Church
•  Scientific property invented by astrophysicists to explain the rotation of the Earth

What does Absolute Monarch mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power

• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life

• someone who has to answer to a separate government body

• a ruler who is absolute

The theory justifying a monarch's rule by God's authority is called

• laissez-faire
• totalitarianism
• predestination
• divine right

What was the main reason the American colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?

• They wanted their own Monarch

• Taxation without representation

• They never wanted to be free from Great Britain, Great Britain wanted rid of the colonies

• Great Britain wanted to end slavery