Unit 6: Absolutism and Revolutions Review

Associated with theory of gravity

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galilei

• Trace Adkins

His belief that planets revolved around the sun went against the beliefs of the Catholic Church

• Copernicus

• Voltaire

• Drake

• Kepler

Wrote social satire (humor) and promoted civil rights and religious freedom

• John Locke

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

The American, French and Latin American revolutions all stemmed from ideas of the Enlightenment.

Which answer below describes the ideas these revolutions adhered to?

• absolute government, accepting church explanations over discoveries in the Scientific revolution

• absolute government, social contract, natural rights, and self-determination

• limited government, natural rights, self-determination, and social contract

• limited government, natural rights and accepting church explanations over the discoveries of the Scientific revolution

Author of Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Locke

Commoners of France

• Royal Family

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

Sci. Revolution began with Copernius and culminated with discoveries of

• Newton

• Kepler

• Galilei

• Locke

Make policies without considered the will of the people

• monarch

• absolute monarch

• democracy

• socialism

Why were Peter the Great of Russia, King Louis XIV of France, and Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire considered absolute rulers?

• Each relinquished some degree of power to their parliaments.

• Each determined government policies without the consent of their people.

• Each expanded the feudal system and increased the power of barons and lords

• Each sought to break away from established religions and separate church and state.

United Russia by eliminating influence of Western Europe

• Catherine the Great

• Peter the Great

• Louis XIV

• King George