World History Unit 6 Vocab SFHS

What were the major causes of the Enlightenment?

• The Printing Press

• Protestant Reformation

• The Scientific Revolution

• All the Above

What were the major contributions from individuals associated with the Scientific Revolution?

• Isaac Newton proposed the Law of Gravity

• Galileo Galilei argued that the sun was the center of the solar system, challenging the church.

• Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon laid the groundwork fro the scientific method.

• All the Above

How did the theories and methods of the Scientific Revolution challenge long standing ancient and medieval thoughts/perceptions?

• The Scientific Revolution increased the value of real world observation based on the scientific method. This influenced more secular thought based on experience rather tradition, superstition, or religion.

• The Scientific Revolution did not challenge medieval thought.

• Most of the world converted to athiest and the complete rejection of religion rapidly ensued into the 19th Century.

• None of these

Comparatively speaking, what were the causes and effects of the development of constitutional monarchies in England versus absolutism that took hold in France, Spain, and Russia.

• England's version of constitutionalism caused other nations to become more protective of their monarchies. This ultimately led to revolution.

• The American Revolution, which created a democratic republic, that was inspired by the English parliament ultimately inspired the French Revolution.

• Monarchs in France, Spain, and Russia feared that a conversion to constitutional monarchy would weaken their power too much.

• All the Above

What were the contributions of Latin American Liberators, Bolivar, San Martin and L'Ouverture?

• They liberated Latin American countries from Spain and France.

• The created the modern nationalist model of countries in Latin America.

• The invaded Northern Europe in revenge for the slave trade and started WWI.

• Both a and b.

What were the causes, impactful events of the French Revolution including Napoleon

• Storming of the Bastille

• Bread Shortages

• The failure of absolutism

• All the above

1.  Francis Bacon

• a.       An English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.

• b.  French diplomat who fought for the French in America.

• c.  Farmer who cured pork meats for sandwiches for the French peasants

• d. Invented nationalism

1.  Nicholas Copernicus

• a. The Prussian leader that not only organized Germany as a single state, but defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian War.

• b. The first scientist to contemplate gravity, and organized math and science studies in England.

• c. He was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

• d. Required the German people to maintain well regulated militias in preparation for French invasions.

What were the various ideas from each individual enlightenment thinker and how did they impact later political revolutions.

• John Locke wrote about natural rights which inspired the Declaration of Independence

• Karl Rove developed aggressive political campaign strategies

• Montesque argued for the separation of powers, like was developed in the US Constitution.

• Both a and b

Galileo Galilei

• b. was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or “natural philosopher” second, and a metaphysician third. In mathematics, he developed the techniques that made possible algebraic (or “analytic”) geometry.

• d. championed Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the Sun) was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers.