APWH Units 3/4 Religion & Science

What is the name of the European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition?

• The Enlightenment

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Age of Exploration

• The Reformation

What refers to the period of time roughly from 1500 to 1700 which witnessed fundamental transformations in people’s attitudes towards the natural world?

• The Scientific Revolution

• Bhakti Movement

• The Age of Enlightenment

• The Renaissance

Which Religious Movement started in the Punjab region of northern India whose founder, Guru Nanak (1469–1539), came to believe that “there is no Hindu; there is no Muslim; only God.? This religion ignored caste distinctions and untouchability and ended the seclusion of women, while proclaiming the “brotherhood of all mankind” as well as the essential equality of men and women.

• Sikhism

• Islam

• Hinduism

• Islam

What is the name of the South Asian Movements of the late 1400s that provided an avenue for social criticism. Its practitioners often set aside caste distinctions and disregarded the detailed rituals of the Brahmin priests in favor of direct contact with the divine?

• Bhakti

• Sufism

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

Which of the following refers to the 18th century movement characterized by a critical approach to religious, social, and philosophical matters that seeks to reject beliefs or systems not based on or justifiable by rational thought?

• The Age of Reason

• The Enlightenment Revolution

• The Age of Exploration

• The Scientific Revolution

Which of the following was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s that challenged the dominance of the Catholic Church.

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Enlightenment Movement

• Wahhabi

• The Protestant Reformation

Who was the person who developed an improved telescope; discovered

sunspots, mountains on the moon, and Jupiter's

moons; performed experimental work on the velocity

of falling objects?

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Francis Bacon

• Copernicus

Who synthesized earlier findings around the concept of

universal gravitation; invented calculus; formulated

concept of inertia and laws of motion

• Isaac Newton

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

​ ​ (a)   was a Jesuit Missionary who traveled to India & Japan?​

• Francis Xavier
• Martin Luther
• Mateo Ricci
• Guru Nanak

Found in the 16th century through the 19th century, ________________ is characterized by the ending of feudal partitioning, consolidation of power with the monarch, rise of state power, unification of the state laws, and a decrease in the influence of the church and the nobility.

• Sikhism

• The Enlightenment

• Absolutism

• Mercantilism