Age of Revolutions

This Polish mathematician and astronomer is recognized for his model of the universe that placed the Sun at the center and not the Earth. This is known as heliocentrism

• Copernicus

• Voltaire

• Kepler

• Locke

German mathematician and astronomer best known for his laws of planetary motion. He improved upon Copernicus' theory and said that the planets rotate in an elliptical form and not circular.

• Kepler

• Newton

• Locke

• Voltaire

English mathematician and physicist, best known for his laws of motion

• Newton

• Copernicus

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

This philosophical movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Protestant Reformation

He was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher who advocated for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state

• Voltaire

• Galileo

• Newton

• Rousseau

A Geocentric solar system is ______________?

• Sun Centered

• Mars Centered

• Earth Centered

• has no center

The Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas on natural rights (life, liberty, and property) influenced the Constitution of the United States is

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• Rene Descartes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

________________ formulated the concept of a social contract, which is based on the principle that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Robert Boyle

The concept Enlightenment thinker ______________ is best known for is separation of powers in government.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• Voltaire

Absolutism means

• the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.

• ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

• subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.

• no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.