Unit 6 Vocabulary Review- Age of Revolution

Match the following

• Certain rights belong to all humans

• Galileo

• Changed European thinking about government,philosophy and science; "woke"

• John Locke's natural rights

• Proved Nicolaus Copenicus's theory about the cun and the planets

• absolute monarchy

• Divine right

• John Locke

• Wrote social satire and advocated for civil right and religion in France

• Social Contract Theory

John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire are all associated with which time period?

• the Protestant Reformation

• The Enlightenment

• the Crusades

• Great Schism

Leaders of absolutism would agree with which of the following:

• all men are created equal

• do not question government authority

• countries should not go to war

• government should leave businesses alone

How did Louis XIV gain the support of one of the most powerful groups in France during his reign?

• He gained the support of the common people by building a new palace inside Paris.

• He gained the support of the common people by building the Palace of Versailles.

• He gained the support of the Catholic clergy by reducing religious freedom.

• He gained the support of the Catholic clergy by increasing religious freedom.

What method did both Peter the Great and Louis XIV use to gain total power during their reigns?

• They removed powerful nobles from political positions.

• They concentrated government power in a few families.

• They extended new rights and personal freedoms to commoners.

• They made the pope convince their people that they were chosen by God.

Moved the royal court to a location outside of Paris,replaced previous government officials with commoners, and repealed the Edict of Nantes that decreed religious tolerance

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Catherine the Great

• Napoleon Bonaparte

How did the Enlightenment affect the French Revolution?

• French revolutionaries sought to create a society in which the rights of the individual would be more important than those of the government.

• Revolutionaries hoped to establish a new legal system in which an absolute monarchy would govern according to Enlightenment principles.

• The supporters of the revolution wanted to institute a new constitution in which women would be given a more equal status to that of men.

• The revolution helped revitalize the French economy by adopting an economic system based on the natural laws of supply and demand.

What did Johannes Kepler discover?

• that planets are not stationary in the sky

• that the planets' orbits are circular

• that the planets' orbits are elliptical

• that planets are not all made of rock