Politics around 1750

Which statement best expresses the ideas of the Scientific Revolution?

• Religious authorities are responsible for understanding and interpreting new information.

• Superstition and magic are important aspects of the natural world.

• Scientific ideas should be made to conform with existing thought systems.

• People should use reason and experimentation to draw scientific conclusions.

Where is the Mughal Empire?

The term divine right is best defined as a

• revolution to gain political rights and freedoms

• philosophy that encourages religious toleration

• belief that a ruler's authority comes from God

• system in which a monarch has limited power

Who said it?

'…I disapprove with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

Who said it?

'When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, … there can be no liberty; … [they]enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner..'

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

Who said it?

'VOTING: There is but one law which, from its nature, needs unanimous consent. This is the social compact; for civil association is the most voluntary of all acts.'

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

Who said it?

'if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people, by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property.'

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

Which pair of ideas were central to the Scientific Revolution?

• social stability and economic self-sufficiency

• observation and experimentation

• technology and military expansion

• scarcity and interdependence

An agreement between rulers and the people to cooperate for mutual social benefits in pursuit of a better society

• divine right

• popular consent

• laissez-faire

• social contract

A person(s) who had unlimited authority and almost no legal limit. (Choose all that apply)

• A Tyrant

• An Absolute Monarch

• A Philosophe

• A Salon Manager