Enlightenment and Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

Copernicus

• Polish cleric/ astronomer; came up with the heliocentric theory.
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory
• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles

Galileo

• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, and freedom of speech and religion

Kepler

• Mathematician; proved Copernicus's basic ideas true
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory

Newton

• Scientist who discovered the laws of motion and gravity
• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory
• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles

Enlightenment

• Age of Reason
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory
• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles

Locke

• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory
• Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, and freedom of speech and religion

Voltaire

• Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, and freedom of speech and religion
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory
• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles

Rousseau

• French Enlightenment thinker who championed direct democracy and believed that people are born good and corrupted by society
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles

Louis XIV

• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles
• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• Scientist who was imprisoned by the Church because he wrote the heliocentric theory

Tsar Peter the Great

• Leader of Russia who began westernization
• English philosopher who believed people are born with natural rights- life, liberty, and property
• French king who was an absolute ruler; built the palace at Verailles
• Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, and freedom of speech and religion