The Scientific Revolution and Englightenment

Who was the French satirist who targeted the clergy, the rich, the gov, & wrote on free speech?

• voltaire

• wollstonecraft

• hobbes

• rousseau

The new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power to solve problems

• natural rights

• neoclassicism

• baroque

• enlightenment

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that

• society must control most aspects of people’s behavior

• People should elect their leaders

• people are basically evil

• ndividual interests should be placed above the good of the community

wrote “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience"

• Beccaria

• Wollstonecraft

• Hobbes

• Bacon

The principles of checks and balances and separation of powers were put forward by

• Mary Wolstonecraft

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

• Cesare Beccaria

The event that would later inspire the American, French, and Haitian Revolution was what?

• The Enlightenment

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Age of Absolutism

• The Age of Exploration

Copernicus proposed which of the following?

• The sun travels around the Earth

• The Earth travels around the sun

• Gravity keeps the planets in orbit around the sun

• The Earth is the center of the Universe

Galileo had to withdraw his theories about the Earth's rotation because

• He found out he was wrong

• the ideas had caused him public ridicule

• the Church threatened him with death if he did not

• he wished to do more research

Until the Scientific Revolution, the traditional authorities were

• The English Churct

• The Catholic Church

• explorers

• monarchies

The belief that the sun is the center of the universe is called

• geocentric

• singlecentric

• hypothesis

• heliocentric