Enlightenment-9th Grade World History

HE BELIEVED THAT LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY WERE NATURAL RIGHTS AFFORDED TO ALL PEOPLE

• BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
• JOHN LOCKE

A SYSTEMATIC PROCEDURE FOR COLLECTING AND ANALYZING EVIDENCE THAT WAS CRUCIAL TO THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD

• SCIENTIFIC METHOD
• SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

FRENCH FOR “PHILOSOPHER”; APPLIED TO ALL INTELLECTUALS (SUCH AS WRITERS, JOURNALISTS, ECONOMISTS, AND SOCIAL REFORMERS) DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT

• SALON
• PHILOSOPHE

RIGHTS WITH WHICH ALL HUMANS ARE SUPPOSEDLY BORN, INCLUDING THE RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY

• NATURAL RIGHTS
• MAGNA CARTA

HE BELIEVED GOVERNMENTS ARE CREATED TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM THEIR OWN SELFISHNESS

• THOMAS HOBBES
• ISAAC NEWTON

WHICH ENLIGHTENMENT THINKER BELIEVED PEOPLE ARE SELFISH BY NATURE AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT WERE GOOD FOR SOCIETY AS A WHOLE?

• COPERNICUS
• THOMAS HOBBES

HE BELIEVED THAT THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS IS TO DIVIDE POWER AMONG THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

• BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
• BECCARIA

WHAT WERE THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT PROPOSED BY MONTESQUIEU?

A SYSTEM OF THOUGHT EXPOUNDED BY RENE’ DESCARTES BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT REASON IS THE CHIEF SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

• DESCARTISM
• RATIONALISM

A PERSON OF MIXED EUROPEAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN DESCENT

• MESTIZO
• MELTING POT