Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Quiz

Who formulated three laws of how the planets revolve around the sun?

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Galileo

Which astronomer provided more evidence for the heliocentric theory and questioned if the heavens really were perfect?

• Newton

• Kepler

• Galileo

• Copernicus

Who discovered gravity, invented calculus, and formulated the laws of motion?

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galileo

• Copernicus

Which philosopher believed in freedom of religion and freedom of speech?

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Louis XIV

Who was known as the Sun King and completely controlled France as an absolute monarch?

• Louis XIV

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Who completed the unification of Japan and became the sole ruler of Japan?

• Napoleon

• Tsar Peter the Great

• Tokugawa Ieyasu

• Louis XIV

Polish astronomer and clergyman who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center--heliocentric (1473-1543)

• Galileo Galilei
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Isaac Newton
• Johannes Kepler

A movement of ideas that occurred in Europe between 1680 and 1790. Attempted to apply reason to understand, explain, and even change the world; The Age of Reason

• Dark Ages
• Medieval Era
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment

(English) Wrote "Two Treatises of Government." Said human nature lived free and had the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. He said government was created in order to protect these rights and if the government failed to do so it was the duty of the people to rebel.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Karl Marx
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; wrote "The Social Contract"--the idea that people agree to be governed for the greater good.

• Voltaire
• Immanuel Kant
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau