The Age of Reason & Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment took place during what centuries?

• 1400s & 1500s

• 1600s & 1700s

• 1800s & 1900s

• 1100s & 1200s

Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in...

• Protecting the power of Kings

• The role of Church in society

• Changing the relationship between people and government

• Soccer

Which statement would Enlightenment thinkers agree with?

• Government exists to serve the peole

• Government should serve the church

• Government must be ruled by a king

• Government shouldn't exist at all

What is Rousseau's idea for a society in which people enter into an agreement with goverment?

• Social Network

• Natural Laws

• Common Sense

• Social Contract

What Polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric universe with the sun at the center?

• Mozart

• Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Isaac Newton

This person believed that humans are basically beasts, and need government to keep law & order.

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

This scientist studies how the human heart pumps blood through the body.

• Isaac Newton

• William Harvey

• Galileo

• Francis Bacon

This person argued for freedom of speech and religion, and the separation of church and state.

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

• John Locke

Who said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?

• Montesquieu

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• King Louis XIV

"I believed that women should be educated and work in the same jobs as men..."

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft