WH Chp 21 Review

How did new technology such as the telescope and new theories such as Pascal's Law lay the foundation of the Scientific Revolution?

• The government used them to make scientific laws.
• Scientists used them to create more new inventions & theories.
• Ordinary people used them in their everyday life.
• Philosphers used them to think about ancient Greek ideas.

Francis Bacon believed that scientists should

• use reasoning.
• develop their own scientific methods.
• study philosophy.
• rely on ancient authorities.

Voltaire championed the religious philosophy of deism, which was based on

• reason and natural law.
• superstition.
• human nature and social conflict.
• biblical text.

Rousseau argues that society should be governed by the military.

• True
• False

According to Rousseau's concept of the social contract

• a society agrees to be governed by its general will.
• a government should exact harsh punishment for crime.
• the government should not interfere in economic affairs.
• people should be governed by their individual morality.

Montesquieu studied a system of government in which separation of powers caused the parts of the government to control and limit each other.

• True
• False

Laissez-faire is an economic doctrine that says the state should control the economy.

• True
• False

Which of the following discoveries was made by Maria Winkleman?

• a comet
• a black hole
• gravity
• heliocentric universe

Mary Wollstonecraft's ideas about the rights of women were based on

• women's need to live the same conditions as men.
• the idea that women have reason, like men.
• the unfairness of women not having the same rights as men.
• the government's unfair ideas about women's rights.

Education spread widely during the Enlightenment because

• books were written by the elite.
• schools were free for everyone.
• churches promoted education.
• reading material was aimed at the masses.