Scientific Rev and Enlightenment Quiz

Which economic idea supports minimal government interference in business and promotes free-market principles?

• A.    mercantilism

• A.    socialism

• A.    laissez-faire

• A.    communism

force that pulls objects in Earth’s sphere to the center of earth

• gravity

• censorship

• heliocentric

Who is credited with writing the first comprehensive encyclopedia?

• A.    Voltaire

• A.    Denis Diderot

• A.    John Locke

• A.    Adam Smith

What term is commonly used to describe inherent rights that are believed to belong to every human being?

• constitutional rights

• legal rights

• civil rights

• natural rights

In which century did the Scientific Revolution begin?

• 17th

• 16th

• 15th

• 14th

What did Johannes Kepler discover about the orbits of planets?

• A.    orbits are perfect circles

• A.    orbits are parabolas

• A.    orbits are concentric squares

• A.    orbits are ellipses with sun at the center

sun is the center of the universe

• gravity

• heliocentric

• salon

restriction on access to ideas and information

• salon

• free market

• censorship

market regulated by the natural laws of supply and demand

• free market

• mercantilism

• socialism

social gathering where writers, artists, and philosophes exchanged ideas

• socialism

• rococo

• salon