Scientific Rev and Enlightenment

What is the Enlightenment?

• The Lightening method used by Renaissance Painters

• The Intellectual movement in the1700’s when philosophers began questioning governments run by Absolute Monarchs backed by the Church’s idea of the Divine Right of Kings.

• The Scientific Revolution

• The movement by French Revolutionaries to dispel the British Monarchy

The "Social Contract" is:

• Understanding between upper and lower social classes

• Treaty between France and England

• Contract between enemy nations for trade

• People give up certain rights in exchange for security from the government

Who was the first to claim the Sun as the center of the universe?

• Johannes Kepler

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Isaac Newton

Inspired by the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment thinkers believed that:

• Dictators learn from their experience.

• Natural laws influence human society.

• Society matters more than individuals.

• Nature is beyond human understanding.

A logical, systematic approach to the solution of a scientific problem

• scientific method

• rationalism

• philosopher

• antiquity

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

John Locke believed that the liberty of man is to be under no other Legislative power that has not been established by...

• the consent of the governed

• the power of the church

• the authority of the monarchy

• the power of the dictator

The Declaration of Independence protects natural rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This document is evidence that the colonists were influenced by...

• the strict monarchial rule in Europe

• the system of Mercantilism

• the philosophies of the European Enlightenment

• the Bible's teachings of the Geocentric Theroy

John Locke believed a government should not deprive citizens of their natural rights of...

• freedom of religion

• life, liberty, and property

• owning a weapon

• a fair and speedy trial