Chapter 7 Test

term for a time period in the 1500s & 1600s during which scientists looked for natural laws that governed the physical world

• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution
• Thinking Revolution

term for an earth-centered universe

• geocentric
• heliocentric

term for an sun-centered universe

• geocentric
• heliocentric

early modern astronomer who used the telescope to collect data which proved that the universe was heliocentric

• Boyle
• Galileo
• Kepler

early modern astronomer who asserted that the universe was sun-centered and the planets orbited it in an elliptical pattern

• Boyle
• Galileo
• Kepler

According to Hobbes, in the state of nature, humans were naturally ___.

• Good
• Bad
• Mid

What were Montesquieu’s Observations about Government?

Rousseau believed that ___ corrupted people’s naturally good natures.

• Wives
• Children
• Government

term for the dominant economic theory during early modern Europe in which governments maintained strict control over the economy

• mercantilism
• capitalism
• laissez-faire

In capitalism, what happens to the price of an item when the supply is low and the demand is high?

• It decreases
• It increases
• It is not affected