Unit 4 The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

Until the Scientific Revolution, the traditional authorities were . . .

• Muslim scribes.

• the Catholic church and ancient scholars.

• Confucius and the Buddha.

• navigators and explorers.

The Catholic church considered some thinkers of the Scientific Revolution to be heretics because they . . .

• questioned the authority of the church.

• loved science more than religion.

• traveled frequently to Africa.

• valued natural resources.

During the Scientific Revolution, European scientists focused their work on explaining . . .

• how government affects the individual.

• the workings of the natural world.

• human behavior using celestial bodies to make predictions.

• the meaning of life.

Thomas Hobbes believed . . .

• people are naturally greedy and selfish; therefore, they should only be governed by an absolute monarch.

• people are for the most part good, but society corrupts them to become bad.

• in the Tabula Rasa theory where people are blank slates and experience shapes them.

• that the Enlightenment thinkers were silly.

Which Enlightenment thinker said, "If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

Which of the following people is NOT considered to be an Enlightenment thinker?

• Voltaire

• Roger Bacon

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

What is the first step of the Scientific Method?

• observation

• experiment

• analysis

• hypothesis

A common theme among Enlightenment thinkers was . . .

• faith in traditional religious beliefs.

• a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity.

• There was not a common theme among the Enlightenment thinkers.

• support for democratic forms of government.

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people's natural rights.

• False

• True

The work of which scientist was most strongly condemned by the Catholic church?

• Isaac Newton

• Francis Bacon

• Robert Boyle

• Galileo Galilei