15 - The Enlightenment

The Age Enlightenment took place during what centuries?

• 1400s & 1500s.
• 1600s & 1700s
• 1800s & 1900s
• 1100s & 1200s

Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in...

• Protecting the power of Kings
• The role of Church in society
• Changing the relationship between people and government
• Soccer

Which statement would Enlightenment thinkers agree with?

• Government exists to serve the people
• Government should serve the church
• Government must be ruled by a king
• Government shouldn't exist at all

What is Rousseau's idea for a society in which people enter into an agreement with government?

• Social Network
• Natural Laws
• Common Sense
• Social Contract

What Polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric universe with the sun at the center?

• Mozart
• Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Isaac Newton

This person believed that humans are basically beasts, and need government to keep law & order.

• John Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

This scientist studied how the human heart pumps blood through the body.

• Isaac Newton
• William Harvey
• Galileo
• Francis Bacon

This person argued for freedom of speech and religion, and the separation of church and state.

• Voltaire
• Thomas Hobbes
• Rousseau
• John Locke

Who said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

• Montesquieu
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Voltaire
• King Louis XIV

"I believed that women should be educated and work in the same jobs as men.."

• John Locke
• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Mary Wollstonecraft