Enlightenment Exam

A revolution of ideas in math, science, and the nature of the universe which took place mid to late Renaissance era.

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• Heliocentric

A revolution where philosophers looked for natural laws to govern society and politics. 

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Geocentric

Theory which stated the universe revolves around the sun.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Galileo

Theory which stated the universe revolves around the earth.

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Copernicus

Believed the idea that the sun, not the earth was the center of the universe, and that the planets orbited the sun in a circular fashion.

• Copernicus

• Geocentric

• Galileo

Lived under house arrest because he proved the geocentric theory to be wrong.  The church forced him to “take back his findings”.

• Heliocentric

• Copernicus

• Galileo

Ruled most of Europe

• Salons

• Monarchs

• Reason & Progress

Used by intellectuals to gather in the evenings.

• Reason & Progress

• Monarchs

• Salons

Main ideas of the Enlightenment

• Monarchs

• Reason & Progress

• Salons

Believed humans were basically selfish, and out for themselves.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Galileo