World History 2 Quiz

Government in which leaders rule without restrictions.

• Autocratic
• Unlimited
• Republic
• Limited

The Age of Enlightenment began

• Before Exploration
• After the American Revolution
• During Prehistoric Times
• In the 18th Century

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries?

• Catholic Church
• Roman Gods
• Baptist ministers
• The Queen of Spain

Which of the following is an example of an “unlimited government?”

• Democracy
• Absolute Monarch
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Republic

The Enlightenment thinker that had the most influence on the US Declaration of Independence was...

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

The procedure for testing theories that starts with a question

• Procedural Operations
• Methods of Operation
• Scientific Method
• Steps in a process

This diagram is representative of which theory that was NOT supported by the Catholic Church?

• Geocentric
• Concentric
• Heliocentric
• Geothermantic

Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:

• Electricity
• Human biology
• Motion and gravity
• Astronomy

Which astronomer was tried for heresy and placed under house arrest because he argued that the universe was heliocentric?

• Copernicus
• Newton
• Ptolemy
• Galileo