Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

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According to Copernicus, the sun

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Was the center of the Universe

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Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued:

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That Earth revolved around the sun

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The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.

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geocentric

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During the scientific  revolution people started using experiments to test theories rather than just believing the ___________

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Church

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How did scientists begin challenging authority during the Scientific Revolution?

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By testing old beliefs using logic, math and observations.

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Renaissance humanism held that beliefs based upon what a person observed and experienced were more valid than beliefs based upon

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religious teachings

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Absolutist monarchs were ones who

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gathered all power under their personal control.

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What is divine right?

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The right to rule was given to the monarch by God.

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Which quotation was most likely made by an absolute monarch? Options: "The government that governs best, governs least.", "I am the state.", "The government must be based on a sound constitution.", "It is the parliament that must make the laws."

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"I am the state."

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The ideas of Enlightenment philosophers were based on: efforts to achieve salvation, faith in human reason, traditional practices, the inevitability of poverty

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faith in human reason