The Enlightenment- Worksheet Copy

Due to Scientific Revolution, people believed that our world has ______.

• a chaotic design
• an unpredictable nature
• reason and order

A time period, mostly in the 1700's, where philosophers and thinkers thought science and reason could improve all humanity.

• Enlightenment
• Great Awakening
• American Revolution
• French Revolution

What is another name for the Enlightenment?

• The Age of Reason
• The Age of Great Philosophers
• The Age of Religion
• The Age of Revolution

During the enlightenment, democratic powers (rights and liberties) rest with which group of

• women

• men

• ordinary citizens

• kings

The Enlightenment began to rethink beliefs about us as humans in which areas?

• A) Government, religion, economics, education

• B) Science, art, literature, music

• C) Agriculture, industry, technology, medicine

• D) Philosophy, ethics, law, politics.

The Enlightenment encouraged individuals to use their own abilities and reason to do what?

• solve problems

• Create art

• Write literature

• Build empires

During The Enlightenment, people developed new ideas about ...

• the level of control they should have over their government

• the level of control the Sun exerts on Earth's orbit

• how their food crops should be grown

• how their houses should be arranged

The New idea of government is that the government's power comes from ___

Explain the importance of the individual to the ideas of the Enlightenment.

Group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment.

• Sorcerers

• Musketeers

• Philosophes

• Critics