Unit 1 Test

Prior to 1400, where did most of the explanations and answers to questions about the world come from?

• The King

• Science

• The Catholic Church

• Village Elders

What was the effect of the Age of Exploration and the Renaissance that took place during the 1400s?

• The Catholic Church was forced to destroy all old texts in exchange for new findings

• An explosion of new sciences and areas of study developed in Europe…all questioning old truths

• Monarchs began openly defying church teachings

• Interest in the new world increased and then declined quickly

What two men are responsible for making the scientific method popular?

• Bacon and Descartes

• Voltaire and Kepler

• Newton and Locke

• Aristotle and Copernicus

What is Isaac Newton's contribution to the Scientific Revolution?

• Invented Calculus

• Invented the barometer

• Created the heliocentric theory

• Created the Law of Gravity

The writer of Leviathan and an Enlightenment thinker who said all humans enter into a social contract where we agree to give up some rights and freedoms in exchange for strong leaders who will protect us from chaos. Also said all humans are selfish and bad.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Denis Diderot

• Mary Wollstonecraft

Philosophe who advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Fought against the Catholic Church.

• Montesquieu

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Philosophe who proposed separating power of gov. into different branches that have checks and balances on each other's power

• Montesquieu

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Philosophe who believed in individual freedoms, true equality and direct democracy.

• Montesquieu

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Philosophe who focused on the justice system, called for fair courts, speedy trials, fair consequences, no torture or death penalty

• Montesquieu

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

All of the following methods were used to spread the Enlightenment except

• Books

• Church Sermons

• Magazines

• Word of mouth