Study Guide Absolutism, Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution

Mary Wollstonecraft

• A capitalist who said people are better off making their own economic decisions with no government regulation.
• Argued that brutal punishments did not stop others from committing crimes. Was against torture and the death penalty.
• Argued for equal rights for women in education, social equality, and economic life

The Heliocentric system was introduced and proven by the following people

• Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo
• Ptolemy, Newton, Galileo
• Pascal, Kepler, Newton
• Copernicus, Galileo, Newton

Who proposed the idea of rationalism?

• Isaac Newton
• Galileo Galilei
• Copermicus
• Rene Descartes

A procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence for the science of evolution is

• Rationalism
• Scientific Method
• Humanism
• Baroque

Separation of Powers

• a system of checks & balances between branches of government
• document or source used to analyze evidence
• breaking away from the Catholic Church
• movement to account for the unconscious mind

who was the champion of deism?

• Locke
• Rousseau
• Voltaire
• Diderot

Laissez-Faire

• free money
• a lazy fair
• government owns and controls the means of production
• government should leave economy alone

Jean Jacques Rousseau proposed the idea of ____

• Social Darwinism
• Social Contract
• Social Renaissance
• Social Security

What system did Ptolemy believe in?

• geocentric model
• heliocentric model
• scientific method
• pascal method

What did the Church order Galileo to do and why?

• take back discoveries as it went against the authority of the Church
• continue his discoveries as it gave the Church more power
• create a separate church to break away from Catholicism