WorksheetsChp 13 SS
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 5hrs 30mins
1) astronomer and inventor who proved the heliocentric theory
Galileo
Ptolemy
2) The job of this branch of government is to make the laws.
Legislative branch
Congress
3) a political thinker who believed that governments should
protect people’s rights
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
4) Because classical thinkers often based their conclusions on this, some of their beliefs turned out to be false.
Common sense
Experiments
5) What Russian monarch allowed nobles to dominate the serfs?
Catherine the Great
Hitler
6) What Austrian’s reforms included improved living conditions for serfs as well as the setting up of schools?
Maria Theresa
George Washington
7) During what age did political thinkers try to use reason to
improve the government?
The Enlightenment
The Middle Ages
8) The scientist who believed that the solar system was held
together by the force of gravity was....
Isaac Newton
Copernicus
9) Ptolemy’s theory that the sun moved around the Earth.
Geocentric
Heliocentric
10) These two differed in their views of how the government was influenced by natural law.
Thomas Hobbes and John locke
Isaac Newton
11) What did the Petition of Right do?
It limited the power that the king had by not letting him tax people with out the approval of Parliament. Also he could not imprison people with out a just reason. The petition also states that he can not declared a state of emergency unless the country was at war.
It made parliament more powerful
12) The political thinker who believed in deism
Voltaire
John Locke
13) Which step of the scientific method means to create an
explanation of the facts as you see them?
Hypothesize
Observe
14) Voltaire opposed governments that...
Favored one religion and forbade others
Were Communists
15) This political thinker believed that people needed strong rule by a leader who had total power
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
16) Who does “the judiciary” refer to?
Judges and Courts
Presidents
17) Classical scientific methods were less accurate than those based on this person’s later scientific method...
Sir Francis Bacon
Thomas Hobbes
18) True/False A scientific theory is correct if it seems to
explain the facts.
True
False
