The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Spread of Enlightenment Ideas
Philosophes
People
100
This theory states that the sun is the center of our solar system.
The Heliocentric Theory
100
Enlightenment ideas were spread at these social gatherings.
Salons
100
Name three ways that enlightenment ideas spread throughout Europe and America.
Word of mouth, books, pamphlets, songs, newspapers, salons
100
This Philosophe believed people needed a strong absolute monarch to rule them.
Thomas Hobbes
100
This scientist proved gravity.
Isaac Newton
200
This theory states that the Earth is the center of the solar system.
Geocentric theory
200
The results of enlightenment thinking directly led to these two major world events.
The American and French Revolutions
200
Enlightenment ideas spread to these three areas of society
Music, Art, Writing/books
200
This Philosophe believed government should protect: Life, Liberty and Property.
John Locke
200
Who influenced the American Revolution by writing Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
300
He was imprisoned for proving the Heliocentric Theory was correct.
Galileo Galilei
300
This Philosophe advocated women's rights.
Mary Wolstonecraft
300
Monarchs that embraced enlightenment ideas were collectively known as what?
Enlightened Despots
300
This Philosophes ideas influenced freedom of speech and religion in our Bill of Rights.
Voltaire
300
This despot was going to end serfdom in Russia until a violent revolt by the serfs.
Catherine the Great
400
This scientist first developed the Heliocentric Theory.
Nicolaus Copernicus
400
The philosophes took the idea of the scientific method and applied it to...
Social issues/ society
400
This intricate and ornate art style was popular prior to the enlightenment.
Baroque
400
This Philosophes ideas influenced the separation of powers, or checks and balances, article in our constitution.
Montesquieu
400
This Prussian despot believed he was "first servant of the state" and introduced religious freedom.
Frederick the Great
500
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes helped to develop what?
The Scientific Method
500
The idea for protection from cruel and unusual punishment came from this philosophe.
Beccaria
500
Denis Diderot spread enlightenment ideas through this.
Encyclopedia
500
This Philosophe was a strong believer in Democracy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
500
This Austrian despot had most of their reforms undone after their death.
Joseph II
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