Key Terms
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment Spreads
Ch. 1-4 Review
100
This intellectual movement caused people to begin using logic and reasoning to find the truth.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This is a model of the universe with the sun at the center.
What is heliocentric?
100
This man believed that everyone had natural rights, and if the government did not protect them, people had the right to overthrow it.
Who is John Locke?
100
This man was a like a father to his people in Prussia, and a great example of an enlightened monarch.
Who is Frederick the Great?
100
This man began the Reformation by posting his 95 theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
This movement features people using observation and data to find answers to the natural phenomenon
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
This man first proposed the heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
200
This man thought that people were generally selfish and needed a strong ruler to protect them.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
This is why literacy is spreading during the Enlightenment.
What is increased availability and cheaper cost of books (printing press)?
200
This era was characterized by cultural rebirth in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This is the term for an absolute monarch influenced by Enlightenment ideas.
What is an enlightened despot?
300
The is a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
What is the scientific method?
300
This French man used his wit and satire to support ideas of freedom of speech.
Who is Voltaire?
300
This monarch of Russia spoke of Enlightenment ideas, but implemented very few of them out of fear of losing her throne.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
This man ended up in the Carribbean after sailing across the Atlantic in search of India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
This refers to the agreement between the government and its governed.
What is social contract?
400
This man was forced to recant his ideas under pressure from the Church.
Who is Galileo?
400
This woman fought for the rights of women and encouraged them to seek education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
Denis Diderot published and distributed this collection of Enlightenment articles.
What is the Encyclopedia?
400
This man was the first to sail around Africa to get to India.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
500
This is the term for the new style of art during the Enlightenment.
What is neoclassicalism?
500
These two men are credited with pioneering the scientific method.
Who is Rene Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon?
500
These were the effects of the Enlightenment.
What is increasing the power of the individual, changing ideas of government, increasing secularization, etc.?
500
This leader abolished serfdom and began paying wages to laborers, but these changes were reversed after his rule.
Who is Joseph II?
500
Explain the differences between the Anglican and Catholic Church.
What is English Monarch as head instead of pope, allowed Henry VIII to get divorced?
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