Science
True/False: Most scientists of this time were "anti-religion".
What is false?
What is a Government/Political Revolution?
What it means to go against "social norms"
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness comes from this thinker's original phrase. (+ the phrase)
Who is John Locke? Life, liberty, and property?
The idea that people can use reason.
What is rationalism?
Born in Germany in 1571 to a poor family, this scientist discovered the path of the planets was not a perfect circle but an ______.
Who is Johannes Kepler? What is an oval/elliptical?
What is democratic?
These events in chronological order. (Mrs. G will announce them)
What is Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment?
Montesquieu's belief about government.
What is power must be separated amongst multiple rulers or branches to avoid a corrupt ruler.
A person who went against the Church and would spread ideas about science.
What is a heretic?
In 1543, this person proposed the sun was the center of the universe & the name of this theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus? What is the Heliocentric or Copernican Theory?
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What an enlightenment thinker would believe about the relationship between the government and the people.
Answers vary. Mention social contract, government protecting citizens rights.
This person was jailed for doing this, leading to this fundamental right listed in the US Constitution.
Who is Voltaire? What is writing critically about government leaders? Making fun of them in his verses? What is Freedom of Speech?
Both Greek rationalism and ________ are foundations of the Scientific Revolution.
What is humanism?
With use of Kepler's research, ______ discovered the Earth's _____________ ____ extended all the way to the moon.
Who is Newton? What is gravitational pull?
Enlightenment Thinkers believed that people did not need to do this for the good of a ruler or society.
What is sacrifice what they want or their beliefs?
Two things Fredrick II did trying to improve society.
What is increased religious tolerance, attempted to create universal education, required judges to pass an exam to sit on the court, introducing new crops and industries to peasants to improve their lives, and changing land policies?
What is to declare their independence?
A group that makes or changes laws.
What is parliament?
Fill in the blanks: Using his new telescope, _______ saw that the surface of the ____ was not ______. The planet, _______ had multiple _______ orbiting it. Also noticing the ____ had __________.
1. Galileo 2. moon 3. smooth 4. Jupiter 5. moons 6. sun 7. sunspots
This person wrote about the importance of children being educated, spending time in nature, and the most important component of a democratic government.
Who is Rousseau? What is voting on laws the people must follow?
This is the system of hierarchy that existed before the enlightenment ideas spread throughout Europe. Explain and/or name the system.
What is the Feudal System? The system is a social ranking with peasants on the bottom, knights next, nobles after that, and royals at the top?
Name 3 foundations of US government that can be traced back to the enlightenment.
What is free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to petition government, separation of powers, or voting?
Explain the connection between individualism and democracy.
What is the idea that individuals and their rights are important and in a democracy individuals have a say/some power over their government?