The Enlightenment can be summed up into what one word?
What is reason?
100
Which breakfast food loving scientific thinker promoted the Scientific Method?
Who is Francis Bacon?
100
This philosopher supported in absolutism because people are naturally greedy and selfish.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
A form of government in which one ruler has total power.
What is absolutism?
100
How many laws of motions did Isaac Newton discover?
What is three laws?
200
Many philosophers believed these rights were the key to a good government and applied to all men.
What is natural law?
200
Which scientific thinker was put on house arrest after being accused of heresy?
Who is Galileo?
200
This philosopher is known as the founder of the women's rights movement.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
200
The belief that kings and queens were put in place by God.
What is divine right?
200
Before the Scientific Revolution, ancient cultures often came to mathematical/scientific conclusions using what?
What is common sense or traditional beliefs?
300
Where did philosophes often meet to discuss and debate new ideas?
What are salons?
300
This scientific thinker challenged the geocentric theory of the universe by promoting the heliocentric theory
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
This philosopher believed in the natural rights of: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
300
A system of government in which the people have the power through voting.
What is a democracy?
300
Who felt threatened and angry by the new scientific findings during the Scientific Revolution?
Who is the Church?
400
When political power is split into separate branches, what naturally happens to a government?
What are checks and balances?
400
This thinker studied gravity and the laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
This philosopher promoted the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
400
A government system in which the king/queen has to abide by laws laid out by the people.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
400
What two eras greatly influenced the Scientific Revolution?
What is the Age of Exploration and the Renaissance?
500
The belief that citizens obey a gov't in return for protection and care from the gov't; if the gov't fails, the people should overthrow the gov't
What is the social contract theory?
500
Name the philosopher AND his belief that shaped the free market economy.
Who is Adam Smith and his Laissez-Faire economic system?
500
A government system in which the elected party with the greatest representation in the legislature forms the gov't and its leader becomes head of state.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
500
Johannes Kepler better explained the motion of the planets by discovering they move around the sun in what shape?