This Enlightenment thinker is famous world-wide for developing social contract theory.
What is Thomas Hobbes.
100
The spread of ideas of progress and the betterment of society is a result of this philosophical movement.
What is Enlightenment?
100
What is the intellectual movement that valued individualism and reason above tradition?
What is enlightenment?
100
A simple and elegant style of art that emerged during the Enlightenment
What is Neoclassical
100
All physical objects are affected equally by the same forces
What is law of universal gravitation
200
This person wrote against intolerance and social inequality.
What is Voltaire?
200
The Enlightenment period inspired people in the lower/middle classes to think in terms of what?
What are individual wants and needs.
*intellectual wants and needs*
200
As more people were able to read more of these were being published
What are novels?
*popular amongst the middle class*
200
Voltaire's influence on the Constitution included
What is freedom of speech and press
200
Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experimentation, and Conclusion
What is the Scientific Method (correct steps in order!!)
300
Came up with the idea of dividing government power between separate branches.
What is Baron de Montesquieu?
300
The US government was created using this principle of power distribution.
What is Montesquieu's theory that government should be divided into separate branches.
300
Colonists in America believed that they should not be taxed by parliament because of this.
What is lack of representation?
300
John Locke influenced this American document
What is the Dec of Independance
300
The scientific method was a different way of thinking from the past where people relied on ancient authority and church teachings. For the first time people began to...
What is questioning authority
400
This Enlightenment thinker urged for equal rights among men, but left out women.
What is Rousseau?
400
This theory states that government gains their power through the consent of the governed.
What is social contract theory?
400
The difference between the old way of looking at the universe and the newer, more enlightenment way was that instead of the Earth in the middle it was the ____________.
What is the Sun?
400
These were absolute monarchs who attempted Enlightenment reform
What are Enlightened Despots
400
The theory that puts the earth in the center of the universe.
What is geocentric
500
This man insisted that man is born with three inherent rights: life, liberty, and property.
What is John Locke?
500
The people have the right to overthrow the government if these three rights are not protected.
What is life, liberty, and property?
500
This is the idea that the governments powers should not be held with one person or agency- they must be split up amongst different people.
What are separation of powers?
500
Thomas Hobbes and Catherine the Great would agree that this type of government is the best...
What is absolute monarchy
500
The theory that the sun is the center of the universe.