Famous Thinkers
Science
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Renaissance Part 1
Renaissance Part 2
100
His social contract theory said that people gave up rights to a strong leader in exchange for law and order
Who is Hobbes?
100
The name of Copernicus' theory that the planets orbit the sun.
What is heliocentric?
100

The Enlightenment was based on what?

What is reason.

100

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

What is "rebirth"

100

What is secularism?

What is the idea that religion should be separated from political life.
200
She was an advocate of women's rights, especially when it came to education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
200
This approach to gathering and testing ideas emerged during the Scientific Revolution.
What is the scientific method?
200
Women in Paris hosted these events to spread enlightenment ideas.
What are salons?
200

Where did the Renaissance start?

What is Florence, Italy.

200

The painter Michelangelo painted most of what building in the Vatican?

What is the Sistine Chapel?

300
He was committed to the idea of individual freedom and direct democracy.
Who is Rousseau?
300

He discovered the telescope

Who is Galileo

300

John Locke's idea of natural rights influenced what United States document?

What is the Declaration of Independence.

300

When was the Renaissance mostly?

What are 14th through 17th centuries.

300

What is a fresco?

A watercolor done on wet plaster

400
He believed that people were born with three natural rights—life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
400

This man discovered the laws of physics and calculus

Who is Isaac Newton?

400

Diderot created what book?

What is the encyclopedia?

400

Machiavelli came up with the line: "It is better to be feared than loved" in what book?

What is The Prince.
400

The Renaissance spread because of what invention?

What is the printing press.

500

Who advocated for the "separation of powers" and a form of checks and balances?

Who is Montesquieu?

500
Galileo got in trouble with this group for promoting the idea that the planets moved around the sun.
What is the Catholic Church?
500

Monarchs who embraced some Enlightenment ideas are called this.

What are absolute despots.

500

What is humanism?

What is an intellectual movement that emphasized human potential to get excellence and promoted direct study of the literature, art, and civilization of classical Greece and Rome.

500

Name some Renaissance artists (hint: there are a lot of correct answers!)

Who are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and much more.
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