Scientific Revolution
This system placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric system?
During the 1700s writers and artists held these social gatherings where ideas were exchanged.
What are salons?
To the philosopher, the role of philosophy was to do this.
What is change the world?
He determined the solar system was heliocentric.
Who was Copernicus?
This enlightenment thinker believed that humans are bad by nature and need a strong government to keep them in line.
Who is Hobbes?
This new painting and architecture style developed during the Enlightenment, borrowing ideas from ancient Greece and Rome.
What is neoclassical?
Using a telescope, he discovered mountains on Earth's moon and spots on the sun.
Who was Galileo?
John Locke believed that people were entitled to these three basic rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This ruler was influenced by the Enlightenment, but gave more power to nobles over serfs even though she wanted to end serfdom.
Who is Catherine the Great?
He and many other philosophies believed that the universe was like a clock.
Who were Voltaire or Newton?
Rousseau believed in this form of democracy where everyone votes on everything.
What is direct democracy?
This woman argued that women's education should be equal to that of a man's.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This is the belief that God created the universe and set in in motion much like a complex clock, then stepped away.
What is Deism?
These two philosophes had differing ideas on government and human nature.
Who are Hobbes and Locke?
This term for rulers who partially embraced the Enlightenment but were unwilling to give up much power because popular during the 1700s.
What are enlightened despots?
This man wrote about the separation of powers between branches of government, an idea we use today.
Who is Montesquieu?