The Scientists
Isaac Newton is most famous for discovering this law.
What is the Law of Gravity?
These are the 3 Natural Rights promoted by John Locke during the Enlightenment Era.
What are life, liberty and property?
The Scientific Revolution challenged the traditional beliefs of powerful institution.
What is the Church?
Whom did Enlightenment supporters believe that the government should protect the rights of?
Who is the people?
John Locke's natural rights include life, liberty and this.
What is property?
This scientist is known for formulating this model of the universe, which placed the SUN, NOT the EARTH at the center of the solar system.
What is the Heliocentric Model?
Part of Rousseau's Social Contract, the people need to give this to their government, which would be based on the general will of the people.
What is consent?
One of the main causes of the Scientific Revolution was this; a religious movement that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, leading to the creation of various Protestant churches.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The Enlightenment is also known as this.
What is the Age of Reason?
The Scientific Revolution can be simply described as a conflict between science and this?
What is religion (the church)?
Galileo is known for improving this scientific instrument and confirming Copernicus' Heliocentric Model of the universe.
What is the telescope?
This is the term that Montesquieu argued for - wherein no single part of government can be too powerful in order to prevent tyranny
What is Separation of Powers?
The Scientific Revolution and Scientific Method were based on the belief that the world around you is best understood by this.
What is observation?
This invention helped spread the ideas of the Enlightenment to the people through books and publications.
What is the Printing Press?
The Enlightenment was a turning point in World History because Europeans changed their thinking about the role of this.
What is the government?
This Scientific Revolution era scientist promoted the Scientific Method and the use of reason to gain knowledge?
Who is Descartes?
Which philosopher argued that if the government does not protect the rights of the people, they can overthrow it?
Who is John Locke?
One of the effects of the of the Scientific Revolution was this era, which questioned the role of government in society.
What is the Enlightenment?
John Lock suggested that the people had the right to do this if the government failed to protect the peoples' rights.
What is overthrow it?
The scientists Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton are similar because they all practiced observation and this in their work. (Hint: it is the step in the Scientific Method where you collect data.)
What is experimentation?
Those who promoted the use of the Scientific Method, (using reason and observation to study the world around them) were strongly opposed by this powerful institution that wanted to maintain the power and traditional values they had held during the Middle Ages.
What is the Catholic Church?
Name the right AND philosopher - This Enlightenment philosopher argued for this right - a right which the United Stated gave US in the 1st Amendment of our Constitution.
Who is Voltaire and Freedom of Speech?
The Enlightenment occurred if this continent.
What is Europe?
The central idea of the Enlightenment is that this (using logical thinking to come to a conclusion) would lead to human progress.
What is reason?
The most significant effect of the Enlightenment period was that it provided the intellectual motivation for 2 of these in America and France.
What are revolutions?