The heliocentric theory states that the sun is at the middle of the solar system.
100
What is the geocentric theory?
The geocentric theory states that the earth is at the center of the solar system.
100
In 1773, a group of colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and threw 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor in response to British refusal to repeal the high tax on tea. What do we call this?
The Boston Tea Party
100
What are life, liberty, and property?
John Locke's Natural Rights
100
In 18th century France, these gatherings attracted artists, philosophers, and other thinkers to discuss new ideas.
Salons
200
Name the inquisitive method wherein a scientist develops a hypothesis and seeks to prove that hypothesis by experimentation.
Scientific Method
200
This scientist built and used a telescope to observe the planets, improving upon the heliocentric theory and risking excommunication.
Galileo
200
The "shot heard 'round the world", as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, was fired where?
Lexington and Concord
200
John Locke felt that a government should represent the will of the people. If they didn't do so, what did the people have the right to do?
Overthrow the government
200
Monarchs whose reforms reflected the Enlightenment ideals were known as....
Enlightened despots
300
Who invented and used the first microscope?
Leeuwenhoek
300
Much like Leonardo da Vinci, this scientist stole dead bodies and dissected them to learn more about anatomy than any of his contemporaries.
Vesalius
300
Having won the French and Indian War, Britain needed to increase revenue by introducing new taxes on everyday items with the Townshend Acts. Name three items that were taxed.
Sugar
Tea
Paint
Lead
Paper
Glass
300
An agreement, by which people create government.
The social contract
300
The first edition of the Encyclopedia was published in 1751 by who?
Diderot
400
This Polish academic first published his writings on the heliocentric theory in 1543.
Copernicus
400
Explaining gravity, inertia, and elliptical orbits was not enough. This scientist also invented calculus.
Sir Isaac Newton
400
After fighting began in Lexington and Concord, Thomas Jefferson began to draft the Declaration of Independence on the edge of Philadelphia at 7th & Market Streets. On what two pieces of American currency is Jefferson featured?
Nickel and $2 Bill
400
The author of Leviathan, this philosopher found life to be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
Thomas Hobbes
400
Social critics in France during the mid-1700's were known specifically as what?
Philosophes
500
This two-faced scientist discovered how blood was transported throughout the human body.
William Harvey
500
Felis Leo and Felis Domesticus are both examples of the two-word Latin name of the lion and the house cat, respectively. This classification system was developed by what scientist?
Linnaeus
500
The Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament in 1774. Name three of them.
Closed the Port of Boston
Ended self-government in Massachusetts
British officials could face stand trial in another colony or back in England
Colonists were forced to quarter British troops in their homes
500
This Enlightenment writer had more quotes than Kanye. He is quoted as saying: "Once the common people begin to reason, then everything is lost" as well as "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
Francois Marie Arouet
Voltaire
500
Religious toleration, reduced censorship, simplification of laws, improved education, and a discouragement of serfdom are all examples of what by who? (2 answers)