Definition
Educated people.
What are Scholars?
The Scientist who created the telescope and found the rings on Saturn.
Who is Galileo?
Monarchs
what were the Kings and Queens called?
Interprets the laws; court system.
what is a Judicial Branch?
False beliefs.
what is superstition mean?
A time in the 1500’s and 1600’s where scientists tried to explain the workings of the universe by using logic, reason and science.
What is The Enlightenment?
People who studied politics, justice, liberty, property.
what are Political Philosophers?
Kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them.
what was Absolute Monarchs?
Makes the laws; Senate, Congress.
what is a Legislative Branch?
Unfair treatment of a group of people.
what does persecution mean?
A gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
What are Salons?
Argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
The idea that a king ruled by the authority of God
what was to Divine rights of kings?
Enforces the laws; police, military. President.
what is a Executive Branch?
Rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property.
what was natural rights?
Publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books.
What is Encyclopedia?
Said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were learned from experiences.
who was John Locke?
To give permission to be governed.
what were Consent?
Freedom.
what is liberty?
Open minded and educated.
what does Enlightened mean?
A time beginning in the 1600’s and lasting until the 1700’s in which philosophers used reason to seek truths about human nature; also known as the Age of Reason.
what was Scientific Revolution?
Spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times.
who is Voltaire?
Form of government where people choose leaders by voting.
what are Democracy?
Disagree with.
what does Opposed mean?
The change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
what was Revolutionary?