A mathematician who showed that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
100
Voltaire championed the religious philosophy of deism, which was based on _______. (+1)
What are reason and natural law?
100
Montesquieu had incorporated this into the U.S. Constitution.
What is the separation of powers?
100
The idea that the state should not interfere with the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
100
The ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that guarantee certain freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This person believed that the universe was heliocentric.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
200
France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic helped the American colonists win their independence from Great Britain because of _______. (+1)
What is the fact that these nations wanted revenge against the British Empire for earlier defeats?
200
The Church attacked Galileo because he defended the system that said the ______ revolved around the sun.
What is the Earth?
200
A style that emphasized grace and charm.
What is rococo?
200
Many intellectuals of the 1500s and 1600s did not take Margaret Cavendish’s work seriously because _______.
What is because she was a woman?
300
A philosopher who argued that people are born with a blank mind and are molded by their experiences.
Who is John Locke?
300
A result of the Treaty of Paris which led to the end of the Seven Years War. (+1)
What is that France was forced to leave India?
300
According to Rousseau, the general will represents what is best for _____.
What is the entire community?
300
A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence.
What is the Scientific Method?
300
America's first constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
The father of modern rationalism.
Who is Rene Descartes?
400
Frederick II of Prussia, Joseph II of Austria, and Catherine II of Russia were enlightened absolutionists whose main goal was to ______. (+1)
What is safeguard the welfare state?
400
The scientific method grew out of the belief that the world is best understood through this...
What is direct observation?
400
The explanation of why planetary bodies stay in orbit around the sun.
What is the universal law of gravitation?
400
Inventions that made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation.
What are the microscope and telescope?
500
The first European to explore the universe with a telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
The 5 places where the Seven Years War took place. (+1)
What is Africa, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean?
500
In their battle for control of Silesia, these two nations set the stage for the Seven Years' War in Europe.
What are Austria and Prussia?
500
The elegant urban drawing rooms where, in the eighteenth century, writers, artists, aristocrats, government officials, and wealthy middle-class people gathered to discuss the ideas of the philosophes.
What is a salon?
500
This thing created a British tax on newspapers and other printed materials.