New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question.
What is Scientific Revolution
100
Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity.
What is Isaac Newton
100
Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.
What is Voltaire
100
Social gathering for discussing ideas or enjoying art
What is Salons
100
This Enlightenment thinker produced a 28-volume set of books called Encyclopedia.
What is Denis Diderot
200
Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe.
What is Heliocentric theory
200
Age of Reason
What is Enlightenment
200
French writer concerned with government and political liberty
What is Montesquieu
200
Grand, ornate style
What is Baroque
200
This Enlightenment thinker published the "Two treaties of Government" in 1690.
What is John Locke
300
View which held that the earth was the center of the universe.
What is Geocentric theory
300
According to Thomas Hobbes, an agreement people make with government.
What is Social Contract
300
Enlightenment thinker who championed freedom
What is Rousseau
300
Simple style that borrowed ideas from classical Greece and Rome.
What is Neoclassical
300
This revolutionary published "Common Sense" which called on the colonists to declare their independence from Britain and echoed the themes of the Enlightenment.
What is Thomas Paine
400
Scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientific ideas that disagreed with the church's view.
What is Galileo Galilei
400
Philosopher who wrote about government
What is John Locke
400
Author who wrote about women's rights
What is Mary Wollstonecraft
400
Ruler who supported Enlightenment ideas but did not give up on power.
What is Enlightened despot
400
He became our first president of the United States of America, and led the American army against the British during our fight for independence.
What is George Washington
500
Logical procedures for gathering and testing ideas.
What is Scientific Method
500
Social critics in France
What is Philosophes
500
Enlightenment thinker who believed in the Abolishment of torture.
What is Beccaria
500
Russian ruler who took steps to reform and modernize Russia.
What is Catherine the Great
500
This Enlightenment believed in a "Free Market" and "Laissez faire" economy.