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deism
What is the religious philosophy based on reason and natural law
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Copernicus
Who proposed that the sun was the center of the universe in 1492?
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Thomas Hobbes
Who argued that the best form of government was an absolute monarchy?
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Voltaire
Who was credited with the saying, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?
100
Catholic Church
What organization did not approve of the Enlightenment Ideals?
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natural law
What is the universal moral law that Enlightenment thinkers believed cold be understood through reason?
200
Galileo
Who built his own telescope and later discovered the law of inertia?
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William Penn
Who was the founder of an American Quaker colony who advocated for an assembly of nations committed to world peace?
200
Mary Wollstonecraft
Who favored equal education for women and men?
200
Thomas Jefferson
Who based much of the Declaration of Independence on John Locke's ideas?
300
classicism
What is the artistic movement that adopted Greek and Roman ideals?
300
Francis Bacon
Who is given credit for helping to develop the scientific method?
300
John Locke
Who believed all people have the rights to life, liberty, and property?
300
Diderot
Who was the editor of the Encyclopedie?
300
Three Branches of Government
What did Montesquieu believe was the best way to divide government power?
400
enlightened despot
What is a monarch called who attempted to practice political ideas of the Enlightenment?
400
Joseph Priestly
Who is the English Chemist who discovered the existence of oxygen?
400
Baron de Montesquieu
Who believed power should be divided between the three branches of government?
400
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who believed the right to rule rested with the people?
400
Calculus
What system of mathematics was developed by Isaac Newton?
500
metaphysics
What is the aspect of philosophy that deals with universal, spiritual, and eternal questions?
500
Isaac Newton
Whose theories about the law of gravity were published in Principia?
500
Hugo Grotius
Who called for an international code based on natural law?
500
Immanuel Kant
Who believed that reason could not be applied to religion?
500
Frederick II
Who was an Enlightened Despot that had Voltaire come to his court in Prussia?
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