Absolute Monarchs
Known for building the Palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?
Known for inventing the telescope and seeing the landscape of the moon in detail.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Country that can best argue that it was born out of rationalist thought in the Enlightenment Era.
Freedom that the quotation “I may not agree with a word you have to say but I will fight to my death for your right to say it" symbolizes.
Leader of the Roundheads, sought to overthrow the monarchy in the English Civil War.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
Known for his six marriages and for breaking away from the Catholic Church.
Who is Henry VIII?
Known for inventing calculus and discovering the law of gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Enlightenment took influence from this other Revolution.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Known for saying “L’etat, c’est moi” which translates to I am the state.
Who is Louis XIV?
Reason why the Catholic Church opposed the theories the Scientific Revolution.
What is they contradicted traditional Church teachings?
Known for moved the capital city of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg to be closer to Western Europe.
Who is Peter the Great?
Theory that the sun is center of the universe.
Wrote "The Two Treatises on Government", and believed that the people are rational and can govern themselves.
Who is John Locke?
Known for saying, “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
Who is Mary Woolestonecraft?
Monarch that took power as a result of the Glorious Revolution.
Who are William and Mary?
Known for being a Spanish king who sent the Spanish Armada to England.
Who is Phillip II?
Process of stating a problem, a hypothesis, a research process, and a conclusion.
What is the Scientific Method?
Philosophe who defended freedom of speech.
Who is Voltaire?
Known for saying, “All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty, and property."
Who is John Locke?
System of government characterized by centralization of power and rule by divine right.
What are absolute monarchies?
Known for being an absolute monarch who emphasized military power in Prussia.
Who is Frederick the Great?
Known for studying anatomy and the circulation of blood.
Who is William Harvey?
John Locke and Thomas Jefferson believed people should do this if their government did not protect their natural rights.
What is overthrow the government?
Known for saying, “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Who is Montesquieu?
Document created by English parliament that placed clear limits on royal power.
What is the 1689 English Bill of Rights?