🔬 Scientific Revolution
He developed the heliocentric theory.
Who is Copernicus?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote about separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This root vegetable improved peasant nutrition.
What is the potato?
This artistic style was grand and dramatic often with religious themes, favored by absolutists.
What is Baroque?
Monarchs who embraced Enlightenment ideas without giving up power are called this. Another name for enlightened absolutists.
What are enlightened despots?
This scientist formulated the law of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
He advocated for freedom of speech and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
This innovation planted seeds in rows at proper depth.
What is the seed drill?
BONUS (200): Name the inventor.
This artistic style embraced simplicity and classical themes.
What is Neoclassicism?
This Prussian ruler promoted education and legal reform.
Who is Frederick the Great?
This astronomer’s telescope helped prove heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo?
This economist promoted laissez-faire capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
BONUS (200): Name his most famous work.
This tool improved efficiency in breaking and turning soil.
What is the cast iron plow?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This lighter, more playful style of art was popular in aristocratic salons.
What is Rococo?
This Austrian ruler abolished serfdom and promoted tolerance.
Who is Joseph II?
He promoted inductive reasoning and observation.
Who is Francis Bacon?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This social contract theorist believed in popular sovereignty and the general will.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This farming system replaced the fallow field with nitrogen-restoring crops.
What is the four-field system (crop rotation)?
This classical composer created symphonies and operas during the Enlightenment.
Who is Mozart?
This Russian monarch codified laws but crushed rebellions.
Who is Catherine the Great?
He emphasized deductive reasoning.
Who is René Descartes?
BONUS (100): What was his most famous quote?
BONUS (500): Say it in Latin.
He compiled Enlightenment knowledge in the Encyclopédie.
Who is Denis Diderot?
This movement privatized common lands.
What is the Enclosure Movement?
This was the first modern novel in English literature.
What is Robinson Crusoe?
This philosophical idea, embraced by many enlightened monarchs, suggested that a ruler’s authority is derived from their ability to promote the well-being of their people through reason, reforms, and rational governance.
What is the social contract?