Famous Quotes
"I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
This Absolute Monarch of France built the Palace at Versailles
Louis XIV
This Physicist is most famous for his theory on gravity. Anyone want an apple?
The Sun King
Louis XIV
Fear of the sun is known as __________
Heliophobia
The Russian word for king (from the word Caesar)
Czar or Tsar
"...No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes
This monarch emphasized military power in Prussia
Frederick the Great
This Italian astronomer and physicist was most known for his telescopic observations and disputes with the catholic church. GG.
This "roundhead" was responsible for briefly ending the English Monarchy when he executed Charles I and it hated by the Irish for atrocities committed during the English civil war.
The revolutionary war in this country was inspired by the enlightenment thinkers in Europe
USA
Document signed by Charles I that limited the power of kings
Petition of right
“I may not agree with a word you have to say but I will fight to my death for your right to say it.”
Voltaire
This Spanish King sent the Spanish Armada to England
Philip II
German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer who is best known for his three laws of planetary motion, which laid the foundation for classical celestial mechanics and helped to establish the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Johannes Kepler
A process of stating a problem, a hypothesis, a research process, and conclusion is known as
Scientific method
What did John Locke and Thomas Jefferson believe the people should do if their government did not protect their natural rights?
Overthrow their gov
Thomas Hobbes
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains"
Roussaeu
This English Queen ruled for 45 year and solidified England as a Protestant nation
Elizabeth I
Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who is best known for formulating a heliocentric model of the solar system
Copernicus
They became King and Queen of England under the new constitutional monarchy as a result of the bloodless revolution.
William and Mary
John Locke believed people weren't born good or evil but instead were born as a "blank slate" that needed to be taught right and wrong. Another word for "blank slate" is:
People who can't properly digest gluten have this disease
Celiac disease
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
This Russian King was almost 2 meters tall
Peter the Great
Danish nobleman and astronomer known for his meticulous and comprehensive astronomical observations, particularly of the positions of celestial bodies.
Tycho Brahe
Divine Right said power was given to kings by...
God
Heliocentric theory states that the ______ revolves around the ________
Earth / Sun
The idea that government should have little or no involvement in business and economics in a country
Laissez Faire