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100
His social contract theory said that people gave up rights to a strong leader in exchange for law and order
Who is Hobbes?
100
The name of Copernicus' theory that the planets orbit the sun.
What is heliocentric?
100
This new form of writing emerged during the Enlightenment.
What is the novel?
100
Monarchs who embraced some Enlightenment ideas are called this.
What are absolute despots?
100
Enlightenment ideas led to a revolution in this country and freedom from Britain.
What is the United States?
200
She was an advocate of women's rights, especially when it came to education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
200
This approach to gathering and testing ideas emerged during the Scientific Revolution.
What is the scientific method?
200
Women in Paris hosted these events to spread enlightenment ideas.
What are salons?
200
She believed in an end to serfdom until a revolt in her country of Russia.
Who is Catherine the Great?
200
Our government still runs on this idea, which includes the concept of checks and balances.
What is separation of powers?
300
He was committed to the idea of individual freedom and direct democracy.
Who is Rousseau?
300
A vaccine for this disease emerged during the Scientific Revolution.
What is smallpox?
300
This is the style of art from the late 17th century.
What is neoclassical?
300
These two important American documents were based on Enlightenment ideas.
What are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
300
Today, we still believe in the importance of this in society thanks to the philisophes.
What is the individual?
400
He believed that people were born with three natural rights—life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
400
This man developed analytical geometry.
Who is Descartes?
400
Diederot had scholars contribute information for this.
What is the encyclopedia?
400
He argued for the abolishment of torture.
Who is Beccaria?
400
We still listen to this type of music today. It became popular during the enlightenment.
What is classical music?
500
This philosophe promoted Enlightenment ideas through satire targeting government and church leaders.
Who is Voltaire?
500
Galileo got in trouble with this group for promoting the idea that the planets moved around the sun.
What is the Catholic Church?
500
Newspapers and pamphlets spread Enlightenment ideas to members of this group.
What is the (literate) middle class?
500
These five concepts were the core of the philisophes' beliefs.
What are reason, nature, happiness, progress, and liberty?
500
Without the scientific revolution, we wouldn't have either version of this device used in meteorology.
What is the thermometer?