Key Ideas
Also known as "Age of Reason."
What is the Enlightenment?
Revolution that influenced the Enlightenment.
Known for saying, "“I may not agree with a word you have to say but I will fight to my death for your right to say it."
Process of stating a problem, a hypothesis, a research process, and a conclusion.
What is the Scientific Method?
Known for building the Palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?
Philosophe who defended freedom of speech.
Who is Voltaire?
Revolution that occurred as a result of Enlightenment ideas.
What is the American Revolution and/or the French Revolution?
Known for saying “L’etat, c’est moi” which translates to I am the state.
Who is Louis XIV?
Theory that the sun is center of the universe.
What is heliocentric theory?
Known for his six marriages and for breaking away from the Catholic Church.
Who is Henry VIII?
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
System of government characterized by centralization of power and rule by divine right.
What are absolute monarchies?
Known for saying, “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
Who is Mary Woolestonecraft?
Known for inventing calculus and discovering the law of gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Known for moved the capital city of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg to be closer to Western Europe.
Who is Peter the Great?
Wrote "The Two Treatises on Government", and believed that the people are rational and can govern themselves.
Who is John Locke?
Enlightenment occurred during this century.
What is the eighteenth century?
Known for saying, “All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty, and property."
Who is John Locke?
Known for inventing the telescope and seeing the landscape of the moon in detail.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Known for being a Spanish king who sent the Spanish Armada to England.
Who is Phillip II?
John Locke and Thomas Jefferson believed people should do this if their government did not protect their natural rights.
What is overthrow the government?
Country that can best argue that it was born out of rationalist thought in the Enlightenment Era.
What is the United States?
Known for saying, “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Who is Montesquieu?
Reason why the Catholic Church opposed the theories the Scientific Revolution.
What is they contradicted traditional Church teachings?
English Queen that ruled for 45 years and solidified England as a Protestant nation.
Who is Elizabeth I?