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This Enlightenment thinker wrote Leviathan and believed people were naturally wicked.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This philosopher wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
A political and moral philosophy theory that explains the origin of governments and the relationship between citizens and governments.
What is the social contract?
Developed the heliocentric system (the Sun is at the center of the universe, with all the planets and stars revolving around it in circular orbits).
Who is Copernicus?
This person supported freedom of speech and religious toleration.
Who is Voltaire?
The Enlightenment period was against this type of government.
What is absolute monarchy?
This philosopher wrote the book, Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
A political concept that refers to a dominant power or supreme authority.
What is Sovereignty?
The first to use a telescope to study the stars (1610).
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Came up with the idea of dividing government power between separate branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
The US government was created using this principle of power distribution.
What is Montesquieu's theory that government should be divided into separate branches.
This philosopher wrote the book, The Social Contract.
Who is Rousseau?
A set of rules that protected individual rights from infringement by other individuals, states, or political orders.
What is natural law?
Wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and developed calculus.
Who is Issac Newton?
French writer of The Social Contract
Who is Rousseau?
This English philosopher wrote Two Treatises on Government.
Who is John Locke?
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering (French term).
What is laissez-faire?
Developed precise thermometers filled with mercury to measure temperature
Who is Fahrenheit?
This man insisted that man is born with three inherent rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
The people have the right to overthrow the government if these three rights are not protected.
What is life, liberty, and property?
This French philosopher wrote On the Spirit of Laws.
Who is Montesquieu?
A style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles.
What is baroque?
Proved that lightning and electricity are identical, and suggested that buildings could be protected by lightning conductors
Who is Benjamin Franklin?