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What is the name of the enlightenment thinker who influenced the checks and balances system?
Baron de Montesquieu
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What is the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, or unsatisfactory?
Reform
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Who came up with the Heliocentric Theory?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Who felt people could learn from their mistakes and govern themselves?
John Locke
100
Who wanted the Constitution passed with a Bill of Rights?
Antifederalists
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What city and country did the philosphes gather in?
Paris, France
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What said "I do not agree with a word you say, but will defend to the death for your right to say it"?
Voltaire
200
Who used math to explain the laws of gravity?
Isaac Newton
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Who said "Power should be a check of power"?
Baron de Montesquieu
200
What did Napoleon pass that created a fair tax system?
Napoleonic Code
300
What two enlightenment thinkers wrote a Social Contract?
Hobbes and Rousseau
300
What did Cesare Beccaria want to reform?
Judicial Branch
300
What is a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems?
Enlightenment
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What type of government would Thomas Hobbes want?
Absolute Monarchy
300
Where did Touissain L'Overture lead a successful slave revolt?
Haiti
400
What is an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed?
Revolution
400
Who came up with the Geocentric Theory?
Aristotle
400
Who felt people were naturally wicked and selfish and could not learn from their mistakes and needed a strong ruler to govern them?
Thomas Hobbes
400
What was the time period called that Maximilien Robespierre ruled with the guillotine?
Reign of Terror
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What is Portugal's largest colony?
Brazil
500
What group used the guillotine to strike fear into those who did not want radical change during the French Revolution?
Jacobins
500
What is a new way of thinking about the natural world?
Scientific Revolution
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What type of writing did Voltaire use to attack the government and people he disagreed with?
Satire
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Who forced the National Assembly to vote him as First Consul?
Napoleon Bonaparte
500
What are Spaniards born in Latin America called?
Creoles