This person wrote the Wealth of Nations and believed in a free market
Who is Adam Smith
100
Believed that human minds begin as a "tabula rasa" or "blank slate". Known as the father of liberalism.
Who is John Locke
100
Created the heliocentric model (Sun is at the center of our solar system)
Who is Copernicus
100
What is the name of the practice of worshipping shrines, which was challenged by buddhist teachings?
What is Shinto
100
How many voyages did Captain Cook make?
Three
200
Author of Candide (also despised all organized religion and believed that human society should and could be improved)
Who is Voltaire
200
Believed that man's true nature is to obtain power and save ourselves and that the only successful type of government is a sovereign governing body
Who is Thomas Hobbes
200
Corrected the Copernican model using mathematics
Who is Kepler
200
How did the Ming Dynasty attempt to control the spread of orally passed stories and traditions?
By appointing village elders
200
What was the devshirme?
The method used by the Ottoman Empire to indoctrinate young boys from conquered regions and educate them with Islamic influence. These boys would then serve as intermediates between the Ottomans and their respective countries.
300
"I think therefore I am"
Who is Descartes
300
Feminist who once said "I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves”
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft
300
Tried to convince the Catholic church not to ban the Copernican theory
Who is Galileo
300
Which Mughal emperor rejected a gift of maps of the world?
Aurangzeb
300
Which Mughal ruler allowed both commoners and nobles to openly converse with him in court?
Akbar
400
"Man is born inherently good but is corrupted slowly through civilization and society
Who is Rousseau
400
Best known for his theory on separation of powers within a governing body
Who is Montesquieu
400
Father of the scientific method
Who is Sir Francis Bacon
400
What group funded Captain Cook's voyages?
The Royal Society
400
Why did Honda Tokiashi want to learn geography and astronomy?
To help sea trade
500
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction" (also invented the mechanical calculator)
Who is Pascal
500
Most important contribution was his work on a massive Encyclopedia with 2,300 articles in 28 volumes
Who is Diderot
500
Wrote Principia which described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion
Who is Newton
500
Who was Carollas Linnaeus and what is he known for?
The man who accompanied Captain Cook, known as the father of modern taxonomy.