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A French philosopher who complied a great expansion of human knowledge into an encyclopedia.

Who is Diderot

100

John Locke's three natural rights.

What is Life, Liberty and Property.

100

Who dissected bodies of executed criminals for science?

What is Andreas Vesalius 

100

A new way of thinking about the natural world that challenged traditional views and instead relied upon experimentation

What is the Scientific Revolution

100

An Enlightenment thinker who is known for the Separation of Powers

Who is Baron Montesquieu 

200

A philosopher that argued for equal rights for women. Wrote a book called the vindication of the rights of women.

Who was Mary Wollstonecraft.

200

A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems?

What is Enlightenment 

200
The founder of modern chemistry who challenged Aristotle's Physical world in The Sceptical chemist as well as came up with a law that explains how volume, temperature, and pressure of a gas affect each other. 

Who is Robert Boyle

200

Three discoveries that Galileo made? 

What is Craters on moon, sunspots of Saturn, moons of Jupiter, and Milky Way made up of Stars

200

An Enlightenment thinker whose ideas were religious freedom and freedom of thought and expression.

What is Voltaire

300
English scholar and philosopher born in 1588; believed in monarchy; people are naturally selfish and quick to fight
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
A government that is ruled by one royal leaderonly, usually from birth, and there are no elections
What is a Monarchy?
300

Was known for using experimentation in regards to the scientific method

Who is Francis Bacon

300

This old view theory that was created by Aristotle where the Earth was the Center of the Universe.

What is Geocentric Theory?

300

An Enlightenment thinker/French philosopher who believed that the government should work for common good and that society is corrupt.

What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau

400

A Prussian leader who was influenced by Voltaire who introduced four reforms:

1. Elementary Education for all children

2. Abolished torture

3. Supports most forms of religious tolerance

4. Reduced Censorship

Who was Frederick II

400
Is a government where the people choose their leaders through an election.
What is a Democracy?
400

A german philosopher who developed Calculus the same time as Issac Newton

What is Gottfried von Leibniz

400

A Latin word for God that Newton believed that God was the creator of this orderly universe where the clockmaker who sets everything in motion.

What is Deism

400

A Scottish economicist who was a strong believer in in laissez-faire economics with no government regulation.

What is Adam Smith.

500

He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa.

Who is John Locke?

500
In his view view the sovereign power of a commonwealth (England's power over its colonies) is absolute and not subject to the laws of its citizens.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
500

The pope who declared that the church had wrongfully condemned Gaileo.

What is Pope John Paul II

500
Agreement that was formed to be sure all people could enjoy the three natural rights
What is Social Contract?
500

What was Nicolaus Copernicus book that was not published until his later years of life due knowing that the church would oppose his work

What is On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres