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The Renaissance
The Reformation
Enlightenment Thinkers
The Enlightenment
Even More Enlightenment
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The word “Renaissance” means this:
What is "rebirth"?
100
The Reformation was a movement to reform what?
What is the Catholic Church?
100
This is the idea of using logical thinking, not superstition to answer questions.
What is reason?
100
The idea that people give up freedom to government so the government can protect their rights and have control over them.
What is a social contract?
100
The Enlightenment influenced this country the most.
What is the USA?
200
During the Renaissance, people began to be inspired by these two ancient societies.
What is ancient Greece and Rome?
200
This is a group or assembly that met at Worms, Germany.
What is a diet?
200

This philosopher believed that the will of the majority was more important than protecting individual freedoms.

Who is Rousseau?

200
Thinkers who applied the methods of science to better understand and improve society.
What are philosophers?
200
French Enlightenment thinker that believed in the separation of powers of the government.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
300
He was a Renaissance painter, sculptor and inventor; known best for painting The Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
He was a Reformation leader who wrote the 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
300
British Enlightenment thinker that promoted equality, religious freedom, and property rights. (Life, Liberty, and Property).
Who is John Locke?
300
The idea that there were rights that belonged to all humans from birth (life, liberty and property).
What are the natural rights of man?
300
John Locke believed people should do this if their government does not respect their freedoms and liberty.
What is be overthrown?
400
He was a Renaissance painter and sculptor that painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted Moses and La Pieta?
Who is Michelangelo?
400
This is what angered Martin Luther the most, known as "tickets to heaven".
What are indulgences?
400
The idea that each branch of government should check (limit) the power of the other two branches. Thus, power would be balanced (even) and no one branch would be too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
400
The idea that all people are born into nature understanding what is right and wrong.
What is natural law?
400
Montesquieu's ideas influenced this US document the most.
What is the Constitution?
500
He painted The School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
500
This spread the ideas of the Reformation faster.
What is the printing press?
500
John Locke's ideas were found to have influenced this document the most.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
500
When people as a whole rather than private individuals would own and operate the means of productions, farms, factories, railways, etc.
What is Socialism?
500

This Enlightenment thinker was known for championing religious tolerance, freedom of speech, and for the separation of church and state.

Who was Voltaire?