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This ancient Greek said the Earth was the center of the universe
Who is Ptolemy?
100
Means the Earth is the center of the universe.
What is geocentric ?
100
John Locke's three natural rights.
What are "life, liberty, and property" ?
100
the 3 types of power must be separated to protect people's rights
What is separation of powers?
100
complete and total power held by the king or queen
What is absolute power ?
200
This mathematician figured out the Sun is in the center of the solar system
Who is Copernicus?
200
Means the Sun is the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric?
200
The founder of economics
Who is Adam Smith ?
200
God created the universe like a clock and then set it free.
What is deism ?
200
the king has a God given right to rule
What is the divine right of kings ?
300
Discovered the law of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton ?
300
The reason the Catholic Church liked the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe.
What is Catholic belief, the Bible and God's special creatures?
300
Founder of the women's rights movement.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
"Let the people do what they want" or buy and sell what they want
What is laissez-faire ?
300
not absolute power, when a king holds power but is checked by a Parliament and a Bill of Rights
What is a limited monarchy ?
400
Proved through the 1st telescopic observations of the Moon, Sun, and the planets, that the Sun was the center of the universe
Who is Galileo?
400
Biology, chemistry, physics.
What are the hard sciences ?
400
Identified the three types of power. Executive, legislative, and judicial.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
400
The reason women are the equal of men.
What is because they can think for themselves (reason)?
400
The revolution where Englishmen got their rights in 1688/1689.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
500
Isaac Newton was the first to discover this.
What is a universal physical law ?
500
The ancients thought the moon, planets, and stars were just these ...
What are orbs of light?
500
The most famous deist.
Who is Voltaire?
500
John Locke's social contract
What is "if the government doesn't protect people's rights, people have a right to revolt and make a new government" ?
500
What the U.S. Constitution eliminated with citizenship and equality before the law.
What is the medieval/social hierarchy ? (nobility, clergy, commoners)