Scientific Revolution
This scientist used math to prove gravity and created laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
He believed people needed a strong ruler to maintain order.
Who is Hobbes?
A form of government where a ruler holds total power.
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
This group wanted to purify the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
The war that left Britain in debt and led to new colonial taxes.
What is the French and Indian War.
This theory placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
This thinker used satire to defend freedom of speech and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
The belief that a monarch’s authority comes from God
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
The English king whose abuse of power caused civil war.
Who is Charles I?
The document written in 1776 declaring independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Polish scientist who proposed the heliocentric theory.
Who is Copernicus?
This thinker argued that government power comes from the consent of the governed and that people have Natural Rights.
Who is Locke?
The French king who built the Palace of Versailles.
Who is King Louis XIV?
The military leader who defeated Charles I.
Who is Oliver Chromwell?
The Enlightenment thinker whose ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This invention helped spread new scientific ideas quickly across Europe.
He believed power should be divided among branches of government.
Who is Montesquieu?
The Russian ruler who forced Westernization and built St. Petersburg
Who is Peter the Great?
The event where William and Mary took the throne without a fight.
The main European country that gave military and financial support to the colonies.
What is France?
This way of thinking relied on observation, experimentation, and reason.
What is the Scientific Method?
He believed the people should rule and wrote The Social Contract.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
One reason absolutism grew in Europe during the 1600s
Decline of feudalism / rise of cities / growth of national kingdoms / middle-class support
This document limited the monarch’s power and protected free speech in England?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The treaty that officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?