Newton
The attractive force existing between any two objects that have mass.
What is gravitation?
The phrase summing up Descartes' belief about man's existence and ability to reason.
What is "I think, therefore, I am."
Hobbes believed government should be all-powerful, like this Biblical sea monster.
What is Leviathan?
These natural rights are the government's duty to preserve for the citizens.
What is life, liberty, and property?
He was a pessimist about human nature and believed cruel, greedy, selfish mankind needs a strong government for the peace and safety of the population.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This force pulls all objects to earth.
What is gravity?
The study about ideas about knowledge, life, and truth; the love of wisdom.
What is philosphy?
The original lawmaking branch of the English government that is made up of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
What is Parliament?
Disloyalty to a country by helping an enemy.
What is treason?
This man believed that if scientists could improve their knowledge and understanding of the world, it would give people power to make better lives.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
A deadly disease spread throughout an area or region.
What is an epidemic?
In the 1600's, new ideas could be explored and expressed freely in this Protestant European country.
"What is Holland?"
An agreement in which society agrees to give up some of its freedoms in exchange for protection by the government.
What is a social contract?
Favoring large or widespread changes.
What is radical?
He said, "I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The belief that a king or queen's throne is granted by God and rebelling against the monarchy is a sin.
What is the "divine right of kings?"
Because of his insistence on reason, Descartes is remembered as this.
This king, who believed in the divine right of kings, was tried, convicted, and executed for not granting powers to Parliament to write and pass laws.
"Who is King Charles I?"
A series of laws that protect the liberties and freedoms of citizens.
A government in which the king or queen has the unchecked authority to do whatever they want without restrictions.
What is absolute monarchy?
A type of advanced mathematics which focuses on the study of change.
What is calculus?
This type of soldier joins the army, not to fight, but for travel and adventure.
What is a "soldier of fortune?"
A type of governing system in which people are not allowed personal freedoms, but must absolutely obey the government.
What is authoritarian?
Rights that all people are born with that cannot be taken away by the government.
What are natural rights?
The Enlightenment was influenced by men who specialized in specific academic subjects called this.
What are scholars?