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Newton (Sir Isaac)
Hobbes
Descartes and Locke
Enlightenment in France
Enlightenment in Action
100
Also known as the Age of Reason
What is the Enlightenment?
100
One of the adjectives Hobbes used to describe human beings in a "state of nature"
What is cruel, greedy, and selfish?
100
Descartes spent time writing in this European Country
What is Holland?
100
Wrote the Persian Leters
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
100
The primary writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A slow graceful dance with bowing
What is a minuet?
200
What Hobbes said that, without government, human life would be (name one word)
What is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?
200
Giving up some individual rights and freedoms to the government to have your human rights protected
What is the "social contract"?
200
Royal prison for the French King
What is a Bastille?
200
Known as the father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
300
God-given right to rule
What is "divine right"?
300
Hobbes was this, (someone who believes the worst will happen)
What is a pessimist?
300
The name of the Revolution in England in 1688
What is The Glorious Revolution?
300
"pen name" not author's real name
What is a pseudonym?
300
Wrote Poor Richard's Almanac. Said "Fish and Visitors smell after three days"
Who is Ben Franklin?
400
deadly disease that spreads rapidly
What is a plague?
400
Hobbes most famous book.
What is the Leviathan?
400
Locke said all people had the right to these three things
What is Life, Liberty, and Property?
400
A common man, who was a thinker who was put in jail for his writings about the French Elite
Who is Voltaire?
400
A person in government whose work is dealing with governments of other nations; also someone who is very good at dealing with others
What is a diplomat?
500
"town dweller" or middle class
What is bourgeoisie?
500
the only two desires Hobbes said people have
What are to "seek pleasure" and to "avoid pain"?
500
Descartes most famous quote
What is "I think, therefore I am" "cogito ergo sum"?
500
the name the French thinkers who were known as "lovers of wisdom" were given
What are philosophes?
500
Montesquieu's most famous contribution to the United States Constitution
What is the separation of powers?