People
Places and Events
Vocabulary
Concepts to Understand
Enlightenment
100
This person is known as the founder of the modern movement of women's rights.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
100
Copernicus was born in this country.
What is Poland?
100
Define investigate.
What is to find out more about something?
100
The theory where the Earth is in the center of the Universe.
What is Geocentric theory?
100
The country that became the major center of the Enlightenment.
What is France?
200
This is what Ptolemy believed in.
What is geo-centrism?
200
This early civilization developed different kinds of science to solve practical problems which inspired the scientific revolution.
What is Ancient Greece?
200
Define rationalism.
What is the idea that belief is the chief source of knowledge?
200
The theory where the sun was in the center of the universe.
What is the Heliocentric theory?
200
Women were treated like this during the Enlightenment.
What is unfairly?
300
This person was the greatest thinker of the enlightenment who wrote novels, plays, letters, and essays. He also disliked the Roman Catholic Church because they kept people from knowledge to obtain its power.
Who is Voltaire?
300
An agreement between rulers and people.
What is a social contract?
300
Define geo-centrism.
What is the idea that the Earth is at the center of the universe?
300
The people who created plays, essays, and made books describing the enlightenment.
Who are the Enlightenment thinkers?
300
Writers, journalists, teachers, and observers of society are this.
What are philosophes?
400
This person is viewed as the founder of modern rationalism and claimed that mathematics was the source of all scientific truth.
Who is Descartes?
400
this country is where Isaac Newton discovered laws of motion.
What is England?
400
Define Separation of Power.
What is power divided among branches in the government?
400
Some of these were not true and needed further explanation to find out the truth.
What is problems with Greek and scientific theories?
400
The time period where people had different ideas about religion, science, mathematics, and rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
Describe Thomas Hobbe's ideas
What is he believed in absolute power a.k.a. a monarchy was necessary?
500
This time period was the emergence of modern science during an early modern period.
What is the scientific revolution?
500
Describe natural law.
What is a law that applies to everyone and can be understood by reason?
500
An orderly way of collecting and analyzing evidence through a series of steps.
What is the Scientific Method?
500
Philosophes wanted to do this.
What is wanting to use reason to change society, attack superstitions, and disagree with church leaders?