Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Ideas and Theories
Ideas and Works
100

Galileo made this type of instrument to view into space.

What is a telescope?

100

This author believed people were good at their core.

Who is John Locke?

100

What object is believed to be the center of the universe in the heliocentric theory?

What is the Sun?

100

This author wrote the Leviathan.

Who is Hobbes?

200

Believed to have started the geocentric theory.

Who is Ptolemy?

200

This writer encouraged government is increase secularism and tolerance.

Who is Voltaire?

200

This English statesman advanced the Scientific Method.

Who is Francis Bacon?

200

Wrote the Wealth of Nations.

Who is Adam Smith?

300

What planet is believed to be the center of the universe in the geocentric theory?

What is Earth?

300

This author believed people at their core are evil.

Who is Hobbes?

300

This scientist started the heliocentric theory.

Who is Copernicus?

300

This writer had a hand in the inspiration of the U.S. government.

Who is Montesquieu?

400

This famous scientist challenged the church and was placed on house arrest.

Who is Galileo?

400

This writer helped inspire the French and American Revolution.

Who is Rousseau?

400

John Locke believed that the government protected our natural rights. What are these natural rights.

What is life, liberty, and property.

400

This author believed capitalism is the best form of government.

Who is Adam Smith?

500

What movement challenged the Roman Catholic Church and old ideas, while making people question the world around them.

What is the Scientific Revolution?

500

This movement inspired new ideas on government, applied reason to the human world, and inspired tolerance and revolution.

What is the Enlightenment?

500

This scientist believed planets moved in a circular elliptical orbit around the Sun.

Who is Kepler?

500

This mathematician stated, "I think, therefore I am."

Who is Rene Descartes?