This theory held that the Sun, planets, and stars revolved around the center of the universe, which would be the Earth.
What is the heliocentric theory?
100
This style of music has a simple, more elegant style and was a throwback to ancient Greece/Rome.
What is neoclassical?
100
This man said that people are born free and with natural rights; life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
100
This war between England and France was the catalyst for England's increasing taxes on the American colonists.
What is the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)?
100
This is the theory that the government does not give us certain rights, but we are born with them.
What is natural rights?
200
This person improved upon an earlier version of a telescope and improved it greatly; he went on to discover many celestial bodies in our solar system and ended his life on house arrest.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
200
This style of art and music is considered flashy, impressive, and powerful; it was a response to the Reformation.
What is baroque?
200
This man said that people are inherently bad, selfish, and corrupt; a strong government is needed to keep order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
This Act (tax) prompted the colonists to dress up as Native Americans and dump cargo in the harbor of Boston.
What is the Tea Act?
200
This theory said that the people gives the government its power and the government needs to protect our rights; if they fail to do so...rebel!
What is the social contract?
300
This is the logical procedure for gathering information where experimentation and observation test theories.
What is the Scientific Method?
300
This German music composer became deaf at the age of 44.
Who is Beethoven?
300
This man said that the government's power can be checked by separating the power into three branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
300
This Act closed the port of Boston, increased British troop strength around Boston, shut down Boston's town meetings, and allowed troops to be quartered in unoccupied spaces in Massachusetts.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
This says that the government should be separated into three branches so that its power can be held back.
What is separation of powers?
400
This is the study of the natural world that began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
This music composer was a child prodigy with over 600 works completed in his lifetime.
Who is Mozart?
400
This man took the Enlightenment thinking and applied it to Economics to develop capitalism; it will become the economic system of the United States in the future.
Who is Adam Smith?
400
This is the town where colonists met the British and where the first shots were fired in the American Revolution.
What is Lexington?
400
This theory states that the government can be able to check its own power so that one branch will not get too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
500
This word means "law of the stars".
What is astronomy?
500
This German composer used an organ and harpsichord for an innovative/dramatic effect; one song played in class sounded like an opening to a horror movie.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
500
This man was a champion for tolerance, reason, freedom of religion and speech.
Who is Voltaire?
500
This slogan was the whole reason the American colonists rebelled against Britain in the first place.
(hint: four words... "No _____ _____ ______"
What is "No taxation without representation"
500
This man used his knowledge of Locke to create one of the most famous documents in the world; this document outlined the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against England.