He was the thinker who believed in natural rights and that the government’s power comes from the people.
Who is John Locke?
100
This term is used when a ruler claims that their power comes from god.
What is divine right?
100
This is when each branch of government keeps the others from gaining too much power.
What are checks and balances?
100
She was an early feminist who believed education was highly important.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
100
This religion is based on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
200
This person was a Russian ruler who adopted some Enlightenment ideas.
Who is Catherine the Great?
200
In this type of government, laws limit a king or queen’s power.
What is a constitutional (limited) monarchy?
200
This term refers to monarchs who adopted some ideas from the Enlightenment.
What is enlightened despot?
200
Name two contributions from the Enlightenment on the United States.
[Answers will vary]
200
This was NASA’s big news this weekend (NOT the lunar eclipse).
What is the discovery of liquid water on Mars?
300
He was the French absolute monarch who built the palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?
300
This was the title used for Russian absolute rulers.
What is czar?
300
The Scientific Revolution helped lead to the Enlightenment. This is the term for the theory that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the solar system.
What is heliocentric?
300
This was the new capital of Russia that the ruler ordered the serfs to build him.
What is St. Petersburg?
300
This was the social structure of India for thousands of years.
What is the caste system?
400
He came up with the idea of the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
400
This one-world term was Peter the Great’s goal with all of his reforms.
What is westernization?
400
This is the term used for thinkers during the Enlightenment, like Rousseau or Voltaire.
What is a philosophe?
400
Name three of the five core beliefs of the Enlightenment.
Reason, Nature, Happiness, Progress, Liberty
400
John Boehner is planning on stepping down from this government position in late October.
What is Speaker of the House?
500
He was the Puritan leader in the fight against Charles I who later became the dictator of England.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
500
These were the two sides during the English Civil War.
Who were the Roundheads and the Royalists/Cavaliers?
500
This is where Enlightenment thinkers would meet to discuss their ideas.
What are salons?
500
This was the special term for French Protestants who fought against the Catholics.