List one of three critical attributes of absolutism.
Answers vary.
100
Francis Bacon, Galileo, and Isaac Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on__________ rather than faith. (three acceptable answers)
What is experimentation, observation, scientific method.
100
According to Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, where does the power of the government originate?
Who is the governed or the people.
100
The document passed by the French National Assembly in 1789 which established a government based on popular sovereignty and guaranteed individual rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
100
The system of government that the United States Constitution established.
What is a federal or republican system.
200
The notion that kings represent God and have the power to rule in his stead.
What is divine right.
200
The organization in Europe that most influenced education prior to the Scientific Revolution.
What is the Catholic Church.
200
*Daily Double* "Everyone has the natural right to life, liberty, and property." What Enlightenment thinker created this idea?
Who is John Locke.
200
Name a major immediate result of the French Revolution.
Change of government, chaos, downfall of monarchy, or rise of Napoleon as dictator.
200
These people were members of the French Second Estate prior to the revolution.
What is the nobility.
300
*Daily Double* France's most prolific and powerful absolutist king.
What is Louis XIV
300
The process of observation and experimentation established during the Scientific Revolution. HINT: You probably have applied this process many times in science classes.
What is the scientific method.
300
French philosophers of the Enlightenment were known as__________. Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau are examples.
What are philosophes.
300
The major cause of the French Revolution and almost all revolutions. (two acceptable answers)
What is the failure of the government to meet the political and economic needs of its people.
300
The reason many American colonists rebelled against Britain.
Taxation without representation.
400
Absolute monarchs had complete control of their nation's economy, political system, and society. This concept is known as _________.
What is political sovereignty.
400
The theory that the the sun and planets rotate around the earth. This was the Church's teachings prior to the theories of Copernicus and Galileo.
What is geo-centrism.
400
The most powerful organization in Europe prior to the Enlightenment; believed that monarchs had divine right.
What is the Catholic Church.
400
What organization was formed in 1815 to reestablish monarchies throughout Europe? Hint: This organization was formed in response to the French Revolution and Napoleon.
Congress of Vienna
400
This Enlightenment thinker advocated for the rights of the accused and influenced the 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Who is Cesare Beccaria.
500
Absolute monarchs ruled without _____________, or limits on their power from other branches of government.
checks and balances
500
This scientist's support of the heliocentric theory brought him into direct conflict with the Catholic Church.
What is Galileo.
500
Author of "The Spirit of the Law", this philosophe emphasized the separation of powers in government to prevent one group from gaining too much control.
Who is Montesquieu
500
The French people supported _____________because they hoped he would provide stability after the chaos of the French Revolution.
Who is Napoleon.
500
The type of government in which people choose their representatives to make decision on their behalf.