IDEAS
TIME LINE
SOCIETY
QUOTES
OTHER
100
Most Enlightened thinkers of the 18th century could be found in which European city?
Paris
100
Before the Modern period we have a time period in western history known as?
Medieval (Middle Ages)
100
Restricting access to ideas and information is known as?
Censorship
100
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
100
He was a brilliant composer that died at the age of 35 and is considered today by many to have been the greatest composer in History.
Mozart
200
Neoclassical
200
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, etc. were all part of an intellectual movement that came before the Enlightenment. What was this movement called?
The Scientific Revolution
200
The philosophes gathered to talk and exchange ideas in places known as?
Salons
200
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
Thomas Hobbes
200
Who is the man?
Galileo Galilei
300
This form of writing is now known as?
Novel
300
The Ptolemaic system belongs to which period in western history?
Ancient
300
Rococo
300
"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics."
Galileo Galilei
300
Which philosophe is behind this idea?
Montesquieu
400
Who wrote this book?
Thomas Hobbes
400
What is the name given to the kings and queens who used their power to change society using the ideas of the philosophes?
Enlightened despots
400
Voltaire
400
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Newton
400
What is the title of this book?
Leviathan
500
Which philosophe believed that the power of government should be limited and if the government violates people’s freedom then the people have the right to overthrow that government?
John Locke
500
What year marks the beginning of the Modern period?
1492
500
Who wrote Persian Letters?
Montesquieu
500
"Don't use the elevator!"
Mr. Tena
500
What year marks the fall of the Roman empire and the beginning of the Medieval period?
476 A.D.