MWH Ch. 1 - 3 Quiz - The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

A society of fairness for all people

Monarch with total power

Believed girls should be educated to prepare them for society

Believed that a gov't should divide its power into branches to avoid tyranny

Believed in popular sovereignty in which a gov't is based on the consent of its people

Believed that a gov'ts responsibility is to provide and protect men's natural rights of life, liberty, and property

1500s-1600s ended the medieval world view and replaced it with our modern knowledge of physics, nature, biology, humans

Enlightenment thinkers believed that a set of _____ guided human behavior in politics and economics

Social hierarchy of Europe in the 1700s

An agreement by which people give up their natural state for an organized society

Suggested that an absolute monarchy should enter into a social contract with his citizens, providing with protection

Which group wanted to change traditional economics by implementing free trade?

Believed that supply and demand should drive the free market

Defended freedom of speech

Emphasizing reason over religious belief as the source of truth and understanding