Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment

Question 1

Why did Copernicus wait until just before his death to publish his findings about the universe?

Accepted Answer

He feared persecution because his ideas challenged tradition

Question 2

The Voltaire quote,"I may not agree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it" is supporting free speech

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

John Locke and Thomas Hobbes disagreed as to whether society had the right to overthrow bad rulers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The person who challenged the idea that people were born evil was?

Accepted Answer

Jean Jacques Rosseau

Question 5

The idea that scientific truth should not be accepted unless it can be observed and tested is..

Accepted Answer

Empiricism

Question 6

The ideas of using reason and free thinking to solve society's problems were major elements of...

Accepted Answer

Humansim

Question 7

What was the punishment given to Galileo by the Catholic Church for what they believed was heresy?

Accepted Answer

House Arrest Until His Death

Question 8

What invention by Galileo reinforced the ideas of Copernicus?

Accepted Answer

The Telescope

Question 9

Which is not one of the "strands" of the Enlightenment that helped pave the way for an explosion of ideas?

Accepted Answer

The Spanish Inquisition

Question 10

The 1700's witnessed the peak of the intellectual movement known as the...

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 11

Built massive libraries of scientific, astronomy and mathematical info during the Enlightenment period?

Accepted Answer

Islamic Scholars

Question 12

What types of government became heavily criticized by many Enlightenment thinkers?

Accepted Answer

Authoritarian and Theocratic

Question 13

Who introduced the idea that government be divided into different branches,each with the power to check the other?

Accepted Answer

Baron de Montesquieu

Question 14

The discovery(s) by Sir Issac Newton during the Enlightenment..

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 15

The Enlightenment thinker who is credited with creating the modern scientific method is..

Accepted Answer

Francis Bacon

Question 16

The founder of the heliocentric theory that the sun is the center of the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 17

What was the main subject that religious institutions and scholars clashed over during the Scientific Revolution?

Accepted Answer

The Universe

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