Chapter 6 - Enlightenment and Renaissance

Relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture

New changes in scientific thought that challenged the ideas of ancient thinkers and the church:

Defender of freedom of speech and religion "I do not agree with a word you say..."

Heliocentric is when the earth is at the center of the universe.

The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun

Which of the following did Voltaire use to criticize the government and church?

Another term for the Enlightenment is the Age of...

Who was the first European to study the stars using a telescope?

Which of the following was not one of the five beliefs of the Philosophes?

Isaac Newton defined the

Madame Geoffrin helped publish the encyclopedia along with:

Locke professed that humans have the following rights EXCEPT

Mary Wollstonecraft fought for

Problem/Question --> Hypothesis --> Experiment --> Analyze Data are parts of the...

Hobbes described humans as naturally being

What was a new form of literature popularized during the Enlightenment?

The Middle Ages view that the earth was immovable and at the center of the universe

Russian ruler who enacted limited reforms but later restricted all rights of peasants

This Flemish physician dissected human corpses and published his observations

Who are the intellectuals of the Enlightenment?

The focus of Descartes and Bacon on experimentation rather than abstract theories is called:

Who was the first to argue that the sun was the center of the universe?

Who believed the earth was at the center of the universe?

A place where people would discuss the ideas of the Enlightenment.

Italian scientist who supported Copernicus' theory, was forced by the Catholic Church to recant

Simple, elegant style that characterized the arts in EU during late 1700s

Enlightenment writer committed to individual freedom. Said civ. corrupted natural goodness

Who was tried for heresy?

This Enlightenment scientist discovered that the path of planets followed an elliptical pattern

What is it when a society agrees to be governed and may give up rights in exchange for it?

The most influential and popular of the Parisian hostesses of salons was