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The 'Father of the English Essay' & believer in empiricism died from stuffing a chicken w/ snow
Francis Bacon
Walter Cronkite
William Shakespeare (again)
Walter Raleigh
2
Galileo built a telescope and saw mountains on the moon, sun spots, and...
earthly moon spots
Olympus Mons
Bathsheba in the moonlight
Jupiter's moons
3
Tycho Brahe's apprentice who discovered mathematical regularity in planetary motion:
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Obiwan Kenobee
Tycho Brahe, Jr.
4
The idea that the earth (and the other planets) travel around the sun is known as:
Apollonia
deism
geocentricism
heliocentricism
5
For Hobbes the state's power prevented lives that were poor, nasty, brutish and short, and...
stripped of all natural rights
lacking in table manners
featured constant war of all against all
nasty and poor and brutish
6
Objects in the sky obey the sames laws as objects on earth, argued Deist...
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Leonardo Fibonacci
Galileo Galilei
7
John Locke viewed the state of nature as peaceful, because of human...
desire for procreation
ineptitude
inertia (laziness) and hedonism
reason
8
Louis XIV, an absolutist, saw France's good as linked to his own good; this German was the same:
Otto von Bismarck
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
Louis XIV, Jr.
9
Using rational, scientific thought processes, who said checks & balances were needed to stop...
Madmen? Jacques Roux
tyrants? Baron C. de Montesquieu
in the name of love? The Supremes
the noble savage? Rousseau
10
The French founders of the scientific study of the economy went by the name...
Plutocrats
Physiocrats
Philosophes
the Nobles of the Sword
11
England tried to pay for the Seven Years War by...
driving the Canadiens out of British North America
selling Canada to the USA
auctioning off the crown jewels
raising taxes, including in the American colonies
12
French satirist Voltaire attacked mindless positivity, as well as the military and...
German unification
Swedish meatballs
the church
earthquakes
13
For Rousseau the community's larger interest, not necessarily the interest of the majority was:
the source of all natural rights
the General Will
laissez-faire
why hypothetical democracies would never exist
14
In Descartes' quest for a systematic approach to knowledge & discovery, he tried for certainty
in nature as in math
of the metaphysical nature
but landed in the stars
beyond purely human reasoning
15
Locke's contract theory claimed that government was established for the common good...
of the wealthy
and so the state had all power
and that it had limited powers
and a return to the state of nature
16
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that people were not bad, but had a 'natural...
pity'
desire for elevated consciousness'
passivity'
woman'
17
Versailles was the product of French wealth and the will of the ultimate absolutist:
Frederick the Great
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
Catherine the Great
18
17th century classicism was the cultural admiration for ancient Greece...
and certainly not modern Greece
and the Roman Empire
and Chinese philosophy
and heroic thanes of the Norse
19
John Locke believed that people had a right to revolution; this was tried out in...
the American Revolution
the state of nature
the English Civil War
Kramer vs. Kramer
20
Louis XIV promoted French manufacture of glass, tapestries, and silk; he was a...
lazy, lazy man
man who wanted to Make France Great Again
mercantilist
force of nature
21
European religious wars resulted in a policy of non-interference in other states' internal woes:
Peace of Westphalia
Treaty of Utrecht
the Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Versailles
22
For Locke government was established to preserve humanity's natural rights of life, liberty...
security
and the pursuit of happiness
and leviathan
property
23
The famous Scottish promoter of laissez-faire was...
Robert the Bruce
The Young Pretender
Adam Smith
Robert Owen
24
Absolutism was a challenge to feudalism as kings sought to nationalize language, religion, &...
educational bureaucracies
centralize power
reduce the size of their armies
promote traditional peasant cultural practices
25
Striving to make our world an earthly paradise is an idea whose roots are called:
Communism
Romanticism
Christian humanism
Objectivism/ Selfishism
26
Empiricism is the belief one should not rely on the ancient masters, but find knowledge by...
trusting the writers of the Roman Empire
using only demonstrably true evidence
experimentation
relying on the Force
27
The British in the 1770s were running India through the East India Co., & northern Canada...
through the Hudson Bay Co.
through the Company of Voyageurs, inc.
through Rupert's Bros.
like the Ringley Bros.
28
One spur toward modern scientific thought came from the systematization of navigation by:
Christopher Columbus
the English
the Portuguese
Marco Polo
29
The 1770 shooting of several Americans by British troops came to be called...
the Sugar Hill Gang
the Boston Massacre
the Powderkeg of America
Bloody Sunday
30
This Frenchman said, 'Cogito ergo sum' as he tried to establish what exists:
Voltaire
Charles Martel
Rene Descartes
Louis XIV
31
Frederick the Great was king of...
Russia
Prussian
Western Cornwall
Outer Moldavia
32
Your country is rich, by mercantilist standards, if you...
have a vibrant arts scene
you let the markets reward who they will
have many rich merchants
have lots of gold bullion
33
Bacon believed in making multiple observations, then generalizing to formulate laws, a.k.a.:
deduction
reduction
induction
galvanism
34
English satirist Jonathan Swift wrote
Gulliver's Travels
and...
Gulliver at Home
'A Modest Proposal'
Candide
'A Man's a Man for a' That'
35
16th c Danish man who spent years making detailed night sky observations (& he saw a supernova)
Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
Hamlet
Leif Erickson
36
If gravity and math mean God does not have to guide everything, Newton thought He was like a...
flying spaghetti monster
ghost in the machine
clock-maker
demented anti-Christ
37
Moderns didn't admire Roman gladiators; they admired the Empire's fixed standards...
stability and order
in toga colouration
in the realm of drama
in the field of mathematics
38
For Hobbes equality before the state was a given; in the name of life and society...
constitutions must be written
one must be willing to sacrifice one's best goat
the whale must be fed
the state was to be given all power
39
The growth of scientific knowledge meant that tyrants could claim virtue by calling themselves:
Renaissance Rulers
First Among Equals
Kings of the State of Nature
Enlightened Despots
40
The famous engraver and satirist who created 'The Rake's Progress' series was Englishman:
Isaac Newton
Jonathan Swift
William Hogarth
Voltaire
41
Like Louis XIV, Frederick the Great tried to build a strong, centralized state; unlike Louis...
Frederick never let himself be painted
Frederick was bad at war
Frederick promoted religious toleration
Frederick believed in giving peace a chance
42
One basic tenant of Christianity that we see expressed throughout the modern Western world:
pursuit of salvation above all else
equality of all people
hypochondria-ism
celebration of important Christian holidays like Halloween
43
Rousseau saw the 'noble savage' as proof that humanity was corrupted by...
the New World's 'fallen' societies
foreigners and Gypsies
Christianity and Western culture
tooth decay and poor hygiene
44
This Polish thinker's theory of heliocentricism was published after he died (in 1543):
Nicolas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Newton
45
Descartes reasoned from the general to the particular, a problem-solving process known as...
heliocentricism
fibonacci sequence derivation spectronomy
deduction
induction
46
Western people value working; the 'Protestant work ethic' has its roots in...
Calvin's Method
Martin Luther's 99 Theses
St. Benedict's ideas
St. Thomas Aquinas's refutation of predestination
47
Who invented trying a 'scientific' thought experiment about man in a 'state of nature'?
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles de Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
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The belief that the government should support native industries & discourage imports is called:
laissez-faire
Cap and trade
mercantilism
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