MS WS - Chapter 9 Review

Which European country ruled successfully without royal power?

Galileo created the metric system and the first known list of elements.

Who created concepts known as the laws of gravity and motion?

Renes Descartes supported rationalism and thought that only mathematics led towards absolute truth.

What happened to Charles I after he lost the English Civil War?

How were James II and Charles II related to each other?

The 18th and 19th centuries in Europe is known as the “Age of Reason”.

Who is known as the “Father of Medicine” and argued that every disease had a natural cause?

What caused the English Civil War to happen?

During the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, what was viewed as the ultimate source of authority?

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that Christianity and the Bible limited human liberty?

Heliocentrism teaches that the sun is the center of the universe while geocentricism teaches that the earth is.

Which Enlightenment thinker argued in favor of natural rights – that mankind was granted liberty by God?

What was the Bishop’s War?

What is the study of anatomy?

When Oliver Cromwell ruled England, what was his government known as?

What is empiricism?

Which French king served as an inspiration for those who supported absolutism?

What is secularism?

Muslim scholars preserved ancient Roman and Greek sources.

What did the English Bill of Rights do?

Because of the Divine Rights of Kings, kings argued that to question their power was to question God who appointed them.

The Enlightenment strengthened the role of Christianity in society.

Who is known as the “Father of Modern Chemistry”?

The problem with secularism is that no society can be free from religion as all people are created as religious beings.

Why was the revolution of 1688 in England known as the Glorious Revolution?

What is Absolutism?

To become king and queen, William and Mary were asked to sign what document?

What is rationalism?