Renaissance through Enlightenment Review

He started a new sect based on predestination.

He defied the Catholic Church and lived, inspiring others to protest and create their own sects

He wrote many plays that appealed to everyone and set many typical story lines.

Which of the following became less emphasized during the Enlightenment?

Which came first?

He wrote three laws of physics and a law of gravitation.

He said that gov't power should be divided into branches so no one has too much.

He had many wives while trying to get a male heir.

His device made it possible to print books faster and led to more education.

The application of the scientific method to other things like gov and economics.

The idea that a person has the right to know what crime they are accused of.

He believed people are born bad and need a strong ruler to make them behave.

He was a good ruler until his wife died, then he went crazy and killed his son accidentally.

She advocated for women's rights and her daughter wrote Frankenstein

The Catholic church forced him to take back all his research, but apologized in 1992.

He doubted everything but logic and math. "I think therefore I am."

He wrote the heliocentric theory but published it only on his death bed.

He used math to prove the planets move in ovals.

He tried ignore parliament and take more power, but lost his head in a civil war instead.

He said that torture and the death penalty were immoral and should be outlawed.

The splitting off of new Christian sects from Catholicism.

He wrote that people have a social contract with the gov't, and could change it if needed.

He led the parliamentary army that defeated the king. He later made himself a dictator.

The idea that human life now matters, and G-d would be okay with us improving it.

The first extension of the Magna Carta to give more rights to more people.

He was the first truly absolute king of France. He led a lavish lifestyle at his palace.

He supported free speech and freedom of religion. He would die for your right to disagree.

He traveled to France, and started modernizing Russia by building St. Petersburg.

He ruled in place of Louis XIII and made the Bourbon family very powerful.

He rejected Aristotle, and set the stage for the scientific method.