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Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
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1
Thirty Years War ended with...?
1598 Henry IV - Huguenots freedom to worship & assemble
Peace Treaty of Westphalia
St. Bartholomew’s massacre
Creation of the church of England
2
William Shakespeare wrote in many of his plays of the conflict between which two countries?
Austria and England
France and Austria
France and England
3
Which French mathematician started work on a device to calculate taxes that some consider the first digital calculator?
Blaise Pascal
Laura Bassi
Robert Boyle
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
4
Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are ___.
Intelligent
Selfish
Pure
Innocent
5
Rousseau believed in and wrote the book called:
Absolute Monarchies
The Social Contract
Social Media
Republican Governments
6
What does
geocentric
mean?
Belief the Earth is at the middle of the Universe
Belief you could fall off the Earth
Belief the planets go around the Sun
Belief the Earth is at the end of the Universe
7
What did Galileo do that was so upsetting to the Catholic Church?
Proved that he was a good scientist
Proved the heliocentric model is correct
Proved the geocentric model is correct
Proved that facebook existed a long time ago
8
Which of these monarchs was connected with the Glorious Revolution?
George III
Mary and William
Charles I
Charles II
9
What happened to Galileo after he published his discoveries, proving Copernicus was correct?
Tried for heresy and placed under house arrest
Tried for heresy and killed
Escaped to the Americas.
Nothing.
10
Who wrote The Wealth of Nations, the first modern work of economics, describing capitalism?
Voltaire
John Locke
Adam Smith
Francis Bacon
11
The Magna Carter...
granted independence to British colonies
granted absolute rights
limited the power of the English king
limited the power of deductive reasoning
12
What did Johannes Kepler discover?
Heliocentric model
Elliptical orbits
Geocentric model
Gravity
13
Sir Francis Bacon created:
The Ham and Cheese Sandwich
The Double Bacon Cheeseburger
The Scientific Method
The Humanistic Method
14
What freedoms did Voltaire say all people should have?
religion, to bear arms, and anarchy
religion, privacy, and trade
religion, expression (speech), and trade
religion, dress, and trade
15
Isaac Newton proved:
Gravity
Magnetism
Empiricism
Rationalism
16
Major impact of the Enlightenment?
Strengthen monarchies
Democratic revolutions such as America & France
Religious dominance
Democratic revolutions such as North Korea & Russia
People looked more at politics and non religious attitudes
Reject science
17
Descartes said:
"I'm pink; therefore, I'm spam."
"I think; therefore, I am."
"I tweet; therefore, I am."
"I sink; therefore, I swam."
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What did Galileo discover?
moons of Jupiter
sunspots
all of the above
mountains and craters on the moon
19
Economist, wrote
The Wealth of Nations...
Adam Smith
Baron de Montesquieu
Pierre Bayle
Voltaire
20
Who was most famous for his idea of the Separation of Powers in government?
Baron von Leibniz
Baron de Rouge
Baron de Montesquieu
Baron Weishaupt
21
Before the Enlightenment, ancient thinking relied on the teachings of ______ which was taken as absolut truth.
classical authors
church
parents
teachers
22
Adam Smith, the father of lassaiz-faire economics, believed that....
mercantilism was the only way to ensure free trade
that government should regulate the economy
that means of production should be owned by all people
that government should not regulate the economy
23
Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, and Montesquieu are considered
contributors to the Scientific Revolution
successful entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution
prominent revolutionaries
Enlightenment thinkers
24
Deism if the belief that
religion is diary tales to frighten the superstitious.
God created the universe but does not actively run it.
if God exists, he has no interest in the world.
praying matters.
25
Who invented calculus and the calculator?
Leibniz
Galileo
Werner
Leeuwenhoek
26
How did the monarchies of England and France fundamentally differ?
In France, the monarch did not interfere with religion.
In France, elected assemblies limited the monarch’s power.
In England, power was shared between the monarch and Parliament.
In England, the monarch had absolute power.
27
The Bourgeoisie were:
peasants
priests
wealthy nobles
secular, enlightened, and middle class
28
Rationalism is:
Belief that truth can be discovered by using your senses.
Belief that truth can be discovered using youtube videos.
Belief that truth can be discovered using science.
Belief that truth can be discovered using logic and reason.
29
Social Contract theory of government is when:
People consent to be governed
Monarchs tell people they will govern them because God said
People consent to medical experiments
People band together to overthrow the government
30
John Locke said everyone is born with which three basic rights:
life, death, taxes
life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
life, liberty, property
homegwork , good grades, and a Jolly Rancher
31
What did Sir Isaac Newton discover?
Laws of energy
Laws of gravitation and motion
Water
Apple Trees
32
Bacon and Descartes created the...
Law of Motion
Laws of Gravity
Heliocentric Method
Scientific Method
33
Last monarch of England's House of Tudor due to no heir to the throne
Elizabeth the I
Henry VIII
Richard III
Elizabeth II
34
The Scientific Method is:
Gravity
A systematic procedure for collecting & analyzing evidence
Rationalism
Social Contract
35
Louis XIV believed France revolved around the king and was thus nicknamed
Sun-King
The Center
His Majesty
God-King
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Enlightenment Ideas included
absolute monarchy above all else
change in or addition to the Constitution
reason & thought
first 10 amendments
