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Age of Reason

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  • Name the historical period *development of inductive reasoning* heliocentric model *Newton's laws of motion
    The classical era
    The Scientific Revolution
    The Medieval Period
    The Renaissance
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  • Montesquieu believed that government should be separated. This would provide a system of
    checks and balances
    government authority
    capitalism
    natural rights
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  • Which best characterizes the Scientific Revolution?
    After embracing the geocentric theory, the church becomes powerful again
    the discovery of the earth being the center of the universe
    The Muslim world creates the Scientific Method
    use of reason-natural laws-new conceptions of the universe
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  • What was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution?
    application of reason and knowledge to political thought
    rise of feudalism
    acceptance of the divine right theory
    decline in the growth of cities
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  • Which is an important idea of the Enlightenment?
    a strict class system is necessary for an effective economy
    monarchs have divine right to rule
    governments should have strict control over the economy
    all individuals have natural rights
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  • Who believed that people should forgo their desires for the interest of society (Social Contract)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Voltaire
    Montesquieu
    Adam Smith
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  • What two Enlightment thinkers advocated for the separation of powers?
    Smith and Diderot
    Rousseau and Wolstonecraft
    Blackstone and Montesquieu
    Locke and Voltaire
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  • Whose philosophies are described? 1. people have natural rights 2. people have the right to overthrow unjust governments
    Mary Wolstonecraft
    Montesquieu
    John Locke
    Adam Smith
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  • How are Hobbes and Locke similar?
    popular sovereinty
    both believe that it is the duty of the people to overthrow unjust rulers
    both believe in divine right
    both believe that governments should protect its people
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  • What theory states that the earth is at the center of the universe?
    Copernicun theory
    Heliocentric
    Geocentric
    Pathagorean Theorem
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  • arrested by the Catholic church for proposing that the Sun is at the center of the universe Wrote Starry Messenger
    Newton
    Galileo
    Aristotle
    Ptolemy
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  • Law of Gravitation?
    Francis Bacon
    Johannes Kepler
    Nicolaus Copernicus
    Isaac Newton
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  • Who first proposed the Heliocentric Theory?
    Andreas Vesaleus
    Isaac Newton
    Nicolaus Copernicus
    Thomas Jefferson
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  • First proposed by Francis Bacon
    Heliocentric Theory
    Geocentric Theory
    Scientific Method
    Universal Law of Motion
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