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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
    natural rights
    government authority
    capitalism
    checks and balances
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  • Which best characterizes the Scientific Revolution?
    the discovery of the earth being the center of the universe
    use of reason-natural laws-new conceptions of the universe
    The Muslim world creates the Scientific Method
    After embracing the geocentric theory, the church becomes powerful again
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  • What was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution?
    decline in the growth of cities
    application of reason and knowledge to political thought
    acceptance of the divine right theory
    rise of feudalism
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  • Which is an important idea of the Enlightenment?
    a strict class system is necessary for an effective economy
    governments should have strict control over the economy
    monarchs have divine right to rule
    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
    Locke and Voltaire
    Blackstone and Montesquieu
    Rousseau and Wolstonecraft
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  • Whose philosophies are described? 1. people have natural rights 2. people have the right to overthrow unjust governments
    Adam Smith
    Montesquieu
    Mary Wolstonecraft
    John Locke
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  • How are Hobbes and Locke similar?
    both believe that governments should protect its people
    both believe that it is the duty of the people to overthrow unjust rulers
    both believe in divine right
    popular sovereinty
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  • What theory states that the earth is at the center of the universe?
    Geocentric
    Copernicun theory
    Heliocentric
    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
    Ptolemy
    Aristotle
    Galileo
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  • Law of Gravitation?
    Francis Bacon
    Isaac Newton
    Johannes Kepler
    Nicolaus Copernicus
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  • Who first proposed the Heliocentric Theory?
    Nicolaus Copernicus
    Andreas Vesaleus
    Thomas Jefferson
    Isaac Newton
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  • First proposed by Francis Bacon
    Universal Law of Motion
    Scientific Method
    Geocentric Theory
    Heliocentric Theory
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