Scientific Revolution - 2024

The Enlightenment philosophers believed that the power of the government should be derived from….?

• The people
• The elite nobles
• small group of rulers
• kings and queens

Why did the Church oppose Galileo?

• He was not a Catholic
• His ideas opposed their teachings
• He burned books in church libraries
• He was a Muslim and taught the Koran

Why is the Enlightenment considered a major turning point in history?

• People applied observation and reason to question traditional beliefs

• The church gained power as the ultimate authority
• Absolutism was upheld by the people
• Revolutionary ideas were discouraged by the monarchy

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that people had the right to life, liberty, and property.

• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Thomas Hobbes

Enlightenment thinker to first suggest the separation of powers and checks and balances in government?

• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

How did scientists begin challenging authority during the Scientific Revolution? 

• By testing old beliefs using logic, math and observation
• By reading classic literature
• By collecting samples of plant life
• By forming new government ideas

Which scientist was charged with heresy for supporting Copernicus’s teaching that Earth revolves around the Sun?

• Galileo
• Newton
• Kepler
• Bacon

Who spread ideas for equal rights for education for women in the Enlightenment?

• Wollstonecraft
• Thomas Hobbes
• Cavendish
• Rosa Parks

According to Copernicus, the sun  

• Revolved around the earth (geocentrism)

• Was the center of the Universe (heliocentrism)

• Was the biggest star
•  Had many moons

Scientists began using _____________ and _______________ instead of placing their beliefs in faith.

• History and faith
• Math and Science
• Math and History
• Observation and reason