Enlightenment Review

What is an absolute monarchy?

• one ruler has supreme authority and is not restricted by any written laws,

• a system of government that the population elects representatives

• A group of people that rule together with no restrictions

• Everyone in the country does whatever they want

Enlightenment philosophy emphasized that governments should reflect:

• natural laws

• the church

• science

• monarchies

An agreement by which people give up their freedoms for an organized society.

• social contract

• natural rights

• natural law

• laissez-faire

Which theory originally stated that the Earth was the center of the solar system?

• Eurocentric Theory

• Geocentric Theory

• Plutocentric

• Heliocentric Theory

The Catholic Church attacked Galileo because he defended the system that said the _______ revolved around the ______.

• Stars... Moon

• Moon... Earth

• Earth... Sun

• Sun... Earth

Absolute monarchs who used their power to bring about political and social change...

• limited monarchs

• enlightened rulers

• social contractors

• philosophers

Rights that belong to all humans at birth

• social contract

• natural law

• laissez-faire

• natural rights

Answer explanation

Life, Liberty, and Property

Father of economics. His ideas are the basis of Capitalism

• Smith

• Wollstonecraft

• Locke

• Diderot

Who believed that women's education should be the same as men's?

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

• Locke

What does it mean for a King to have Divine Right?

• The King is not really in power at all.

• Rules by the suggestions of the people.

• Rules by listening to the Church to make decisions.

• Rules by the power and blessing of God.