Ms. Long Q3 Review

Which statement best describes the Age of Enlightenment?

• A time period when electricity was discovered and lightbulbs were made.

• A time period when Europeans set sail and explored the New World.

• A time period when authors, musicians and scientists came up with new ideas that challenged traditions.

• A time period known as the Reformation when people protested the Catholic church.

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of an Absolute Monarch?

• Great wealth

• Dedication to a local church

• Large armies

• Total power over their nation

Number 8 is:

• Great Britain/England

• Germany

• Austria

• Czechoslovakia

Number 12 is:

• Poland

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• East Prussia

Number 17 is:

• Poland

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• France

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule

• Fascism
• Communism
• Socialism
• Democracy

He was a polish mathematician and astronomer who was first to determine that the sun was the center of the solar system.

• Galilieo

• Humes

• Copernicus

• Descartes

A German mathematician who was known for his laws of planetary motion in elliptical orbits around the sun.

• Leviticus

• Kepler

• Columbus

• Newton

Who was the Italian physicist and astronomer who proved that objects of different weights, if dropped from the same height, fell at the same rate of speec. He was also responsible discovering the law of the pendulum.

• Galileo

• Vesalius

• Hooke

• Boyle

Who was the English scientist who discovered the laws of gravitation?

• Galileo

• Newton

• Kepler

• Copernicus