Enlightenment, Absolute Monarchs, and the Scientific Revolution - Unit Test

Enlightenment Philosopher who believed in government as a contract between the ruler and the ruled

• Locke
• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes

Enlightenment Philosopher who believed that humainty needed a strong ruler to control their evil nature

• Hobbes
• Lock
• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

Absolute rulers that tried to make life better for their people in order to strengthen their country's power.

• Enlightened Despot
• Absolute Monarch
• Constitutional Monarch

Enlightenment philosopher who challenged the idea of "divine right to rule"

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Locke
• Voltaire

Father the the enlightenment

• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

The Enlightenment suggested that...?

• Science and reason could be used to solve social problems
• Social Sciences could be used to solve religious problems
• Science and Reason could be used to make a stronger military

The Scientific Method was born...?

• During the Scientific Revolution
• During the Enlightenment
• During the Renaissance

The first scientist to discover the sun was the center of the solar system

• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Ptolamy

Monarchs that had absolute power over their nations and stated they ruled by divine right

• Despots
• Absolute Monarchs
• Kings
• Princes

Weak French King but had a strong prime minister who helped France become an absolute Monarchy

• Louis XIII
• Henry of Savoy
• Louis XIV
• Louis XV