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Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment Quiz
Matching
1. ___Created the Encyclopedia to spread knowledge and Enlightenment ideas
2. ___Created calculus, theorized that gravity kept the planets in orbit, and many
other discoveries
3. ___Places where enlightenment figures came to discuss and debate ideas
4. ___Inherent freedoms that everybody has by being human, such as Life, Liberty,
and Property.
5. ___Believed that people were inherently wicked, and as such need laws to
prevent them from doing evil. Wrote Leviathan
6. ___An agreement made between a government and its citizens to give up some
rights in return for protection, the people may revolt if the government does not
meet their needs
7. ___Discovered the moons of Jupiter and helped prove the Heliocentric theory
8. ___Wrote to promote the equal extension of liberty and freedom for women and
men
9. ___Believed that people were born with Natural Rights, and the point of
government is to protect these rights. Wrote Two Treatises of Government
10. ___Ways in which different branches of government prevent each other from
dominating the people
11. ___Believed that government and society corrupted people and that Direct
Democracy was the best way to protect the people’s will
12. ___Refuted the geocentric model of the universe and created a heliocentric
model
13. ___The sun as the center of the universe
14. ___Wrote satirical works critical of absolute governments such as Candide
15. ___The process by which one tests knowledge by submitting hypotheses, doing
research, testing one’s prediction, analyzing the data, and publishing results for
other people to critique
16. ___Discovered microorganisms while looking through a microscope
17. ___Physician who made influential work in anatomy and biology
18. ___Argued for the separation of government into different branches to prevent
any one from seizing too much power
19. ___Philosopher famous for the phrase “I think, therefore I am”
Extended Response
1. Predict what effect the discoveries of the scientific revolution might have on the
rest of the world outside of Europe. Do you think the scientific method and
different discoveries will be accepted or not? Explain your prediction by using
evidence from how Europe reacted.
2. Choose an enlightenment figure from the following list: Rousseau, Locke,
Montesquieu, Hobbes. Explain what they thought of people, and what they
thought of the role of government was. Do you agree with their opinion? Why or
why not? Provide examples from your life to justify your answer. (6 pts)
Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Matching Section
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John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Denis Diderot
Galileo Galilei
Nicolas Copernicus
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
William Harvey
Anton von Leuwenhoek
Natural Rights
Heliocentric Model
Scientific Process
Social Contract
Checks and Balances
Salons