Letters to leader Unit 2 Exam Flashcards
Which of the following time periods is best defined as a period in which a new way of thinking about the world emerged based on careful observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs?
Scientific Revolution
Which of the following time periods is defined as a period in which there was a creation of a Christian Church which rejected the Pope’s authority?
Reformation
Which of the following time periods is best defined as a period in which the Scientific Method and reason were applied to all aspects of society?
Enlightenment
Which of the following time periods is best defined as a period in which there was an explosion of creativity in art and learning?
Renaissance
Which of the following time periods is also known as the Age of Reason?
Enlightenment
Which of the following time periods occurred largely between 1300 and 1600?
Renaissance
Which of the following time periods occurred largely during 1517 and 1648?
Reformation
Which of the following time periods occurred largely during the 1600 and 1700s?
Enlightenment
Medici Family
Renaissance
Machiavelli
Renaissance
Galileo Galilei
Enlightenment
Queen Elizabeth I
Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Rrnsiddssssnce
Sir Isaac Newton
Scientific Revolution
Johann Gutenberg
Renaissance
Thomas Hobbes
Scientific Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft
Scientific Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
Scientific Revolution
Martin Luther
Reformation
Pope Leo X
Reformation
King Henry VIII
Reformation
Index of Forbidden Books
Reformation
Act of Supremacy passed in England making King Henry VIII head of his own church
Reformation
Ignatius of Loyola forms the Society of Jesus; members known as Jesuits
Reformation
The development of the printing press
Renaissance
German Peasant Revolt of 1524
Reformation
Council of Trent
Reformation
Creation of the Anglican Church
Reformation
Queen Elizabeth I’s (English) navy defeats the Spanish Armada
Reformation
Books began to be written in the vernacular
Renaissance
Bubonic Plague eases and travel between countries resume
Renaissance
Which of the following is not a reason the Renaissance began in Italy?
Highly religious population
Which of the following was not one of the main ideas that characterized the Renaissance?
Scientific Progress
Which of the following was not an effect of the printing press?
Germany rose to power because they invented the printing press
What of the following was not an event or cause that spurred the Protestant Reformation?
The discoveries of Newton and Copernicus that called into question the Church’s absolute authority
Which of the following was not one of the main ideas of Luther’s 95 Theses?
The Roman Catholic Church was and always had been corrupt
Who were the Huguenots?
Protestant/Calvinist group in France
Which of the following is not one of the 3 activities on which the Jesuits focused?
Providing services to the poor and hungry
Which of the following was not one of the doctrines decided upon at the Council of Trent?
Only Church tradition should be used to guide Christian life
Who discovered the laws of the pendulum?
Who discovered the laws of the pendulum?
Why did the Church fear Galileo’s teachings?
If people believed the Church could be wrong on so many laws of nature and our universe, then about what else could they be wrong?
Who discovered the law of universal gravitation?
Newton
Which of the following is an example of the ideas of Thomas Hobbes?
Humans need government to keep order, without it chaos would reign
Which of the following is an example of the ideas of John Locke?
All humans are born free and equal with natural rights
Which of the following was not an impact of the Enlightenment?
A complete rejection of the church
What is an Enlightened Despot?
Absolute ruler who adopted the ideas of the Enlightenment
Which of the following rights in the U.S. Bill of Rights comes from a provision in the Magna Carta?
the right to due process of law
Which statement best summarizes the idea of representative government as it was established in the English Bill of Rights?
Laws are made and carried out by a group that acts for the people.
English colonists in America expected to have representative government in the colonies because
there was a tradition of representative government in England.
The idea that governments get their power from the people they govern is called
popular sovereignty.
The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen both
emphasize the rights of the individual.
The term “unalienable rights” in the American Declaration of Independence refers to rights that
a government cannot take away.
