The Scientifif Revolution And Englightenment

Question 1

Thinkers during the Enlightenment challenged the established social order by

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Calling for a just society based on reason

Question 2

Which of the following is a true statement about European Peasants during the Enlightenment?

Answer 2

The Enlightenment had little effect on their life

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT part of Beccaria’s philosophy?

Answer 3

Civilization corrupted people’s goodness

Question 4

Which of the Following does not characterize the nature of the Scientific Revolution?

Answer 4

It was not really revolutionary

Question 5

The astronomer who discovered the elliptical orbit pattern of the planets was

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Kepler

Question 6

Philosophers were largely

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Against intolerance

Question 7

In the 15th venture, the standard explanation of the arrangement of the heavens combined the work of

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Ptolemy and Aristotle

Question 8

Lock’s philosophy consisted of all of the following ideas except…

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The degree of punishment should be based on the seriousness of the crime

Question 9

Francis bacon believed that…

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Knowledge of nature should be used to improve human condition

Question 10

Monarchs most closely associated with enlightened absolutism include all of the following except

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Louis XIV

Question 11

Mary Wollenstonecraft argued that

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Women, like men, need education to become virtuous and useful

Question 12

Which of the following statements regarding Hobbes’s opinion in the state of man in nature is true?

Answer 12

Men are intellectually more equal than they are physically

Question 13

Which of the following statements does not reflect the thinking of Hobbes?

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Because men are indifferent, conflict is limited to a few

Question 14

Hobbes that the source of quarrels among men is

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mistrust and competition

Question 15

According to Hobbes, the root of society’s problems stems from

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Nature predisposing men to behave destructively and the lack of a superior power

Question 16

Which of the following would agree with Hobbes’s philosophy?

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Oliver Cromwell

Question 17

The video of DW’s explanations of the workings of nature resembles the thinking of which pair?

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The ancient Greeks and the Catholic Church

Question 18

The answer, “It calls into question the American Revolution,” goes with which question?

Answer 18

How might the history of the U.S. be different if not for Enlightenment thinkers?

Question 19

Roseau

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Said, “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

Question 20

Declaration of Independence

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“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Question 21

Wollenstonecraft

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Woman who urged woman to enter male-dominated fields of medicine and politics

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Salons

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Informal social gatherings at which writers, authors, artists, and philosophes shared ideas.

Question 23

Baroque

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Art that was personal, elegant, and charming

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6th amendment

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Right to a speedy trial

Question 25

Rosseau

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Influenced, “No Title of nobility shall be granted by the U.S.

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Voltaire

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“I do not agree with a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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8th amendment

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Prohibits excessive bail, fines, cruel and unusual punishment

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Descartes

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Developed analytical geometry as a tool for scientific research

Question 29

Copernicus

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Developed the heliocentric theory

Question 30

Newton

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Developed the 3 laws of motion