the sun revolved around 

the earth

Ptolemy

1500's ?

the Scientific Revolution began

thought people were naturally selfish and violent

 Thomas  Hobbes

Who was the scientist who theorized the sun was the center of the universe?

Copernicus 

Define laissez-faire

let people do as they please, noninterference

What is the meaning of science?

any organized study of how

 the natural world works

Who stated, "I think, therefore I am."

Rene Descartes

During the Scientific Revolution, what allowed science and religion to coexist?

deism

What does Hypothesize mean, as in the second step in the Scientific Method?

this step, hypothesize, means;

 to try to create an explanation of the facts

Mary Wollstonecraft

wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women

What did William Harvey discover?

the heart pumps blood

What did delegates do to

create a stronger national government?

write the US Constitution

1783

Great Britain recognized

American Independence

What idea is it when a government

receives its powers from the people it governs?

popular sovereignty

 a sweeping change in the way

Europeans understood science

Scientific Revolution

The English Bill of Rights

written during the Glorious Revolution

What do Catherine II, Louis XIV, and Frederick the Great have in common?

all were enlightened despots

What is Enlightenment?

the era when people believed reason was a

better guide than religious faith or tradition

Isaac Newton

developed the universal law

of gravitation

Why did the First Continental

Congress meet?

to call for the repeal of various

British policies

Who or what began tradition of self-government

in New England?

Mayflower Compact

Martin Luther King, Jr.

civil rights leader who believed

in equal opportunity and

human rights

religious tolerance

Enlightenment idea involving accepting

differences in beliefs

Why was Galileo accused of heresy?

he argued that the Earth

revolved around the Sun

the French Revolution

influenced by the Enlightenment ideas

Why did members of the Third Estate

resent privileges of nobles

a result of the Enlightenment ideas

Roots of the Scientific Revolution

European explorations, contact with the

Islamic world, and the

humanist approach to reason

Roots of the American Revolution 

the Enlightenment idea of social contract

Voltaire

greatest thinker of the Enlightenment

Denis Diderot

spread Enlightenment ideas

Ptolemy

stated that Earth was center of the universe

Francis Bacon

developed scientific method

Declaration of Independence

contains ideas of John Locke

Sun King who ruled

France for 72 years

Louis XIV

North America

Where England's colonies are most.

A major problem with Greek scientific theories.

theories based on observations rather

than on experiments

Johannes Kepler

theorized that planets moved in oval paths

around the Sun

Know the difference in views of Natural Law

between Thomas Hobbes and

John Locke

Hobbes believed people were naturally violent;

Locke believed people had natural rights

Laissez-faire

Enlightenment idea advocating

separation of government

and the economy