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Enlightenment Thinkers
Thinkers from the Enlightenment. World history textbook chapter 17
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9th Grade
12/10/2010

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Who created the scientific meathod?
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Francis Bacon
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What did Isaac Newton think the world was?
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A machine
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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Thomas Jefferson
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What are the first ten ammendmants called?
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The Bill of Rights
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What is Tabula Rosa?
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The belief that all humans are born with a blank mind and it was filled with memories and experiances
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This thinker beleived in the Tabula Rosa.
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John Locke
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This scientist believed in the law of gravitation.
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Isaac Newton
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Montesquieu believed in a system in that government ensured that one branch did not get more power than another. This was called what?
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Checks and balances.
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Before the heart, what organ was believed to pump blood throughout the body?
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The liver
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Who was the first to use the telescope?
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Galileo
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René Descartes is believed to be the father of what?
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Rationalism
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Who was the first astronomer to believe in a heliocentric universe?
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Copernicus
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Who wrote the first encyclopedia?
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Diderot
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What was the first city to have a daily newspaper?
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London
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Rosseau believed in governing by general will in a process called what?
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Social contracts
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This was a drawing room where people could go to discuss ideas.
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Salon
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She said that women should have more rights.
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Wollstonecraft
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Voltaire believed that God had made the world and left it and that...
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It was wound up like a clock.
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What was the belief that the state should not interfere with the economy?
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Laissez-Faire
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This composer composed The Messiah and Hallelujah
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Handel
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What discovery made Maria Winkleman famous?
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A comet
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As a result of the Treaty of Paris, which country became the leadingm power in colonies?
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Great Britan
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Bacon believed in this type of reasoning pertaining to the scientific method.
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Inductive
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Kepler believed that planets orbited the sun in this type of orbit.
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Elliptical
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This Greek philosopher believed in the geocentric orbit.
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Ptolemy
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In the Ptolemaic system, what was the Prime Mover?
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God
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