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Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
World History
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History
9th Grade
01/18/2010

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What were the three ares of scientific enlightenment?
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  1. Astronomy
  2. Physics
  3. Medicine and physiology

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who established the geocentric system?
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Ptolemy
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What was the geocentric system?
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Earth at the center of the universe
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who established the heliocentric system?
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Cepernicis
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what was the heliocentric system?
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sun is the center of the universe
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what did Galileo publish?
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The Starry Messanger
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Who was Francis Bacon
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man who created the scientific method
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what century did the scientific revolution begin?
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the 16th century
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the starry messenger published the theory of what?
Definition
heliocentric system
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what did Isaac Newton discover?
Definition
the laws of gravity
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Who said, "I think therefore I am."
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Renee Des Cart
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Who was Renee Des Cart?
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father of rationalism and reason
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primarily the enlightenment thinkers were from?
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France
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John Locke
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men are born good and natural rights
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what were the natural rights?
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life, liberty, and property. And a man has the right to overthrow government
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Who created the three branches of power?
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Montesque
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"God is playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh" and "No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ"
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Voltaire
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Voltaire championed what religious belief?
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Deism
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Adam Smith
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created laissez faire economics 
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what was laissez faire economics?
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government serves no roll in society
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Roussau
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created theory of social contract
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what two revolutions did the enlightenment impact?
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French and the American
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who put Galileo on house arrest? 
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the inquisition
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The enlightenment began in what century?
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17th century
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What four general areas did the enlightenment concern?
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  1. Human nature
  2. government
  3. economics
  4. religion

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