The Enlightenment
Questions:
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Questions:
- The Enlightenment is also known as what?
- What does the word Enlightenment mean and why was this time period given this name?
- Who were the two men considered to be the Fathers of the Enlightenment?
- Descartes' laws focused on the ______________________ of things, like ocean waves and the spinning of windmills.
- Isaac Newton created a new branch of mathematics called __________________________, and made crucial discoveries in _______________________, the science of light, and mathematically formulate the laws of ________________________ while watching an apple fall from a tree.
- He calculated the weights of the ____________ and ____________________.
- The studies of chemistry, electricity, and biology grew at an especially rapid rate due in part to the use of the _____________________, a scientific tool developed at the end of the Renaissance.
- William Harvey was the first person to describe what?
- What would natural philosophers be called today?
- This man felt that people should be able to choose who governs them.
- What are the three basic natural rights?
- Freedom of the _______________, __________________ reform, and religious _________________, as well as the ____________ of governments that failed to protect basic human rights were also promoted by this individual.
- Voltaire championed the idea of Freedom of ____________________. "I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Montesquieu wanted a complete separation of what?
- What is a deist?
If you could correctly answer the questions in the video quiz at the end, you would be all set for a pop quiz on this material! :)