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What are the steps in the scientific method?
Make observation
Form hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze data
Draw conclusion
What is a scientific theory?
A carefully thought out explanation for observations of the natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method (HYPOTHESIS)
How did people think about the world before the scientific revolution?
The Earth was the center of the universe (GEOCENTRIC)
What is another word for the Enlightenment period?
Age of reason
Who Did Rousseau want to govern?
He wanted the community to govern (Believed in natural laws)
Who made the first encyclopedia?
Denis Diderot
Name the Russian monarch that expanded the lands
Catherine the great
Name the father of economics
Adam Smith
What was the main idea that philosophers used to try to improve society?
Reason and logic to improve human rights
Name the scientist that discovered the law of gravity
Sir Isaac Newton
Name the meeting place of the philosophers
Salon
How were ideas spread about during the enlightenment?
Salons, encyclopedia, writings
How did the scientific revolution open the door to the enlightenment?
demonstrated logic and scientific method
What is an enlightened despot?
Monarchs that embraced new ideas and made new reforms/influenced by enlightenment
Define philosopher
A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment
What type of government did most philosophers like?
Enlightened monarchy
Name the first person to publish a book about the heliocentric theory
Copernicus
What does Galileo and a philosopher have in common?
Beliefs against the church
Who wrote Leviathan?
Thomas Hobbes
Why did enlightenment thinkers face censorship?
Their ideas challenged traditional beliefs
Why was Catherine the great considered an enlightened despot?
she ruled with absolute authority, but took steps to modernize and reform Russia, tried to end serfdom
Name the US document that protects the natural rights of citizens
US Constitution
US Bill of Rights
How does the US Constitution reflect ideas of the enlightenment?
Checks and balances, individual freedom, government by the people
Which philosopher believed in separation of powers (Branches)
Montesquieu
What was the impact of the enlightenment? What revolutions did it inspire?
Lead many people to think about their government and to consider ways in which it should be reformed. Inspired American Revolution, French revolution, and Latin America
What would Locke and Rousseau agree on?
Promote reason and freedom as essential components of political societies (People should have say in government)
What does life, liberty, and the right property represent?
Natural rights (John Locke)
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