Renaissance, Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment
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- Q1When did the Enlightenment take place?1650 - 1800Dark AgesThe Middle Ages1900 - 195030s
- Q2What cause did Mary Wollstonecraft fight for?American independenceRights for womenRights for minoritiesLaissez Faire30s
- Q3"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Which Enlightenment philosopher had the greatest impact on this phrase from the Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson?WollstonecraftDescartesHobbesLocke30s
- Q4Believed that people were born with natural rights that could not be taken away by governmentPlatoAristotleLockeHobbes30s
- Q5Hobbes believed that all humans were inherentlyevilsympatheticgoodpartiers30s
- Q6He introduced the Law of GravityIsaac NewtonGalileoCopernicusJohn Locke30s
- Q7Heliocentric theory stated that the earth is the center of the universe.FalseTrue30s
- Q8Geocentric theory stated that the sun is the center of the universe.FalseTrue30s
- Q9He was the first person to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.Isaac NewtonGalileoLeonardo Da VinciCopernicus30s
- Q10First to study the stars with a telescope.VoltaireCopernicusJohn LockeGalileo30s
- Q11Earth is at the center of the universeVoltaireHeliocentricGeocentricGalileo30s
- Q12Believed the universe was heliocentricVoltaireGalileoJohn LockeCopernicus30s
- Q13Life, Liberty, and PropertyJohn LockeVoltaireGalileoThomas Hobbes30s
- Q14Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short.Thomas HobbesGalileoJohn LockeVoltaire30s
- Q15I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to.VoltaireThomas HobbesIsaac NewtonGalileo30s