The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution
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- Q1Believed that people were selfish and needed a strong government to protect them from themselves.Hobbes30s
- Q2Argued for education as a way of improving the lives of women.Mary Wollstonecraft30s
- Q3Rights that are inherent in every person. We are born with them.Natural Rights30s
- Q4Believed splitting government into three parts was the best way to protect liberty (separation of powers)Montesquieu30s
- Q5Argued that the only true purpose of government was to protect natural rights.John Locke30s
- Q6Believed free speech was necessary to protect natural rights and liberty.Voltaire30s
- Q7Argued that torture and cruel punishments were unnecessary. Argued for protections for those accused of a crime.Becarria30s
- Q8Theory that says the earth and planets revolve around the sunHeliocentric30s
- Q9Developed the scientific methodSir Francis Bacon30s
- Q10Physicist and mathematician who developed calculus and mathematical theories of gravity and the study of motionSir Isaac Newton30s
- Q11Used a telescope to help prove the theory of Copernicus. Did early experiments studying gravity.Galileo30s
- Q12First to propose the earth orbited the sunCopernicus30s
- Q13Studied whether the air was made up of many elementsRobert Boyle30s