World History Chapter 17
John Wesley
During the Enlightment, who tried to lower religion to the level of the lowest's people's capacities?
Inductive Reasoning
Francis Bacon believed that scientists should use what?
A series of concentric spheres
According to the Ptolemaic system the universe is?
The state should not regulate the economy
Adam Smith believed in Laissez-faire which meant?
World's greatest colonial power
As a result of the Treaty of Paris, Great Britain became what?
Prussia- Prussian army
Frederick the Great is credited with making who a great European power
The heavens were composes of a material substance just as Earth.
Galilieo's observations seemed to indicate that?
Meeting of 55 delegates to revise that Articles of Confederation
How did the Constitutional Convention begin?
By It's general will
In Rousseau's concept of a social contract, how does society agree to be governed?
Molded by the experiences that came through senses
John Locke's ideas suggest that people were?
Checks and Balances
Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought as his?
The Articles of Confederation
The America's nation's first constitution was called the?
Like A Clock
To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was?
Bill of Rights
What is the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Helio-centric
What theory states that the sun was the center of the universe?
How things moved
What was Issac Newton's universal law of gravitation?
Robert Walpole
Which british head of cabinet acquired Canada and India?
Descartes
Who was rightly called the father of modern rationalism?
Copernicus
Who was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe?
Voltaire
Who was the greatest figure of the Enlightment?