7-2 questions pt 1
During the Middle Ages, the Christian thinker ______ showed that Christianity and reason could work together.
Thomas Aquinas
During the Age of the Enlightenment, educated people began to use reason to uncover error and show truth.
True
During the Middle Ages, the Hindu-Arabic system of numbers replaced Roman numerals.
True
Philosophes often gathered at meetings to discuss ideas.
True
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered tiny organisms called ______.
bacteria
A social contract is an agreement between ______.
the people and their leaders
Who discovered that materials need oxygen to burn?
Antoine Lavoisier
Which of the following authors wrote that the best government has a separation of powers?
Baron Montesquieu
An Earth-centered theory of the universe is called heliocentric.
False
Beginning in the 1400s, the Catholic clergy made large contributions to the scientific knowledge of Europe.
False
The absolute monarchs shared power with a parliament.
False
Which of the following statements is accurate?
Gravity is the pull of the Earth and other bodies on objects at or near their surfaces.
How did Andreas Vesalius make discoveries about the human body?
He cut open dead human bodies.
The Glorious Revolution started when the English parliament forced King ______ to leave England.
James II
Who wrote a book called The Social Contract?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What scientist proved that planets move in oval paths?
Johannes Kepler
Thomas Hobbes wrote a book called ______, which supported a government with an absolute monarch.
Leviathan
Which of the following is the correct order of steps used in the scientific method?
Observe facts; form hypothesis; test hypothesis; develop scientific law.
______ improved Russia's military and expanded Russia to the Baltic Sea.
Peter the Great
Mary Wollstonecraft thought women should have ______.
equal rights with men