Chapter 18: AP Euro
D'holbach's System of Nature presented...
A mechanical, atheist philosophy.
Catherine the Great of Russia came to power in 1762 through...
A military coup.
Before the Scientific Revolution, Europeans' view of the universe was based on the ideas of...
Aristotle.
Rousseau's concept of the "general will" asserts that...
Authentic, long term needs of the people can be correctly interpreted by a far seeing minority.
________'s Historical and Critical Dictionary displayed his skepticism.
Bayle.
Madame du Chatelet...
Believed women's limited contribution to science was the result of unequal education.
All of the following astronomers contributed to the destruction of Aristotle's view of the universe except...
Bernard de Frontelle.
According to it's editor, the fundamental goal of the Encyclopedia was to...
Change the general way of thinking.
_______'s Progress of the Human Mind tracked nine stages of human development.
Condorcet.
Galileo's greatest achievement was his...
Elaborated and summarized further the experimental method.
Immanuel Kant argued for...
Freedom of the press.
The "enlightened" policies of Frederick II of Prussia included all of the following except...
Freeing the Prussian serfs.
The Enlightenment reached it's highest development in France for all the following reasons except...
French scientists and universities were the most prominent in the Scientific Revolution.
According to _______'s theory of inertia, rest is not the natural state of objects.
Galileo.
In general, what was Voltaire's attitude toward government?
He believed that a good monarch was the best one could hope for.
In his essay, Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke claimed that...
Human development is determined by education and society.
The primary purpose of Frontelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686) was to...
Make popular make the findings of the Scientific Revolution.
_______'s Persian Letters satirized French society.
Montesquieu.
A striking feature of salons was that...
Philosophers, nobles, and members of the upper middle class intermingled.
Copernicus's theory of the universe...
Proposed a heliocentric view of the universe.
To improve the rural economy and lives of the peasants, Empress Maria Theresa...
Reduced nobles' power over their serfs.
All of the following were important trends of Enlightenment thought except...
Religion too could be analyzed using Enlightenment theories, and eventually religious truth could be known.
The two men generally given credit for creating the modern scientific method were Francis Bacon and...
Rene Descartes.
_______ reduced all substances to "matter" or "mind".
Rene Descartes.
The accomplishments of Frederick II included all of the following except...
Restructuring the Prussian social system.
All of the following were causes of the Scientific Revolution except...
The active support of the papacy.
Empiricism emphasized...
The actual observation of phenomena.
In his Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu argued for...
The separation of governmental powers.
Before 1500, science was primarily a
Theology.
The key feature of Newton's system was the law of...
Universal gravitation.