Western Civ Test 1

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Descrates

"I think, therefore I am."

Locke

Believed that mankind was a "tabula rosa."

True

Denis Diderot was the author of Classified Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Occupations.

Dialogue on the Two Great Systems of the World

Galileo Galilei wrote

False

Nicholas Copernicus was a geocentrist.

Elizabeth I of England and the Netherlands.

Philip II of Spain had two major problems plaguing him during his reign, what were they?

King Gustavus II Adolphus

The Father of Modern Warfare

Librorum Prohibitorum

The List of books banned by the Catholic Church

Marie Theresa accepting the throne of Austria from her father.

The Pragmatic Sanction applied to which of the following.

Bacon

The Royal Society was established by which of the following?

Divine Right of Kings

The basis for the French King Louis XIV reign was which of the following?

Treaty of Treaty of Utrecht

Which document ended the War of Spanish Succession?

Hobbes

Who believed that humans were naturally violent and disorderly?

Voltaire

Who believed that only science and reasoning, not religion, was the salvation of mankind?

William of Orange

Who helped the Dutch to fight the Spanish?

Colbert

Who was the French treasurer responsible for increasing revenues?

England

Who was the only mistress of Queen Elizabeth of England?

Rousseau

Who wrote Discourse Concerning Science and the Arts?

Montesquieu

Who wrote Spirit of the Laws?

Locke

Who wrote Two Treatises of Government

Hobbes

Who wrote the Leviathan?

Voltaire

Who wrote the Philosophical Dictionary?


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