World History Chapter 17

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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?


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