| A | B |
|---|
| Scientific Revolution | 1500 & 1600s scientific thinkers questioned traditional ideas |
| Copernicus | said the planets revolve around the Sun, not Earth |
| Galileo | used telescope to observe the skies but was threatened with death for his beliefs |
| Scientific method | new method that relied on experimentation and observation |
| Enlightenment | period in the 1700s where people rejected traditional ideas and supported the belief in human reason |
| Baron de Montesquieu | felt government should be separated into three branches and this would create a system of checks and balances |
| John Locke | natural rights- life, liberty, property |
| Voltaire | believed in free speech |
| Enlightened Despots | the monarchs who accepted Enlightenment ideas and made reforms in society |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | wrote "The Social Contract" believed the majority should always work for the common good |
| Isaac Newton | mathematician showed gravity kept planets in line |
| Catherine the Great | Russian ruler who asked for advice of nobles & townpeople |
| Maria Theresa | Austrian ruler improved tax system provided education to children |
| heliocentric | idea that the sun was the center of the Universe |
| Rene Descartes | believed in powerof human reason |
