| A | B |
|---|
| Voltaire | satirical philosophe who advocated tolerance and freedom of religion |
| John Locke | political thinker advocating self-government |
| Montesquieu | philosophe who advocated separation of powers |
| Thomas Hobbes | political thinker who argued in favor of strong governments |
| Denis Diderot | edited and published first encyclopedia |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Paris | center of early Enlightenment |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory |
| Galileo Galilei | invented the first telescope |
| Bastille | much hated French prison |
| Enlightenment | time period when people were opening up to new ideas and knowledge |
| Isaac Newton | known as one of the greatest scientists in history |
| gravity | the force that pulls objects in the earth's atmosphere toward the earth |
| Newton inventions | laws of motion, gravity, calculus |
| Rene' Descartes | father of modern philosophy |
| Cogito ergo sum | I think, therefore I am |
| pessimist | someone who believes the worst will happen |
| authoritarian | presented as if from an expert or an authority |
| Montesquieu | wanted a government where limited monarchy with a parliament, against slavery |
| pseudonym | pen name used by author in place of his or her real name |
| limited monarchy | government in which a ruler shares his or her power with another governing body such as parliament |
