| A | B |
| A period of new technology and new approaches to seeking knowledge | Scientific Revolution |
| The earth is the center of the universe | Geocentric Theory |
| The sun is the center of the universe | Heliocentric Theory |
| He developed the Scientific Method | Francis Bacon |
| Using observation, logic and reason to develop theories or find answers to questions | Scientific Method |
| This is provable using mathematics or science | Physical Law |
| He developed the laws of Planetary Motion | Johann Kepler |
| He improved the telescope | Galileo |
| He developed the Theory of Gravity | Issac Newton |
| He wrote "Truth Through Reason" | Rene Descartes |
| He developed the barometer | Torricelli |
| The chemistry of the Middles Ages (based on superstitution & magic | Alchemy |
| the 4 Medieval Elements | earth-water-air-fire |
| He was the first to define "elements" | Robert Boyle |
| He discovered the existence of oxygen and invented carbonated drinks | Jason Priestly |
| He is known as "The Father of Modern Chemistry" | Antoine Lavoisier |
| He experimented with lightning | Ben Franklin |
| He depicted the human body accurately | Vesalius |
| He discovered the heart was a pump and how the circulatory system worked | Harvey |
| He discovered the "cell" | Robert Hooke |
| he improved the microscope | van Leeuwenhoek |
| The period of scientific, social and political thought based on logic and reasoning | Age of Reason |
| universal moral law that could be understood by applying reason | Natural Law |
| He believed in an absolute monarchy. He wrote "Leviathan" | Thomas Hobbes |
| He wrote "Treatises of Government" and believed that government is created by the people | John Locke |
| These were created and existed before man created government | Natural Rights |
| The three Natural Rights are | Life - Liberty - Property |
| When the people make an agreement with the government | Social Contract |
| He wrote the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| The opposition to violence or war as a method of satisfying disputes | Pacifism |
| Denouncing organized religion | Deism |
| The effort to use Natural Law and Reason in an effort to understand and improve society | Enlightenment |
| Great thinkers | Philosophes |
| He compiled the first encyclopedia | Denis Diderot |
| He wrote the "Spirit of Laws" - He studied existing governments | Montesquieu |
| The three branches of government are | legislative - judicial - executive |
| legislative branch | makes the laws |
| executive branch | enforces the laws |
| judicial branch | interprets the laws |
| He challenged the idea that everything happens for the best | Voltaire |
| He wrote the "Social Contract" | Rousseau |
| the economic system of free enterprise, private ownership of property and individual profit | capitalism |
| He founded capitalism and wrote "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith |
| The philosophy that deals with univesal spiritual and ethical questions | Metaphysics |
| He began the movement of Methodism | John Wesley |
| Related to the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome | Classicism |
| Writing that uses irony and sarcasm | satire |
| He wrote "Guliver's Travels" | Jonathan Swift |
| He wrote "Robinson Crusoe" | Daniel Defoe |
| He wrote organ music and religious compositions | Bach |
| He wrote the "Messiah" | Handel |
| He wrote symphony music | Haydn |
| He wrote 600 compositions and operas | Mozart |
| The artistic movement celebrating human emotions that had always been ignored | Romanticism |