Homework #8

According to Hobbes, why would people want to live under the rule of an absolute monarch?
Answer: So that they would escape thier selfish and wicked lives.

What important documents reflect the influence of Enlightenment ideas?
Answer: The Bill of Rights.

In your opinion, what are the two most important ideas of the Enlightenment? Support your answers with reasons.
Answer: 1) Women's Equality- Women deserve to be equal,and don't deserve to be treated like objects in terms that they can't go to school,can't vote,etc.
               2) Abolishment of Torture- It's just not human to torture thier own species. Besides, what if the person was guilty for something that they did not commit.

Identify terms

• Enlightenment-When the scientific revolution and reason came into all aspects of society.
• Social Contract-The contract that holds the idea that everyone gives thier rights to a new leader.
• John Locke-A philosopher who critizied the idea of absolute monarchy.
• Natural Rights-The rights(life,liberty, and property)that have to be protected.
• Philosophes-The social critics of thier period.
• Voltaire-A philosopher who wrote over 70 books about politics.
• Montesquieu- A writer who studies political liberty. He is a lawyer and an aristocat.
• Separation of Powers-The three powers(or branches):executive,legislative, or judicial.
• Jean Jacques Rousseau-A philosopher passionate about individual freedom. He was an engraver,music teacher,tutor, and secretary. Believes that women's education is after men's.
• Mary Wollstonecraft-A woman who disagreed with Rousseau's theory.

Homework #5

1)Defining Terms

• Scientific Revolution-The Renaissance had it's ideas evolve.
• Nicholas Copernicus-An astonomer who figured the sun is the center of the universe.
• Heliocentric Theory-The idea that the sun is the center of the universe.
• Johannes Kepler-Brahe's assistant who found out that the planets move in an ovular pattern.
• Galileo Galilei-A scientist who studied motin and discovered the law of the Pendulum.
• Scientific Method-Logical procedure for testing and gathering information.
• Francis Bacon-An english politician and writer who critizied medieval scholars.
• Rene Descartes-A scientist who made analytical geometry,which linked algebra and geometry.
• Isaac Newton-A scientist who figured that all physical objects are affected equally by the same force. 

2)Events that lead to the scientific revolution

• Lands that were inhabited were discovered and opened possibilities that there were so many truths to be discovered.
• The geocentic theory troubled Copernicus, making him study the stars more.
• Galileo studied motion.
• Newton discovered that all physical objects were affected by the same force.

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