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Unit 9 Assignment – Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

 

Unit Readings:

Western Heritage

     Chapters 14 (skip pp. 526-531) & 18

Modern European History

     Chapter 9 (pp. 122-124, 126-127, 130-132)

     Chapters 11 & 12

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Paragraph Questions - Respond to the following questions in one or more well-written paragraphs that incorporate the terms below. Remember to begin your paragraphs w/ strong topic sentences!

A.  Use a series of drawings and diagrams to depict the evolution from the Ptolemaic conception of the solar system to the heliocentric model in the 16th and 17th centuries, emphasizing the intellectual contributions of the following:.

  1. Ptolemy

  2. Copernicus
  3. Tycho Brahe
  4. Johannes Kepler
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. Sir Isaac Newton
B.     Compare and contrast the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu on human nature and the best form of government.
  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. John Locke
  3. Tabula Rasa
  4. Social Contract
  5. Natural Rights
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. General Will
  8. Montesquieu
  9. Separation of Powers
C. How did the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment affect European conceptions of God and religion?
  1. Sir Isaac Newton
  2. Blaise Pascal
  3. Baruch Spinoza
  4. Voltaire
  5. Deism

D.  Compare and contrast the ideas of Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes on the best means to acquire knowledge and attain truth.

  1. Francis Bacon
  2. Inductive Method
  3. Rene Descartes
  4. Deductive Method
  5. "Cogito, ergo sum."
E.  Define the term "philosophe" and explain how the following works and persons typified the ideals of the philosophes.

1.  Encyclopedia

2.  Cesare Beccaria

3.  "Laissez-Faire"

4.  Physiocrats

5.  Adam Smith & The Wealth of Nations

F.  Explain what an "enlightened despot" was and use specific policies and actions of Joseph II, Frederick the Great, and Catherine the Great to illustrate how they were typical enlightened despots

1.  Enlightened Despotism

2.  Joseph II

3.  Frederick the Great

4.  Catherine the Great

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