Vocab Choice Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. Women's rights activist
- 7. Gatherings where people talk about literature, politics, philosophy, and current events
- 11. The Achievement of new knowledge and questioned the power of absolute monarchies.
- 17. He formulated laws of motion and gravitation
- 18. Concluded that the best form of government was one in which the legislative, executive, and judicial powers were separate
- 19. Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer famous for his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state
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- 1. The man who invented the telescope
- 2. Determined how the world around us works
- 4. French word for "philosopher," and was a word that the French Enlightenment thinkers usually applied to themselves
- 5. Belief in God based on reason rather than revelation
- 6. The attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity
- 7. Was seen as an "occurrence" during which individuals came together and ceded some of their individual rights
- 8. Held that royal power emanated not from divine right but from a social contract
- 9. English philosopher and political theorist
- 10. A style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries
- 12. A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief
- 13. the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe
- 14. A theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System
- 15. Well known for his work On the Social Contract
- 16. Establishing educational reform, championing the arts, and extending Russia's borders