Enlightenment Review

2. The era leading into the Enlightenment.
5. For the Enlightenment writers, logic and ____________ were the keys to understanding human society.
6. Wrote The Spirit of Laws. Believed that government should be in pieces.
7. Thomas Hobbes’ lived through this event in his country that impacted his view of humans.
8. In Europe before the Enlightenment, this institution had authority over the theories of the universe.
11. Englishman who wrote Leviathan? Had a pessimistic view of human nature.
12. French term meaning, ‘lovers of wisdom.’ Another name for a French Enlightenment Thinker.
13. Social gathering, informal, philosophes and others gathered to exchanged ideas
15. Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes and others exchanged ideas.
16. Model with the Sun at the center.
17. Restriction on access to ideas and information
18. an agreement in which people gave up freedom to the government to avoid chaos
19. This man believed that all people deserve the right to Life, liberty, and property.
20. Denis Diderot is well-known for his creation of this one-stop source of knowledge.

1. Model with the Earth at the center.
3. privileges that belongs to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property
4. Satirist who targeted the Catholic Church and the French monarchy/government.
9. In Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu discussed this idea, which we call Checks and Balances in the USA.
10. Polish astronomer who concluded that the sun is the center of the universe around which Earth and the other planets revolve.
14. Economist, masterpiece was An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nation, argued for free markets with little to do with the government, very influential