Enlightenment Thinking
Across
- 2. intense loyalty to others who speak your language and/or share your culture
- 6. Agreement between members of a society to cooperate for the collect benefit
- 9. Writer of pamphlet Common Sense
- 13. Philosopher best known for ideas on checks and balances and separation of powers
- 14. Scientist who theorized universal gravity
- 15. The belief that humans are born with certain rights
- 16. Idea that a human's natural instincts govern their reasoning and behavior
- 17. Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights
- 18. The belief that Earth is at the center of the universe
- 19. Wrotes a book on the social contract
- 20. Influential pamphlet in the American Revolution, arguing for independence
Down
- 1. Convention led to advocate for women's rights, participants rewrote a section of the Declaration of Independence
- 3. British female novelist and advocate of women's rights
- 4. A belief that there is a creator (God), but the creator does not interfere in events
- 5. Enlightenment thinker who believed humans needed strict government to prevent chaos
- 7. French playwright best known for writing Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
- 8. Government with a constitution
- 10. The belief that the Sun is at the center of the universe
- 11. Enlightenment thinker best known for Francis Bacon is most famous for his philosophy of science, focusing on inductive reasoning
- 12. Way of thinking that emphasized humans as opposed to divine figures or gods