Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment

6. Being a legal member of a country with rights and responsibilities.
9. Supporting big or extreme changes to society or government.
11. The idea that the sun is at the center of the solar system, not Earth.
12. A way of thinking that focuses on human potential, achievements, and learning instead of only religion.
13. A period when new scientific ideas and discoveries changed how people understood nature, space, and science.
14. A government ruled by a king or queen.
18. An Enlightenment thinker who believed people have natural rights like life, liberty, and property.

1. A French Enlightenment thinker who studied society, government, and human rights.
2. The movement to end slavery.
3. The idea that people have basic rights just because they are human.
4. An intellectual movement in the 1600s–1700s that focused on reason, individual rights, and questioning government authority.
5. When a powerful country takes control of weaker lands for resources or power.
7. A person from a wealthy, noble, or high social class.
8. A scientist who said the sun, not Earth, was at the center of the solar system.
10. A written plan of government that explains laws and powers.
15. A time in Europe when people began to use logic and science instead of tradition or religion to understand the world.
16. An economic system where people and businesses own property and make profits.
17. A scientist who explained gravity and laws of motion, helping shape modern science.