Enlightenment

2. Established the concept of a heliocentric solar system.
5. Believed in rights for women.
7. Made the first microscope and discovered the first bacteria known to man.
9. Punishments should fit crimes; Laws exist to preserve social order.
12. Created the small pox vaccine.
13. Pioneered the use of the scientific method in chemistry.
18. A person who rules with absolute power.
19. The theory that there is an argument between the governing and the governed; The governed will give up some rights and freedoms and the governing will make decisions in the best interest of the people.
20. Belief that the sun is the center of the universe.

1. To know something one did not know before.
3. Parties where people met to discuss new ideas.
4. separation of powers and checks and balances
6. A system in which multiple groups share decision-making power.
7. Believed that governments should follow the social contract and people are born with natural rights.
8. Believed that government should exist because people are born selfish and wicked; governments should follow the social contract
10. People are not truly free as long as there are laws; but since government is needed it should follow the social contract.
11. Helped advance the new approach to developing the scientific method.
14. Belief that the earth is the center of the universe.
15. Discovered that the planets move faster when they get closer to the sun.
16. Freedom of speech and religion.
17. The people who presented new ways of thinking during the enlightenment.