Enlightenment Thinking

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