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When was the scientific Revolution |
1500s and 1600s |
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What did the Scientific Revolution introduce? |
The scientific method |
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When was the vaccine for smallpox created |
1700s |
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What is natural law |
Rules discovered by reason |
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The scientific method sparked a another revolution called what? What was it? |
A revolution in thinking, The Enlightenment |
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Argued people are brutish by nature and need to be controlled an absolute monarchy |
Thomas Hobbes |
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Who wrote the Leviathan and when |
Thomas Hobbes 1651 |
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Believed people give up their freedom to government on return for an organized society |
Thomas Hobbes |
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Believed people have the rite to life, property and liberty. That people are reasonable and moral |
John Locke |
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Who wrote two treatises of government and when |
John Locke 1690 |
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Rejected any absolute monarchy believing the best government had limited power |
John Locke |
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Who proposed the ideas of separations of powers and checks and balances as a way to protect liberty |
Baron de Montesquieu |
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Who wrote the spirit of laws |
Baron de Montesquieu 1748 |
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Who exposed abuses of power and defended the principle of freedom of speech |
Voltaire |
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Who wrote the Encyclopedia |
Voltaire |
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Who believed that the good of a the community should be placed above individual interests |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Other thinkers, including who, focused on using natural laws for economic reform |
Adam Smith |
