Revolution/Enlightenment – Flashcards
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A political development that was the result of a gradual rather than revolutionary change?
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English democracy
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Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights both...
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limited the power of the monarchs
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The Magna Carta and the Glorious Revolution and the writings of John Locke all contributed to Great Britain's development of
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Parliamentary democracy
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what is a defining factor of democracy
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citizens are the source of power in the gov
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Which was most valued by European intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment?
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Progress through the use of reason
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Which group expressed the most organized opposition to the scientific method during the 16th and 17th centuries
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Clergy
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intellectuals representative of the enlightenment would most likely have
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believed that natural law gave order to their work
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the fact that the enlightenment closely followed the Scientific Revolution is evidence that
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ideas that developed in one type of activity will affect other aspects of life
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the writers and philosophers of the enlightenment believed that government decisions should be based on laws of
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nature and reason
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John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau would most likely support
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the rights of citizens to decide the best form of government
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What was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution in Europe
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the application of reason and experimentation to political thinking
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Which solution would Baron de Montesquieu offer to avoid the enactment of tyrannical laws
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separating the branches of government
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Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu's writings were made in the Age of
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Enlightenment
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According to Locke, the chief role of the government was to
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protect natural rights
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One contribution that Lock made to Enlightenment philosophy was the idea that
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governments should be baswed on the consent of the people
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Why is enlightenment considered a turning point in world history
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europeans changed their thinking about the role of the government
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Ideas that were central to the scientific revolution
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observation and experimentation
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the best evidence that a nation is a democracy is its provision for
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a gov responsible to the people
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democratic govs protect basic
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civil liberties
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ideals developed in athens of pericles and in republican rome influenced the development of
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parliament in britain
