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Age of Reason and French Revolution

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Who formulated a new way of thinking called the scientific method?   Francis Bacon  
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Who was the mathematician that developed the concept of gravity?   Isaac Newton  
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Who believes that all people are immoral and do not have the right to rebel against the government no matter how unjust it may be?   Thomas Hobbes  
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What philosopher said that people have the right to break free of the government if it fails to protect their natural rights?   John Locke  
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When did the Enlightenment occur?   Late 1600s to Mid-1700s  
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Who edited the Encylcopdia?   Denis Diderot  
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What are the Philosophes?   French philosophers, writers, and thinkers of the Enlightenment that spread new ideas  
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Who proposed a more radical democracy with a tyranny of the majority (Paradox:"Must force people to be free.")   Rousseau  
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Who favored emotional and feeling ideas as opposed to reason and science, yet also favored enlightened despotism?   Voltaire  
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What inventor was ahead of his time with human anatomy and was also a famous painter?   Davinci  
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Which colony was able to revolt and overthrow slavery?   Haiti  
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What was the most revolutionary revolution?   The French Revolution  
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Who built the telescope to observe night skies?   Galilei  
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What organization opposed new scientific theories?   The Catholic Church  
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Who discovered blood circulation?   William Harvey  
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