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SCAVENGER HUNT

World History.

ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Constitutional Rights Foundation, https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-20-2-c-hobbes-locke-montesquieu-and-rousseau-on-government.html

Political Thinkers:

1. Thomas Jefferson used his theories to write the Declaration of Independence?

2. Rousseau argued what about the general will of the people?

3. Montesquieu is best known in America for his belief in government, what did Montesquieu believe concerning government?

Scientific Thinkers: Changing the way we see the Universe

Britannica Encyclopedia, https://www.britannica

Pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment scientists that set the challenge for future

4. The belief the earth is stationary and all heavily bodies revolve around the earth is called?

5. The Egyptian who used spherical trigonometry to first present how our solar system

worked?

Britannica Encyclopedia, https://www.britannica.com/science/Copernican-system

6. Copernicus challenged Ptolemy by stating what?

7. The name of his system became known as the?

History, https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/galileo-galilei

8. Copernicus had his ideas banned by the Church concerning the solar system, and

Pope Paul V summoned Gallio and demanded he do what?

9. What did Galileo’s laws of Motions say?

NASA https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/newtons-laws-of-motion/

10. At age 23, Sir Isaac Newton gave the world what major idea?

11. What happens when an object hits another object with force?

The New Mexico Museum of Space History, https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/johannes-kepler/

12. Which of Kepler’s 3 laws backed up Copernicus and Galileo works