Test+Review+Questions

1. Trends with regards to the Enlightenment: This question will ask you to understand the ideas leasding to or coming our of the scientific revolution.

2. Which astronomers were Aristolian and which were not?

3. What was the theory of Coernicus?

4. Who developed the theory of inertia?

5. What was key to Newton's system and laws?

6. What institutions existed to promote theoretical science and applied science?

7. What is empiricism?

8. Bacon and Decartes are given credit for what major scientific development?

9. Who was Fontenelle and what did he do?

10. Know the causes of the scietific revolution.

11. Who reduced all substances to "matter" and "mind?"

12. Prior to 1500 under what category would one find Science?

13. Who was first to prove his theories using mathematics?

14. What was Galileo's greatest accomplishment?

15. Why did the enlightenment reach its highest levels in France?

16. List the accomplishments of Catherine the Great.

17. What 17th and 18th century idea would an "elightened monarch" not believe in?

18. How were women in the sciences treated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

19. Who were the leaders of the salons?

20. List the causes of the Scientific Revolution.

21. What was said by John Locke in his essay Concerning Human Understanding?

22. Wat was the reading revolution?

23. Who developed the separation of govermental powers? In waht book?

24. What was Voltaire's overall attitude towards government and leadership?

25. What did D'Holbach write and what did it say?

26. Why was the Encycelopedia written?

27. Who wrote Historical and Critical Dictionary?

28. What amde salons special/different?

29. What was Persian Letters?

30. Trace the developments of serfdom in Austria during the 18th century.

31. What book tracked the nine stages of human development? Who wrote it?

32. List the enlightened policies/accomplishments of Frederick II of Prussia.

33. What did Immanuel Kant fight for?

34. What was the reaction to Joseph II's conversion of labor obligations into cash payments?

35. List the accomplishments of women during the enlightenment.

36. Know the time table of astronomy/belief systems---which came first, who followed?

37. What problem did the Church hve with Copernicus' view of the universe?

38. What was the function of the Royal Society?

39. Which enlightened author was known as the most influencial romantic author?

40. What literature was a part of the illegal book tade in France?

41. What was the partitioning of Poland?

42. List the acheivements of Galileo and rank them.

43. How did Louis XIV's death affect the French parlement?