Pre-AssessmentScientific Revolution and Enlightenment

1. What does the word revolution mean? 2. What was the Scientific Revolution? 3. What is the geocentric theory? 4. What is the heliocentric theory? 5. Who discovered the law of gravity? 6. How did the Catholic Church respond to discoveries during the Scientific Revolution?

7. What is the scientific method?

8. What was the Enlightenment?  9. What does the social contract theory state?

  10. What did Baron de Montesquieu believe when it came to how a government should be set up?

Age of RevolutionsScientific RevolutionEnlightenmentAmerican RevolutionFrench RevolutionLatin American Revolutions

1. How can innovation lead to revolutions?

2. How did new ideas help shape politics and society?

3. How might a nation’s failure to protect citizens’ rights and responsibilities lead to revolution?

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