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Enlightenment DW
the enlightenment
Question | Answer |
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believed the universe was heliocentric | Nicholas Copernicus |
long considered the greatest genius of the Scientific Revolution | Isaac Newton |
created the scientific method | Francis Bacon |
argued that every person was born with a tabala rasa, or blank mind | John Locke |
well known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration | Voltaire |
believed members of a society should be forced to follow a social contract | Jean-Jaques Rousseau |
composer of the messiah | George Frederick Handel |
made Great Britain the world's greatest colonial power | Treaty of Paris in 1763 |
first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state. | France |
created a federal system in which power would be shared between the national government and the state governments | Constitution of the United States of America |