Question

1.- How were the scientific ideas of early thinkers passed on to later generations?

2.- Why did European ideas about the universe change during the 1500s and 1600s?

3.- Which discoveries did scientists make during the 1600s and 1700s?

4.- How did Europeans of the 1600s and 1700s develop new ways of gaining knowledge?

5.- How did European thinkers apply scientific ideas to the government?

6.- How did French thinkers influence Europe during the Enlightenment?

7.- How did European monarchs model their countries on Enlightenment ideas?

Answer 1

1. The scientific idea was to question everything’s and to question things we don’t know

2. They took the ideas of science and questioned what they didn’t know. Previously the unknown was answer by saying it was magic or it was by god

3. Heliocentric theory, the human body such as the heart and how the veins work, new medication

4. Through the printing press which published more books was well as coffee houses and salons.

5. They used the idea of question everything to question absolute monarchy’s. So they questioned the role of kings and social classes. Writers like Lock and Rossuo would theorize popular sovereignty.

6. Rossuo came up with the theory of popular sovereignty. This would lead to absolute monarchs not caring about there people so the idea of popular sovereignty was the influence for the French Revolution which ended with Napoleon so he spread those ideas through Europe so eventually most countries would experience revolution

8. Popular sovereignty where they out they out the will of the people before their selfs.