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The Enlightenment grew out of an earlier movement that saw the universe as orderly and:Read the answer and worked solution →Historians usually place the birthplace of the Enlightenment in:Read the answer and worked solution →Much of the science that fed Enlightenment thought was built on traditions from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Rights possessed by all human beings, such as life and liberty, are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The English philosopher arguing for rights to life, liberty and property was:Read the answer and worked solution →His Second Treatise of Government was published in the year:Read the answer and worked solution →The French thinker who wrote under the pen name Voltaire was born:Read the answer and worked solution →The philosopher whose work centred on the tension between state authority and individual choice was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Irish philosopher who rejected the concept of popular sovereignty was:Read the answer and worked solution →The implicit agreement binding those in a society to its rules is the social:Read the answer and worked solution →A government in which power to govern rests in the hands of the people is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Meeting places in eighteenth-century France that were typically hosted and managed by women were the:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1765 British measure taxing legal documents and printed materials in the colonies was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Parliament repealed that measure in the year:Read the answer and worked solution →Armed conflict opening the American Revolution began in the year:Read the answer and worked solution →The Declaration of Independence was modelled particularly on the social contract theory of:Read the answer and worked solution →The first written constitution of the new United States was the Articles of:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1789 King Louis XVI summoned an assembly of the realm known as the Estates:Read the answer and worked solution →The National Assembly then issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the:Read the answer and worked solution →The writer who in 1791 published a Declaration of the Rights of Woman was Olympe de:Read the answer and worked solution →The period of violent repression beginning in 1793 is known as the Reign of:Read the answer and worked solution →Saint-Domingue supplied Europe with roughly 40 percent of its imported:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the philosophersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the natural rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the revolution gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the history wordsRead the answer and worked solution →America or FranceRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the history wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the yearRead the answer and worked solution →Enlightenment bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The Enlightenment grew out of an earlier movement that saw the universe as orderly and:

  1. Rational
  2. Reversed
  3. Relative
  4. Reduced
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Correct answer: A. Rational

1. The Scientific Revolution came first. 2. It held that nature followed discoverable laws. 3. So the universe was seen as orderly and rational. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 7, Revolutions in Europe and North America._

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Historians usually place the birthplace of the Enlightenment in:

  1. Western Estonia
  2. Western Europe
  3. Western Egypt
  4. Western Ecuador
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Correct answer: B. Western Europe

1. Its inspirations came from around the world. 2. Its intellectual centre, however, was one region. 3. That region is western Europe. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 7, Revolutions in Europe and North America._

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Much of the science that fed Enlightenment thought was built on traditions from the:

  1. Islamic world
  2. Iberian world
  3. Icelandic world
  4. Ionian world
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Correct answer: A. Islamic world

1. Arabic, Indian and Persian treatises shaped European learning. 2. They covered mathematics, medicine and astronomy. 3. That inheritance came from the Islamic world. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 7, Revolutions in Europe and North America._

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